Senior Manager, Global Footwear Merchandise Planning

Department: Merchandise, Demand, and Inventory Planning Capability Area: Global Merchandise Planning Location: Portland Office, on Site Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX: As the Senior Manager, Global Footwear Merchandise Planning, you will own the financial architecture that connects product vision to business performance across every region and channel where Arc’teryx operates. You will set the financial plans that drives Footwear growth, manage margin, and keep inventory productive, translating the Footwear strategy into actionable buying and assortment decisions at a global scale. This role sits at the intersection of creativity and commerce, requiring you to balance the art of product with the rigor of financial discipline. You will be a critical voice in senior leadership conversations, bringing clarity through data-driven storytelling and challenging the business to make smarter, bolder decisions. If you thrive at the center of a globally complex, high-growth organization where planning drives meaningful competitive advantage, this role was built for you. This role is based out of our Portland office. Candidates must be eligible to work in the USA. Meet Your Future Team: 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 (OTB) 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. If you were in the Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Planning role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing: Owning Global Footwear Merchandise Financial Plans across sales, margin, and inventory, with regional nuances built in Defining and managing Global Footwear OTB, balancing revenue growth, inventory productivity, and margin targets in real time Driving Global Footwear Assortment creation and investment strategies in close partnership with Global Merchandising & PIA teams, focused on Product lifecycle and Roadmaps. Working closely with Regional Planning and Merchant teams on investment and sales targets for Footwear, driving momentum in hitting seasonal and long-term strategic growth plans. Presenting financial plans and hindsight analysis to senior leadership, translating complexity into clear, actionable recommendations Leading, developing, and setting strategic direction for the Senior Footwear Demand Planner. Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future: Building agile, insight-driven merchandise financial planning capabilities that allow Arc’teryx to sense and respond to shifts in consumer demand, channel performance, and market conditions with greater speed and confidence Positioning Global Merchandise Planning as a strategic integrator across Finance, Merchandising, and Supply Planning, influencing how the broader organization aligns on financial targets, investment priorities, and scenario trade-offs Are you our next Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Planning? You have a bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or a related field You have 8-10+ years of experience in Merchandise Planning or Demand Planning, with 5+ years experience within a Footwear business and portfolio You have demonstrated expertise across sales forecasting, OTB management, and margin and profitability analysis You bring a strong command of strategic business and assortment planning, and understand how global supply chain dynamics shape merchandise financial decisions You are an advanced data analytics practitioner, comfortable with planning tools and capable of driving postmortem analysis that leads to sharper future decisions You are…

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