Senior Raw Materials Developer, Veilance

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:   As a SeniorMaterials Developer Veilance, you are a subject matter expert focused on our future natural materials. You are a team lead, and your expertise will enable you to serve as a guide for other team members and cross functional partners to deliver operational excellence, while stretching into special projects with cross functional teams. You will have the opportunity to develop best in class textiles that significantly impact the success of our Veilance collection and preferred material targets. You will learn alongside our industry partners through hands on experience. Your focus will be on building a high performance toolbox of premium natural and synthetic textiles, with sharp on-time delivery , driving the Veilance product and brand forward.    This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.    Meet Your Future Team:    The Raw Materials Development (RMD) Team commercializes seasonal performance textiles and trims that exceeds the industry standard. We create a toolbox inservice to each product category, made of innovative materials that can ultimately become brand icons for many years to come. Our success comes from our knowledge, our standards of excellence and delivering on-time material solutions, alongside our supply chain partners.  If you were the Senior Materials Developer now, here are some of the core day-to-day activities:

Concepting and developing future natural textiles of cotton, silk, linen, wool that creates a competitive advantage in the luxury space for Veilance

Providing a point of view on material design attributes such as surface, hand, drape

Interfacing with Merchandising, Design and to meet their creative vision and goals, and articulate opportunities and gaps within the toolbox

Sourcing and developing best in class materials from novelty fiber, yarn and finishes in alignment to the Veilance materials roadmap;

Communicating and providing materials expertise and commercialization timelines to cross-functional teams and partners across the business

Demonstrating an understanding of cross functional roles and accountabilities including Design, Merch, Product Development, Wear Testing, RM Sourcing and Color Ops

Mastering the business of our material toolbox in order to effectively drive decisions, and problem solve for cross functional toolbox requests

Building knowledge and skills of the greater Raw Materials Development team, guiding on-time commercialization and material separation in the market

Identifying and leveraging innovation opportunities for high performance, durable and technically feasible materials, and manufacturing

Evaluating the technical capabilities of suppliers and collaborate with Raw Materials Sourcing to stage commercialization with our mill partners

Working with our sustainability teams to meet preferred material targets

Assessing risks and effectively communicating to leadership and senior leadership around material development status  

Traveling to global tradeshows and mill partners to build key partnerships and explore newness

Testing and evaluating materials using Arc'teryx custom and industry standard lab testing, including assisting with management of any materials-specific end use field testing program

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

Pursuing material trademarks with brand partners

Evaluating results of development initiatives to assess for performance and commercial/production feasibility

Developing a thorough understanding of our business priorities in order to focus our developments to deliver against short and long-term needs, while contributing ideas beyond your specific category

Playing a lead role in cross-functional stage-gate meetings and can represent the function with confidence

Planning and leading RMD team meetings

Are you our next Senior Materials Developer, Veilance?

You have 5+ years of apparel/equipment industry experience related to textiles and other materials for luxury brands

You have a degree or diploma in Materials Science, Textile Technology, Product or Textile Design or equivalent industry experience

You understand the end-to-end RMD commercialization process and bring best practices for on time delivery  

You have a thorough understanding of trims and textile manufacturing, including dying, finishing, printing, molding, etc

You have an in-depth knowledge of performance knit, woven, waterproof breathable, and composite textiles

You have previous materials laboratory testing experience You are proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and PLM systems

You have the physical ability to handle small boxes and rolls of fabric, etc

You are able to travel internationally, as required

You display strong interpersonal skills with a focus on diplomacy and problem solving

You are passionate about coaching and fostering a positive team environment

You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration with multiple teams

You have strong organizational skills with the ability to balance multiple tasks within tight deadlines

You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity

You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement

You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right

Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it