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Senior Director, Sourcing - Hong Kong Sourcing Office

Hong KongFull-timesenior

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Department: Supply Chain Reports to: Vice President, Sourcing Location: Hong Kong Your opportunity at ARC’TERYX: As the Senior Director, Sourcing in Hong Kong Sourcing Office, you will lead and elevate our Asia-based sourcing operations, serving as the regional anchor for supplier engagement and…

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Department: Supply Chain

Reports to: Vice President, Sourcing

Location: Hong Kong

Your opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Senior Director, Sourcing in Hong Kong Sourcing Office, you will lead and elevate our Asia-based sourcing operations, serving as the regional anchor for supplier engagement and execution of global sourcing objectives. You will be responsible for translating corporate sourcing objectives into actionable sourcing plans, delivering supplier performance, buy-readiness, and operational excellence. Your leadership will be instrumental in driving agility, innovation, and cost efficiency across our vendor network, while upholding sustainability and compliance standards. This role is pivotal in bridging global strategy with in-region execution, enabling a resilient and responsive supply chain that supports our growth and brand integrity.

Meet Your Future Team:

We are a high-performing and versatile team of problem solvers and process innovators dedicated to bringing design to life and maintaining our brand integrity. We embrace and live our brand values and are passionate about innovation.

The Sourcing Team builds and executes a sustainable global sourcing strategy that enables us to deliver exceptional products at the right place, with the right quality and cost, and on time. You will collaborate internally with Product Development, Commercialization, Finance, Raw Materials, Quality, Planning, and Sustainability, as well as externally with our vendor partners to execute our strategy.

Building, leading, and mentoring a high performing Sourcing team, fostering core competencies and capabilities in delivering a world class supply chain

Representing the region in executive-level planning and decision making

Aligning regional strategy with business, global sourcing and supply chain goals

Overseeing and optimizing supplier relationship and performance through direct engagement, collaboration and partnership

Contributing to and implementing our global sourcing strategy with the right manufacturing capacity and capability to drive our business growth and delivers on cost, quality, and speed to market needs

Playing a key role in shaping strategic direction by providing market intelligence, regional insights and operational feedback

Supporting business initiatives by collaborating with global leadership and translating strategy into regional execution

Leading the search strategy for new suppliers with robust sourcing criteria, evaluation and qualification framework

Providing leadership and expert insight into seasonal planning discussions, offering recommendations and operational perspectives

Leading the seasonal/monthly PO process and WIP management, delivering On-Time-In-Full to meet business requirements

Fostering a culture of growth and development across the Sourcing org and regional teams

Building a transparent costing methodology with strong standards to deliver the right product costs and meet margin targets

Designing comprehensive onboarding and supplier development programs for all new and incumbent suppliers to drive successful execution

Negotiating, managing and safeguarding the terms and conditions of our supplier agreement

Upholding the Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing through the Arc’teryx supply chain

Advancing responsible purchasing principles and practices through adherence negotiated lead time and balanced annual capacities as outlined in the Responsible Sourcing Policy

Developing a robust and effective network assessment framework that assures the long-term availability of quality products

Building best-in-class supply chain processes that enhance our Innovation-to-Consumer efficiency

Fostering a continuous improvement mindset that optimizes our supply chain

Building a talent pipeline and creating career development opportunities that inspire and challenge the teams

You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Apparel or Textile Design, Merchandising, along with 15+ years of leadership experience in global sourcing and supply chain

You have deep experience in Asia-based manufacturing and vendor management

You have in-depth knowledge of the end-to-end apparel go-to-market process

You have proven skills at problem solving and strategy execution

You have proven performance history with domestic and offshore vendors and manufacturers

You have strong communication and influencing skills

You have proven business acumen and analytical skills

You have strong digital dexterity, including the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and leverage data

You have extreme attention to detail

You have an extensive knowledge of raw materials, technical construction, and sourcing

You have proven people management skills; you set a clear vision, align your team around common objectives, and foster commitment to these objectives

You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity

You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration