Manager, Strategy
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About the Role
Arc'teryx Equipment is looking for a Manager, Strategy to support the enablement of long-term strategic plans through cross-functional project management and strategy development. You will drive key projects, define timelines, manage project plans, and work with the team to unblock challenges.
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Responsibilities
- Structure strategic problems and develop frameworks that help cross functional stakeholders identify opportunities and solve complex challenges
- Build data informed strategies and connect insights to strategic direction
- Develop comprehensive stakeholder engagement plans to ensure the right people are in the right conversations
- Create compelling communication materials including meeting content, presentations, and strategic updates
- Connect cross functional dots to ensure strategy is understood and executed across the organization
- Collaborate cross functionally to drive the annual business planning process, weaving long term strategies into actionable annual plans
- Lead the development and management of tools, processes, and governance to execute against strategic and business plans
- Establish project foundations and end to end project plans, including governance, ways of working, key stakeholders, meeting cadence, deliverables, and timelines
- Drive and deliver project work, including progress reporting to senior leaders
- Identify risks proactively, develop mitigation solutions, and escalate as needed
- Assess change management requirements to ensure successful project rollout and implementation
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, strategy, or related field
- 5+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, management consulting, project management, consumer products and/or retail
- 3+ years of project management experience and experience using project management software
- Demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker
- Strong understanding of retail and consumer facing businesses
- Proven track record of successfully directing cross functional projects
- High emotional intelligence, influencing skills, and communication skills to collaborate with senior executive stakeholders
Full Job Posting
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX
- As the Manager, Strategy you will support the enablement of our long term strategic plan, through cross functional project management and strategy development.
- You will be responsible for driving key projects forward; including defining the timelines, developing, and managing the project plan, delivering key areas of work, and working with the team to see progress and unblock challenges along the way.
- You thrive in an agile environment and can balance multiple projects at once.
- This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is expected to be performed on location.
Meet Your Future Team
- The Strategy team, which sits within the Brand Marketing function, partners with the executive leadership team in the development, prioritization, and oversight of our company strategies.
- The team provides strategic insights and frameworks to enable strategy development, cross functional alignment and executive decision making.
- We are experts at translating complex, unstructured problems into clear executive level narrative and recommendations.
- Our team leads the company’s long range strategic planning process and quarterly business reviews.
Core Activities
- Structuring strategic problems and developing frameworks that help cross functional stakeholders identify opportunities and solve complex challenges.
- Building data informed strategies and connecting insights to strategic direction, helping to spread a culture of insights throughout Arc’teryx.
- Developing comprehensive stakeholder engagement plans to ensure the right people are in the right conversations.
- Creating compelling communication materials including meeting content, presentations, and strategic updates, to align and inform stakeholders at all levels.
- Connecting cross functional dots to ensure strategy is understood and executed across the organization.
- Collaborating cross functionally to drive the annual business planning process, weaving long term strategies into actionable annual plans.
- Leading the development and management of tools, processes, and governance to execute against strategic and business plans.
- Establishing project foundations and end to end project plans, including governance, ways of working, key stakeholders, meeting cadence, deliverables, and timelines.
- Driving and delivering project work, including progress reporting to senior leaders.
- Identifying risks proactively, developing mitigation solutions, and escalating as needed.
- Assessing change management requirements to ensure successful project rollout and implementation.
Future Work
- Leading end to end business case development for new product, brand, and business opportunities.
- Owning the full lifecycle of high visibility, high impact projects.
- Crafting compelling executive level narratives and presentations for board meetings, investor days, and senior leadership forums.
Qualifications
- You have a bachelor’s degree in business, strategy, or related field.
- You have 5+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, management consulting, project management, consumer products and/or retail.
- You have 3+ years of project management experience and have experience using project management software.
- You have a demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker with the ability to translate complex information into actionable insights.
- You have a strong understanding of retail and consumer facing businesses.
- You have a proven track record of successfully directing cross functional projects.
- You can work in and bring structure to ambiguous environments.
- You have the capacity to synthesize information into effective strategies and innovative insights.
- You have high emotional intelligence, influencing skills, and communication skills to collaborate with senior executive stakeholders.
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to build strategic narratives and impactful executive level presentations.
- You have strong leadership, facilitation, and analytical skills.
- You have an entrepreneurial spirit, are a self starter, and results driven.
Compensation
- Salary range: CAD 108,000 CAD 135,000.
Total Rewards
- Health & wellbeing: Extended health, dental, and vision coverage, including mental health support, fertility benefits, gender affirming care and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Financial wellbeing: RRSP matching and eligibility for Arc'teryx Annual Incentive Plan and access to Employee Stock Purchase program (ESPP) where applicable.
- Time & Flexibility: Paid time off, wellness time, and No Wasted Day program (dedicated paid days to get outside & explore).
- Family support: Parental leave top up and a nesting period for new parents.
- Growth, community & gear: Professional development opportunities, Arc'teryx Academies (outdoor skill building events), Employee Belonging Councils, and access to employee discounts and Pro Deals (exclusive discounted pricing on gear).
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