Senior Product Line Manager 1 - Women's Trail
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- North Vancouver, BC
- $108,000-135,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Creating successful short-term merchandising strategies (1-2-year plans) across all business units for your categories and product areas
- Building and overseeing the successful execution of the merchandising strategy for your product categories
- Mentoring, training and supporting the Associate PLMs and PLMS across your team
- Delivering on our 5-year brand vision by hitting global sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals through partnership with the Merchants, across all countries and business channels
- Determining and managing the product lifecycle for each model, from development to commercialization, to eventual redesign, replacement, or retirement
- Partnering on overall strategic direction on seasonal selling plans and supporting our overall strategies (grow, diminish, hold, exit, launch) (sell-thru vs sell-in)
- Providing a global product framework and assortment structure that guides merchant execution within retail, wholesale key accounts and digital channels to maximize sales, profit and global brand positioning
- Researching and analyzing the global marketplace, identifying key consumer and market insights to inform the concept work and development of new products and the range
- Writing and presenting product briefs for each new product category strategy, seasonal story-telling focus, and brand vision
- Developing and sustaining a close relationship with Design and Development teams during the seasonal design process to ensure products are aligned with the briefs proposed
- Developing and delivering product presentations for key calendar touchpoints that inspire and deliver the critical information to our internal stakeholders to ensure successful development of seasonal assets and plans
- Maintaining effective partnerships with the Visual Merchandising, Design, Development, Brand Marketing and Colour teams to ensure seasonal strategies come to life in all channels and regions
- Owning the global go-to-market product knowledge and providing Global Commercial teams and partners with sell-in tools and product information consistently across all channels
- Upholding Fair Labor Association's Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing, throughout the Arc'teryx supply chain
- Partnering with the Design and Development teams to bring new seasonal product solves to life for the Core Mountain Athlete
- Exploring new product categories to rounds out the complete mountain kit for our guests
- Maximizing the efficiency and profitability of the global assortment across all regions and points of ecommerce and retail distribution
- You have 5-8+ years' experience in outdoor retail or customer service, merchandising, product development, wholesale and/or retail buying roles, and 2+ years' experience leading a team or a function
- You have excellent knowledge sell through, calculating cost of goods, and the open to buy process
- You are highly organized, able to effectively manage your time, and you possess strong analytical, presentation and communication skills
- You have strong leadership and teamwork skills, able to facilitate work across many different internal departments and external key accounts and vendors
- You are a creative and strategic thinker, an 'influencer', a consensus builder, and excellent team player
- You excel at partnering across diverse teams and departments to establish consensus or drive solutions
- You have a proven track record in developing and leading a team in the execution of a multi-year business strategy
- You have an excellent understanding of the active apparel market within the outdoor industry, and the key outdoor activities we make product for
- You have an excellent understanding of the design and development process
- You are excellent in the use of Adobe and Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel)
- You are willing and able to travel as required (trade shows, key dealer presentations, key vendor meetings, core consumer events, etc.)
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
- You are highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
- You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
- 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