Manager, Commercialization
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About the Role
Arc'teryx Equipment is hiring a Manager, Commercialization to lead a team of technical specialists in developing and delivering technical specifications for apparel products.
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Responsibilities
- Build, lead, coach, and guide a high performing team of Technical Commercialization Specialists
- Manage workload between team members and calendar requirements to ensure timelines are met
- Manage the new model product specification process from fit approval to bulk production
- Ensure seasonal carryover and transition process supports Supply Chain team needs
- Report and drive improvement on key performance metrics for speed, quality, cost, and efficiency
- Propose sourcing strategies to optimize total product cost and support margin
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Apparel or Textile Design, Technology, Merchandising, or Engineering
- 8+ years’ experience in sourcing, design, development, production, or merchandising
- 3+ years’ experience in people leadership
- Strong knowledge of apparel construction, material construction and properties, pattern making, costing, bill of materials, embroidery, and surface applications
- Proven performance history with domestic and offshore vendors and manufacturers
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Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX
- As the Manager, Commercialization, you are the commercialization expert in your designated product category.
- You understand the unique needs of your category to lead, support and guide a team of specialists in their efforts to develop and deliver the technical specifications and factory competencies to be buy ready and production ready, while meeting product cost strategies, quality and manufacturing stand
Core Activities
- Building, leading, coaching, and guiding a high performing team of Technical Commercialization Specialists who manage the buy ready and production ready process at our factories
- Managing workload between team members and calendar requirements to ensure timelines are met throughout the commercialization process
- Leading, training, and guiding a team of commercialization specialists to improve scalability, efficiency, and quality in our manufacturing base
- Managing the new model product specification process from fit approval to bulk production enabling the accurate planning of raw materials to meet our quality and delivery expectations
- Ensuring the seasonal carryover and transition process supports Supply Chain team needs and seasonal updates are met
- Managing processes and planning workload to ensure timelines are met to support delivery expectations
- Reporting and driving improvement on key performance metrics that deliver speed, quality, cost, and efficiency
- Reporting team performance metrics regularly to management team
- Managing the standard documentation process to provide sufficient detail to accurately produce finish goods
- Supporting with the building of direct development to extend our development capacity
- Proposing sourcing strategies for your product category to optimize total product cost, support margin, and best utilize supply chain capabilities and efficiencies
- Partnering with Sourcing and their strategy to provide recommendation for the seasonal model allocation for your product category.
Qualifications
- You have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Apparel or Textile Design, Technology, Merchandising, or Engineering
- You have 8+ years’ experience in sourcing, design, development, production, or merchandising, ideally including 3+ years’ experience in people leadership
- You have a strong knowledge of apparel construction, material construction and properties, pattern making, costing, bill of materials, embroidery, and surface applications
- You have proven skills in problem solving, interpreting design intent and product innovation
- You have proven performance history with domestic and offshore vendors and manufacturers
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills
- You have an extreme attention to detail
- You are able to travel globally, as needed, to support the business expectations
- You have strong prioritization skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities
- You have strong computer skills in Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Office
Total Rewards
- The salary range for this role is CAD 108,000 CAD 139,650 (midpoint CAD 135,000).
- In addition to base pay, Arc’teryx supports people through benefits designed to sustain both work and life.
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