Merchant - Temporary

**Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX**:

- As a Merchant, you create a profitable Women’s product line that aligns with the overall Merchandising strategy and supports our company goals, consumer needs, and focuses on brand opportunities to bring innovative solutions to market.

**Meet Your Future Team**:

- The Women’s Merchandising team is responsible for delivering the seasonal product line that supports the overall Design creative direction while driving company sales, gross margin, and inventory productivity goals in both our wholesale and vertical channels. This high performing team works closely with the Design and Development teams to create future seasonal line plans, as well as Merchandise Planning and Allocations (MP&A) teams to maximize in-season sales performance.

**If you were a Merchant now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing**:

- Executing the Merchandising strategy across all business units for your dedicated categories and classes
- Partnering with Merchandising and Planning teams across all global business channels to execute on your dedicated product categories to deliver on our 10-year brand vision in addition to sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals
- Managing the product lifecycle for each model, from development to commercialization, to eventual redesign, replacement or retirement
- Partnering with overall strategic direction on seasonal selling plans and supporting our overall strategies (grow, diminish, hold, exit, launch) (sell-thru vs sell-in)
- Collaborating closely with international buying teams to ensure that regional needs are incorporated into the global line plan
- 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
- Offering strategies that are informed by rigorous data-analysis
- Researching and analyzing the global marketplace to identify 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 that aligns with the category strategy, seasonal story-telling focus, and brand vision
- Developing and delivering product presentations for key calendar touchpoints that inspire and deliver the critical information to our internal stakeholders, ensuring successful development of seasonal assets and plans
- Owning global Go-To-Market (GTM) product knowledge and providing global commercial teams and partners with sell-in tools and product information
- Supporting training and mentorship on the team
- 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**:

- Collaborating with the Design and Development teams to create a lineplan that delivers double digit sales growth in Women’s, while delivering new and innovative product launches that support our guests getting outside and living it
- Creating strong cross-functional partnerships with Planning and Allocations team counterparts, to help understand current business performance and leverage insights to guide and inform future range plans

**Are you our next Merchant?**:

- You have 5+ years’ experience in Merchandising, Product Development, Wholesale and/or Retail Buying roles
- You have strong organizational skills and excellent attention to detail
- You have effective and efficient time management skills, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication and presentation skills
- You have a strong 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 have strong leadership and teamwork skills to help facilitate work across many different internal departments and external key accounts and vendors
- You demonstrate the ability to work well across diverse teams and departments to establish consensus or drive solutions
- You are proficient 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 passionate about sustainability, being outside, and the collective power of humanity
- 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 well
- 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