Fit & Pattern Specialist - Temporary
6 months ago
**Department**: Product Creation Development
**Reports to**:Manager, Fit & Pattern
**Location**:North Vancouver, BC
**Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX**:
- As a Fit & Pattern Specialist - Temporary, you partner with Product Development Teams to proactively manage fit and patterning guidance, communicating recommendations to ensure a consistent level of quality, fit, and performance in product.
**Meet Your Future Team**:
- We are an innovative team of creatives, comprised of product developers, designers, patternmakers, cutters, and sewers, who collaborate cross-functionally to craft and develop best-in-class ideas and bring technical products to life.
**If you were the Fit & Pattern Specialist - Temporary now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing**:
- Leading the Fit and Pattern Block program, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure fit and layering theory is in alignment with guest and brand needs
- Collaborating with Design and Development teams to maintain the existing blocks and develop new blocks for seasonal and trend requirements
- Facilitating regular communication with Development teams to ensure consistent methods for patterning and new technical construction are observed
- Educating and supporting development teams on the blocks, fit theory and grading considerations across all product categories
- Supporting the communications between Merchandising, Compliance and Brand Marketing teams to ensure clear guest messaging on fit, sizing specs and layering approach is universally translated
- Supporting the Merchandising team in building size ranges and size equivalents in the system
- Supporting Design and Development teams to problem solve and evaluate consistency of fit in products, providing guidance and support for spec accuracy
- Partnering with Design and Product Development leaders to identify patternmaker education and training needs; developing and facilitating training programs
- Leveraging 3D modeling software and tension mapping to explore drafting theories with Advanced Concepts, Design, and Development teams
- Providing expert guidance of body shape and size for target market and regional variations
- Ensuring fit models and mannequins appropriately represent target figures
- 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**:
- Working closely with Design and Merchandising teams to create a strategic plan for fit extensions across all product categories
- Working closely with Design to identify new product opportunities and create blocks
- Working on the evolution of fit and fit consistency across all product categories
**Are you our next Fit & Pattern Specialist - Temporary?**:
- You have 7+ years’ experience in production patternmaking, grading, and fitting
- You have an Undergraduate Degree in apparel design or other relevant field, equivalent industry training/certification or related business experience
- You have expert level knowledge of sizing, fitting and body shapes globally
- You have a strong knowledge of garment construction and CAD patternmaking
- You have intermediate to advanced skills in Microsoft Office
- You are fluent in English and have exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written
- You have an extreme attention to detail
- You have strong interpersonal skills
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
- You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
- You drive breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
- Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
$80,000 - $100,000 a year
- A reasonable estimate of the pay range is CAD $80,000 - CAD $100,000 at the time of this posting. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors such as job-related skills, relevant experience, education and/or training.
- Please note that the range details above reflect the base pay only and does not include our competitive bonus program and benefits that we offer.
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