Commercialization Specialist

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Manager, Commercialization Location: North Vancouver, BC Your opportunity at Arc’teryx:As a Commercialization Specialist, you are responsible for managing products from design approval through to production readiness, supporting our ability to deliver on time and providing an exceptional consumer experience. Your innovative and solutions-focused approach to development and commercialization ensures that each product you work on meets Arc'teryx design intent, supply chain requirements and contributes to our ability to scale in a skilled capable manufacturing base.

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 Specialists are passionate about transitioning product from creation to a scalable buy ready state. We partner closely with our vendors to ensure products meet product development, cost and quality expectations while supporting our sourcing strategies. We achieve this by building strong cross functional relationships within Product Creation Development and additional functional Supply Chain partners, as well as the Design and Merchandising teams.

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

Owning the development and commercialization of product as we transition to manufacturing from product creation development approval through to bulk readiness, ensuring product is delivered on time in full

Consistently achieving product design intent through collaboration with Product Creation Development, Design, and Supply Chain (Sourcing, Costing, Compliance and Quality) departments

Working directly with global vendors, as well as Arc’teryx’s own factory, to accurately communicate model requirements, buy ready and production ready specifications, approved reference samples and patterns to meet established fit, quality and construction standards

Collaborating with global and own factory base to provide manufacturing input to our Product teams that will improve scalability, efficiency and enable quality in our manufacturing base

Transforming the Product Creation Development tech pack information into an accurate database of Bill of Materials (BOM) information that will result in efficient raw material sourcing and purchasing which then enables the vendors to accurately produce finished product on time, in full at cost

Executing to calendar deliverables, including but not limited to development protos, pre-production and size run samples, raw material and finished goods validation, costing, compliance testing, quality evaluation and approval requirements with key stakeholders

In partnership with Sourcing and Costing, support ownership in achieving product cost estimates and vendor cost negotiations to meet and/or exceed target FOB/margins for new product

Ownership and management of seasonal carryovers, as well as supporting Supply Chain with regards to cost and quality providing teams (inclusive of Product Development and Colour) visibility and ensuring inflation targets and seasonal updates are met

Managing inline product updates, including but not limited to factory transitions, duel sourced, material changes, and compliance changes

Contributing to the creation and evolution of construction standards in conjunction with the Quality team

Supporting Sourcing & Quality in the training of new factory resources and ensuring that Arc’teryx brand standards are met

Identifying gaps and opportunities, working with Product Creation Development, Sourcing, Costing and Quality to drive process improvement with a lean forward attitude to drive evolution within the design to manufacturing process

Travelling, as needed, to support the business expectations

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

Contributing to process improvement with cross functional partners

Reporting on team metrics

Supporting the execution of the vendor strategy

Are you our next Commercialization Specialist?

You have 4+ years’ experience in product development (developing product/process)…