Demand Planner

Department: Merchandise Planning & Allocations

Reports to: Manager, Merchandise Planning

Location: North Vancouver, BC

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As a Demand Planner, you develop and own the Demand Plan and Inventory strategies for specific product portfolios or regions. You balance your decisions based on the Merchant intent, Sales Forecast, Revenue expectations, and Supply Chain capabilities to support our overall business plan. This ensures optimal product availability for an exceptional guest experience, while minimizing excess inventories.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Meet Your Future Team:

The Merchandise Planning & Allocations team is a cross functional group whose focus is to continuously drive sales and margin, while mitigating inventory risks by finding the balance between the right product, at the right quantity, in the right place, at the right time

If you were in the Demand Planner role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Working closely with Commercial and Merchant Teams on business planning for the responsible portfolio/region to generate specific demand plans to support strategic business growth while controlling inventory risks
• Analyzing the historical data, trending information and other available data on product, region and channel to develop an accurate demand plan at SKU level by season and period
• Integrating ongoing feedback from all markets, regions, and channels in a timely manner to accurately capture all necessary business trends in in your demand plan.
• Leading monthly S&OP review process for your responsible portfolio(s) and providing clarity on progress towards your planning’s KPI’s
• Collaborating with the supply planning team to confirm supply availability to meet demand projections and adjust the demand plan as needed in consideration of supply chain constraints while minimizing or eliminating negative business impacts
• Creating multi-channel planning strategies and establishing accurate inventory requirements (OTB) to achieve our Strategic Business Plan (SBP) expectations
• Planning inventory requirements to achieve revenue expectations targets per region, channel, while minimizing global excess inventory
• · Owning the demand planning accuracy and its continuous improvement for the responsible portfolio
• Collaborating with the Merchandising team on future product launch preliminary forecasts and validating assortment & SKU efficiency
• Owning inventory sell-through optimization through multichannel allocation, consolidation, pricing, and end of life decisions

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

• Participating in demand planning improvement projects and initiatives as they arise
• Engaging in seasonal assortment reviews and lead seasonal buy reviews
• Working closely with other supply chain and product teams on inventory strategies as well as monitoring/tracking various demand planning factors that impact product availability

Are you our next Demand Planner?

• You have a University degree in Math, Economic, Statistics, Business or equivalent
• You have a minimum 3 years of Demand Planning, Sales Forecasting or Financial modeling experience
• You have outstanding analytical abilities, combined with business acumen with the ability to master the numbers and relate it to the rest of organization
• You have the ability to think both strategically and tactically, a persistent attention to detail and a high level of comfort in working with large quantities of data
• You have strong interpersonal skills, ability to influence different level of stakeholders.
• You have advanced Excel skills
• You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
• You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it

Equal Opportunity

Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance. 

Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.

All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.

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