Hybrid Product Line Manager – Women’s Trail

at Arc'teryx Equipment

• Job title: Product Line Manager – Women’s Trail
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: CA$82,000 - CA$102,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, North Vancouver, Canada

About the role

• Product Line Manager for Women’s Trail at Arc’teryx, creating profitable product line assortments. This role manages the product lifecycle and works with Design and Finance teams to ensure alignment with strategies.

Responsibilities

• Creating profitable, global product line assortments for the Women’s Trail product category
• Executing the Product Line strategy across all business units for Women’s Run and Trail product categories
• 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 Merchandising and 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 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)
• Contributing to documenting best practices and creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• 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 with training and mentorship initiatives across the team; partnering with the Associate PLM on daily operations
• Travelling for market visit and athlete summits as required (likely twice a year)
• Upholding Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing, throughout the Arc’teryx supply chain

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in Outdoor Retail, Merchandising, Product Development, Wholesale and/or Retail Buying roles
• Strong knowledge of sell through, calculating cost of goods, and the open to buy process
• Can manage a large portfolio of models (40+) and a high articles count
• Skilled in retail and merchandising math
• Strong organizational skills and excellent attention to detail
• Effectively manage time, and possess strong analytical, presentation and communication skills
• Strong leadership and teamwork skills, able to facilitate work across many different internal departments and external key accounts and vendors
• Proven track record of partnering across diverse teams and departments to establish consensus or drive solutions
• Strong understanding of the active apparel market within the outdoor industry, and the key outdoor activities we make product for
• Excellent understanding of the design and development process
• Excellent in the use of Adobe and Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel)
• Willing and able to travel as required (trade shows, key dealer presentations, key vendor meetings, core consumer events, etc.)
• Proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
• Highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
• Effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
• Inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
• Seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
• Passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it.