Vice President, Product Creation Operations

**Department**: Merchandising

**Reports to**: Chief Merchandising Officer

**Location**:North Vancouver, BC

**Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX**:
As Vice President, Product Creation Operations, you provide strategic and operational leadership in the execution of Arc’teryx product creation strategy. You will develop and lead your product operations teams and drive the creation, development, and execution of the product creation process. In partnership with design, development, product management, commercialization, planning, allocation, and sourcing leadership, you drive the strategic execution to optimize a high performing cross functional product creation team.

**Meet your Future Team**:
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The Product Operations team optimizes the intersection of product, supporting through cross-functional teams to improve alignment, communication, and processes around the product. We build a foundation for excellence through reinforcing product strategy with metrics, infrastructure, business processes, best practices, tools, budgeting and reporting.

**If you were the Vice President, Product Creation Operations now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing**:
- Building a high performing team to create and implement a compelling and innovative world class product creation strategy
- Ensuring the Product, Creative, and Supply Chain teams have clarity of timelines and deliverables against our go-to-market calendar, while championing a culture of continuous challenge, improvement and growth
- Liaising with business analysts and systems architects within functional teams to ensure current and future solutions are systematically aligned with future business processes and capabilities.
- Building, coaching and leading high performing team members to enable the execution of the product vision through the Product Creation calendar. Equip your team with clear goals and expectations, deadlines, tools, and deliverables
- Collaborating with and supporting Leadership on identifying areas of process improvement, business calendar and team structure requirements
- Leading the team of, Product Creation Operations to ensure all product team leads to ensure they have the resources according to project requirements, balancing seasonal and concept deliverables in close alignment with Development, Design, Product Management, and Sourcing
- Identifying opportunities for others to lead and mentor team members
- Partnering with SVP, Process Operations for budget planning, tracking and reporting and identifying budget allocation gaps across cross-functional creation teams
- Upholding Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing, throughout the Arc’teryx supply chain

**Are you our next Vice President, Product Creation Operations?**:
- You have 15+ years’ experience in product creation, including 8+ years in a leadership role, with a complete understanding of the product lifecycle process
- You have a proven track record in leading the execution of business strategy
- You have a proven ability to influence and collaborate with a group of cross-functional stakeholders
- You have strong business acumen, with the ability to lead in a complex matrix business environment
- You have proven people leadership skills and the ability to build, coach and guide a diverse and high performing team
- You set a clear vision, align your team around common objectives, and foster commitment to these objectives
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
- You remain 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 (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

$216,000 - $270,000 a year

A reasonable estimate of the pay range is CAD$216,000 - CAD$270,000 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.

**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.

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