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Director, Merchandising – Global Footwear
full timePortland, Oregon
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AT A GLANCE
MerchandisingDirector levelFull Time
Your opportunity at Arc’teryx: As the Director, Merchandising – Global Footwear, you contribute in defining the future of our footwear strategy, creating consumer-centric, industry-leading products and stories. You play a lead role in translating marketplace insights into product
About the role
Your opportunity at Arc’teryx:
As the Director, Merchandising – Global Footwear, you contribute in defining the future of our footwear strategy, creating consumer-centric, industry-leading products and stories. You play a lead role in translating marketplace insights into products that meets and exceeds the needs of our guest, elevates brand positioning and delivers the financial and strategic objectives of Arc’teryx. You lead a seamless footwear product creation process, integrated within the brand, guiding the product from vision to strategy and execution.
This role is based out of our Portland office and is expected to be performed on site.
Meet your future team:
The Arc’teryx team creates innovative, beautiful product that exceeds the core mountain athlete needs in the outdoors across climbing, hiking, and trail running. We are builders, problem solvers and passionate outdoor enthusiasts. Fueled by curiosity, we take an immersive approach to identifying our athlete’s future needs then build, test, and validate products that solve for real functional challenges. We are passionate collective with a focus on collaborative teamwork, and our vision is to redefine the industry.
Responsibilities
- Developing and driving long-term merchandising strategies for Footwear, realizing the creative vision to bring our footwear product to market
- Leading a collaborative team through complex processes and fostering an environment rooted in respect, stability and innovation
- Partnering with the Regional Merchandising and Product triad teams in developing assortments that exceeds our athlete’s and consumer’s needs, are aligned to global brand strategic initiatives and achieve short and long term KPIs and financial goals
- Leading the marketplace insights process in partnership with Regional teams, harmonizing feedback to inform short- and long-term product decisions
- Owning the seasonal color briefing process in partnership with product director
- Owning the end to end footwear product Go To Market (GTM) process in partnership with PLM, Commercial, Brand and Planning teams
- Understanding and leveraging the competitive landscape, inclusive of product, distribution, market share and influences the line with these insights
- Facilitating content and product plans to support initiatives in Sales, Brand and Retail teams
- Participating in broader organizational Footwear strategy and planning, beyond the footwear category into other product types
- Travelling regularly as required
Benefits
- Vision
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