Manager, Commercialization

Department :
Product Creation Development

Reports to :

Senior Director, Product Creation Development

Location: North Vancouver, BC

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 standards and efficiency.

You provide insight and recommend sustainable strategies for your product category to continuously improve speed, optimize total product cost, support margin, and best utilize supply chain capability and efficiencies to achieve the product intent, function, and performance with integrity.

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 Commercialization Manager are passionate about leading and developing people / teams. You will be working with a team of technical specialists and with the Product Creation Development department throughout the season. You will have strong relationships with our vendors to ensure sourcing / development and Product Integrity strategies are executed.

• 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 (e.g., product category execution against the corporate calendar, workflow, team capacity vs seasonal requirements)
• Managing the standard documentation process to provide sufficient detail to accurately produce finish goods, maintain an accurate database of BOM (Bill of Materials) information, aid raw material commitments and support Quality processes
• Supporting with the building of direct development to extend our development capacity and ensure Arc’teryx continues to achieve state of the art opportunities for product innovation
• 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.
• Supporting Sourcing partners on the assessment of new factories needed to support growth, category expansion and flexibility in our supply chain
• Supporting the product development creation process
• Partnering with Design, Product Creation Development, Supply Chain, and our external vendors to provide continuous improvements in speed, scalability, efficiency, and consistency in our development to manufacturing process
• Providing the seasonal timeline targets and delivery plan for your product and/or factory portfolio
• Working with the Product Integrity team to ensure our vendor base understands, utilizes and supports the evolution of construction standards
• Supporting the Compliance team in ensuring all testing requirements are consistently met
• Building strong partnerships with our vendor base ensuring our expectations of our Product Creation and Commercialization process are clear and…