Job Description

North Vancouver, BC (Corporate) /

Product - Merchandise Planning & Allocations /

Full-time

/ Hybrid

Your Opportunity at ARC\'TERYX:

As a Global Planning Analyst, you play an important role in the creation and alignment of processes, tools, strategies, accessibility and communication across the Merchandise Planning & Allocations (MP&A) team. You work as the MP&A data scientist to find optimisations to improve the Return on Investment (ROI) across a variety of portfolios.

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

Meet Your Future Team:

The Merchandise Planning & Allocation team is a cross functional group whose focus is to continuously drive sales and margin, while mitigating inventory risks by finding the balance, between the right product, at the right quantity, in the right place, at the right time.

If you were a Global Planning Analyst now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Supporting the creation, data structure, consolidation, and communication of our transition to an OpenToBuy (OTB) planning methodology
• Providing regular, standardized reports on our current and future omnichannel inventory pool to support Merchandise Planning, Allocations, Merchant, Retail, and Ecommerce teams
• Monitoring omnichannel inventory availability with the goal of quickly flagging unexpected stockouts, investigating their cause, and pursuing solutions with cross functional teams
• Working with the Marketing and Merchandise Planning teams to balance the inventory needs of marketing initiatives, our own Direct to Consumer (DTC) channels, and wholesale partners
• Creating reproducible and scalable tools to assist with all functions within MP&A in efficiency and cross-functional alignment
• Collaborating with the Merchandising, Commercial and Supply Chain teams to gain an understanding of the business at both a strategic and tactical level
• Providing the MP&A team with routine and ad hoc reporting requests, with the goal of streamlining, consolidating and automating communications
• Driving actions to maintain optimal inventory coverage across all regions, channels, and order-types

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

• Working closely with merchandise planners to improve forecast accuracy at model, article and SKU level
• Collaborating with the Global Commercial team in the sales forecasting process to capture all necessary information that may impact sales performance or trends to drive forecast accuracy improvement
• Collaborating with Supply Chain and Logistics teams to adjust transit methods and redirect inventory to maximize fulfillment and profitability
• Using all current known statistical forecasting methodology and improving on existing processes whenever possible
• Auditing multiple data sets and reports to ensure accuracy, validity and data integrity
• Creating multi-scenario plans on pricing, margin, and distribution to support the Merchant team\'s brand vision and overall company EBIT

Are you our next Global Planning Analyst?

• You have a University degree in math, economic, statistics, finance, Business or equivalent
• You have a minimum of 3 years of sales forecasting, demand planning, retail buying or supply planning experience
• You have outstanding analytical abilities, combined with a strong business acumen
• You have the ability to master the numbers as well as relating data in a meaningful way to others, specifically to Global Commercial team
• You have strong attention to detail, the ability to work with a high degree of ambiguity and a high level of comfort in working with large quantities of data
• You have advanced Excel skills
• You have excellent verbal and communication skills
• You have strong organizational skills
• You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
• You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
• You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions using keen business acumen and priority judgement, 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

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.

All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.

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