Senior Global Footwear Demand Planner

Department: Supply Chain - Merchandise, Demand, and Inventory Planning

Capability Area: Global Demand Planning

Location: Portland Office, On Site

As the Senior Global Footwear Demand Planner at Arc’teryx, you will own the rolling demand forecast for one of the business’s major product categories, building statistically driven baselines, translating assortment plans into demand projections, and contributing to the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle with a consensus plan that the business can act on. You will work across a broad cross-functional network, including Merchandise Financial Planning, Sourcing, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, Allocations, Merchandising, FP&A, and Commercial, and you will be the planning voice that connects near‑term execution to a 1–5‑year demand view.

This is a role for a planner who brings rigor to their forecasts and knows how to balance statistical discipline with business judgment.

This role is based out of our Portland office. Candidates must be eligible to work in the USA.

The Global Demand Planning team leads the development of a unified view of customer demand across regions, channels, and time horizons. By integrating financial, market, and product inputs, the team enables aligned, data‑driven decisions and connects demand to supply and inventory planning across the business.

• Developing and maintaining a rolling near and long‑term demand forecast, 1-5 years out, for the Footwear category, including generating baseline statistical forecasts and translating assortment launch plans into demand projections
• Participating in the IBP cycle to build a consensus demand plan, reconciling top‑down financial targets with bottom‑up SKU‑level forecasts
• Providing volume outlooks to Sourcing, Supply Planning to support capacity and buy decisions, and building demand curves for new product launches
• Conducting scenario and risk planning, identifying demand risks and supply constraints, and bringing recommendations to cross‑functional partners
• Work closely with Senior Footwear leaders in identifying demand drivers, and future growth opportunities across Regions and the Global business to drive assortment & product creation decisions
• Be a powerful voice with regions and Senior Leaders on the Global Footwear strategy, identifying areas of investment opportunities, categorising risks, and bringing creative solutions to the table in a fast growing entrepreneurial business environment

• Contributing to IBP process maturity and forecasting methodology improvements that strengthen planning across the organization
• Shaping how new product forecasting and demand curve development evolve as the product portfolio grows

• You have a bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or a related field
• You have 5+ years of experience in Demand Planning or Merchandise Planning, in a Footwear industry or Footwear focused portfolio
• You have strong demand forecasting experience, including deep statistical forecasting knowledge and advanced Excel and data manipulation skills, with experience with global and regional nuances
• You bring a strong understanding of retail KPIs
• You have experience with new product forecasting, including building demand curves for launches
• You have experience with advanced planning tools such as o9, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, Oracle
• You are comfortable working across large, complex data environments
• You are a strong analytical problem‑solver who can…