Product Line Manager, Veilance – Men’s

Department: Merchandising

Reports to: Senior Product Line Manager 1

Location: North Vancouver, BC

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX

As a Product Line Manager, Veilance – Men’s, you create profitable, global product line assortments, for the Veilance, Men’s product category to align with the overall Merchandising strategy and support our company goals, consumer needs, and focus on brand opportunities to bring innovative solutions to market. In this role, you will support cross-functionally across Design and Product Development teams to bring the product vision to life through future seasonal line plans, while also partnering with Costing and Sourcing upstream and with Merchandise Planning and Allocations (MP&A) to maximize in-season sales performance.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Meet Your Future Team

The Veilance team is made up of innovative problem solvers who thrive on collaboration. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to understanding future needs in city environments - then design, test, and validate high-end product solutions. The Product Line Management (PLM) team is responsible for determining and delivering the right product, in the right places, at the right time, delivering product lines that support the overall Design creative direction, while driving company sales, gross margin, and inventory productivity goals, on a global scale.

If you were a Product Line Manager, Veilance – Men’s now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Executing the Product Line strategy across all business units for the Veilance dedicated categories and classes
• Writing and presenting product briefs for each new product that aligns with the category strategy, seasonal story-telling focus, and brand vision
• Partnering with Design, Development and Finance teams to ensure each product with your line achieve the brief – from feature set to fit to margin
• Partnering with Planning teams across all global business channels to execute on your dedicated product categories to deliver on our 5-year brand vision in addition to sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals
• Managing the global 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)
• 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
• 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 and Brand teams and partners with selling tools and product information
• Supporting training and mentorship on the team
• Travelling quarterly to assess market landscape and retail stores
• 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, while delivering new and innovative product launches
• Creating strong cross-functional partnerships with Commercial, 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 Product Line Manager, Veilance – Men’s?

• You have 5+ years’ experience in the apparel, fashion or luxury product markets, in a retail, customer service, merchandising, product development, wholesale and/or retail buying roles
• You have strong knowledge of sell through, calculating cost of goods, and the open to buy process
• You have strong organizational skills and excellent attention to detail
• You 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 have a proven track record of partnering across diverse teams and departments to establish consensus or drive solutions
• You have a strong understanding of the premium technical apparel market and the outdoor industry, especially Veilance, and how its products combine technical performance with everyday urban use
• 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

Compensation

The salary range for this role is CAD$82,000-CAD$103,000.