Product Line Manager; PLM – Women’s Trail

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As a PLM – Women’s Trail, your creation of profitable, global product line assortments for the Women’s Trail product category aligns with the overall Merchandising strategy and supports 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 work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

The Product Line Management (PLM) team is responsible for determining and delivering the right product, in the right places, at the right time. In partnership with the Merchant team, PLM delivers product lines that support the overall Design creative direction, while driving company sales, gross margin, and inventory productivity goals, on a global scale. This high performing team works closely with the Design and Product Creation Development teams to bring the product vision to life through future seasonal line plans, and partners with the Costing and Sourcing teams on the upstream side of the product cycle.

• Executing the Product Line strategy across all business units for Women’s Run and Trail product categories
• Writing and presenting product briefs for each new product that aligns with the category strategy, seasonal story‑telling focus, and brand vision
• Partnering with Design, Development and Finance teams to ensure each product with your line achieve the brief – from feature set to fit to margin
• Partnering with Merchandising and Planning teams across all global business channels to execute on your dedicated product categories to deliver on our 5-year brand vision in addition to sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals, with an emphasis on collaborating with PLMs in the Women’s Climb product category
• Managing the product lifecycle for each model, from development to commercialization, to eventual redesign, replacement or retirement
• Partnering on overall strategic direction on seasonal selling plans and supporting our overall strategies (grow, diminish, hold, exit, launch) (sell‑thru vs sell‑in)
• Contributing to documenting best practices and creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Researching and analyzing the global marketplace to identify key consumer and market insights to inform the concept work and development of new products and the range
• Developing and delivering product presentations for key calendar touchpoints that inspire and deliver the critical information to our internal stakeholders, ensuring successful development of seasonal assets and plans
• Owning global Go-To-Market (GTM) product knowledge and providing global Commercial and Brand teams and partners with selling tools and product information
• Supporting with training and mentorship initiatives across the team; partnering with the Associate PLM on daily operations
• Travelling for market visit and athlete summits as required (likely twice a year)
• Upholding Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing, throughout the Arc’teryx supply chain

• Collaborating with the Design and Development teams to create a lineplan that delivers double digit sales growth, while delivering new and innovative product launches that support our guests getting outside and living it
• Creating strong cross‑functional partnerships with Planning and Allocations team counterparts, to help understand current business performance and leverage insights to guide and inform future range plans
• Developing towards owning the full assortment strategy for your assigned activity set

• You have 5+ years’ experience in Outdoor Retail, Merchandising, Product Development, Wholesale and/or Retail Buying roles
• You have strong knowledge of sell through, calculating cost of goods, and the open to buy process
• You can manage a large portfolio of models (40+) and a high articles count
• You are skilled in retail and merchandising math
• You have strong organizational skills and excellent…