Associate Merchant, NAM

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As an Associate Merchant,your support in the execution of profitable, regional product line assortments for your assigned product category, aligns with the strategy, as assigned by the Senior Merchant 1, to achieve our company goals, consumer needs, and focuses on brand opportunities to bring innovative solutions to market.
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 Merchant team is responsible for delivering regional, seasonal product assortments that support the overall global product direction. In partnership with the Product Line Management (PLM) team, Merchants drive company sales, gross margin, and inventory productivity goals, in both our wholesale and vertical channels. This high performing team works closely with the Commercial and Merchandise Planning and Allocations (MP&A) teams to create future seasonal line plans and to maximize in-season sales performance.

If you were the Associate Merchant now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

Maintaining data integrity of the product line management systems to ensure merchant strategy is accurately reflected in the appropriate information system

Supporting the execution of the merchandising strategy for your assigned product category to deliver on our 5-year brand vision, sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals in partnership with the Merchandising and Planning teams across all global business channels

Contributing to the management of the product lifecycle for each model , from development to commercialization to eventual redesign, replacement or retirement

Supporting our overall strategic direction on seasonal selling plans, supporting our overall strategies (grow, diminish, hold, exit, launch, sell-thru vs sell-in)

Preparing, creating and updating team visuals, (using PowerPoint and other visual tools) to support regional merchandising team

Supporting communications with PLM teams to ensure that regional needs are incorporated into the global line plan

Helping support Sr. Merchants with flow file updates to ensure line list accuracy throughout the season

Supporting the product framework and assortment structure that guides merchant execution within retail, wholesale key account and digital channels to maximize sales, profit and global brand positioning

Supporting the merchants in researching the global marketplace and identifying key consumer and market insights

Working closely with the other Merchants to complete shared tasks, such as hangtag selection, product and material naming, photoshoot direction, sample coordination, etc., in alignment with PLM milestones

Upholding Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing, throughout the Arc’teryx supply chain added the visual call-out here

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

Active participation in cross functional meetings and sample management for key stage gates

Partnering with the business to prepare for drop review and product presentations

Partnering with merchants; ideating solutions and taking on the lead role in the merchandise planning process

Are you our next Associate Merchant?

You have 3+ years of experience in Outdoor Retail or Customer Service, Merchandising, Product Development, Wholesale and/or Retail Buying roles

You have operating knowledge of retail math concepts; you are familiar with sell through, calculating cost of goods, and the open to buy process

You have strong organizational skills and excellent attention to detail

You effectively manage your time, and you possess strong analytical, presentation and communication…