Department: Merchandise Planning & Allocations
Reports to: Manager, Merchandise Planning
Location: North Vancouver, BC
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As a Regional Merchandise Planner on the Veilance team, you build and execute
long-term, seasonal, and in-season merchandise planning strategies that support
the channel’s financial and consumer objectives. You develop and own inventory
strategies for specific product portfolios globally. You balance your decisions
based on the Merchant intent, sales forecast, revenue expectations, and supply
chain capabilities to support our overall business plan. You drive the
improvement of product availability for an exceptional guest experience, while
minimizing excess inventories.
This role is primarily 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 Merchandise Planning & Allocation (MP&A) team is a cross functional group
whose focus is to continuously drive sales and margin while mitigating inventory
risks. We work to find the balance between the right product, at the right
quantity, in the right place, at the right time.
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If you were in the Regional Merchandise Planner role now, here are some of the
core activities you would be doing:
- Building top-down multi channel Pre-season merchandise plans by region,
market, gender, category that support our Strategic Business Plan(SBP) growth
strategies
- Owning the reconciliation of bottoms-up merchandise/buying plans back up to
finance budgets
- Partnering with the merchant team to develop and communicate an assortment
strategy that considers opportunities by model/SKU, region, gender and
category and multi channel opportunities
- Developing and implementing sales solutions for inventory optimization
through allocation and markdown recommendations
- Performing in season analyses to ensure that there is enough product
available to meet stretch sales targets and merchandise standards, and
communicating to the appropriate teamswhen deviations occur
- Maximizing sales by understanding sales trends and opportunities; planning
SKU level assortment and revising in-season plans for sales and profitability
while maintaining healthy sell-thru and managing Open to Buy (OTB)
- Controlling seasonal flow strategies by collaborating with the Allocations
Team
- Identifying product opportunities and/or risks with your portfolio and
providing recommendations to the inventory and exit strategy team for review
and actioning
- Analyzing the historical data, trending information and other available data
on product, country, region and channel to develop and maintain an accurate
forecast at SKU level by season, period and beyond
- Owning the forecast accuracy and its continuous improvement for the
responsible portfolio
- Supporting inventory requirements to achieve revenue expectations targets per
region, channel, and order type while minimizing global excess inventory
- Collaborating with the MerchandisingTeam on future product launch preliminary
forecasts
- Collaborating with the Supply Planning team to confirm supply availability to
meet demand projections and adjust the forecast as needed in consideration of
supply chain constraints while minimizing or eliminating negative business
impacts
- Upholding Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles
of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing, throughout the Arc’teryx supply chain
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Participating in merchandise planning improvement projects and initiatives as
they arise
- Supporting in streamlining and building efficiencies into the planning
process
- Participating in seasonal assortment reviews and seasonal buy reviews
- Working closely with other supply chain and product teams on inventory
strategies as well as monitoring/tracking various demand planning factors
that impact product availability
- Supporting our End-to-End planning process with user testing
Are you our next Regional Merchandise Planner?
- You have a University degree in business, math, economics, statistics, or
another relevant subject, or equivalent experience
- You have 4+ years of experience in merchandise planning or inventory
management in a vertical retail business
- You have previous experience in a Direct-To-Consumer capacity (retail or
ecommerce)
- You have strong understanding and experience with Open to Buy strategy
- You have proven experience creating and analyzing reports and have a high
level of comfort working with large quantities of data
- You are a self-starter who takes initiative and ownership of your business
and is comfortable managing multiple deadlines
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing
solutions
- You have a high level of business acumen
- You have advanced skills in Excel, along with experience with Power Query and
Power Pivot
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- You can balance autonomy and collaboration
- You seek the best (but 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
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$82,000 - $112,000 a year
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Equal Opportunity
Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of
inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected.
We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do
so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance.
Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while
also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe
inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity
and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.
All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and
fair treatment in alignment with our values.
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