Regional Merchandise Planner presso Arc'teryx

Department: Merchandise Planning & Allocations  Reports to: Manager, Merchandise Planning Location: North Vancouver, BC         Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX: As a Regional Merchandise Planner, 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. 

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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