Merchandise Planner

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Department: Merchandise, Demand, and Inventory Planning Capability Area: Global Merchandise Planning Location: North Vancouver Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:As a Merchandise Planner at Arc’teryx,

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Global Merchandise Planning owns the Merchandise Financial Plan across all channels and regions, setting sales, margin, and inventory targets, building global line architecture, and reconciling the Merchandise Financial Plan against Finance plans. The team defines global Open-to-Buy standards and inventory management policies, drives category hind sighting and business reviews, and partners with Finance and regional planning teams to maintain accountability to committed plans and drives consistency in merchandise planning processes across regions.

Owning seasonal and annual merchandise financial plans for your assigned category, including sales, margin, and inventory, and tracking performance to targets

Managing Global OTB across mid-term and long-term horizons, reconciling bottom-up demand plans to merchandise financial plans

Partnering with Global Merchandising to develop assortment strategies that balance category growth with inventory productivity

Analyzing sell-through, margin, and inventory performance and bringing clear, actionable recommendations to your manager and cross-functional partners

Tracking assortment and line plan architecture targets and identifying opportunities within your category

Developing a stronger category point of view that drives more proactive recommendations on assortment, inventory positioning, and OTB

Contributing to hindsight and postmortem analysis that sharpens how the team tracks and forecasts category performance season over season

You have a bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or a related field

You have 3-5+ years of experience in Merchandise Planning or Demand Planning, preferably in a global consumer goods or apparel environment

You have experience in category forecasting, OTB and inventory planning, and margin and profitability analysis, with experience with global and regional nuances

You have experience managing assortment and line plan architecture targets and understand how product structure connects to financial outcomes

You bring strong retail math fluency and solid data analytics capability, including the ability to conduct postmortem analysis and translate findings into forward-looking recommendations

You are a strong collaborator and build productive partnerships with cross-functional teams

You communicate your analysis and recommendations with clarity

You are commercially minded, identify opportunities within your category, and can drive strategic plans for your area through data-led performance tracking

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