Manager, Strategy

Department: Strategy

Reports to: Senior Director, Strategy

Location: North Vancouver, BC

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Manager, Strategy you will support the enablement of our long-term strategic plan, through cross-functional project management and strategy development. You will be responsible for driving key projects forward; including defining the timelines, developing, and managing the project plan, delivering key areas of work, and working with the team to see progress and unblock challenges along the way. 

You thrive in an agile environment and can balance multiple projects at once. You connect dots and can foresee barriers and opportunities with implementing change. You can help simplify complex scenarios and bring clarity to confusion. You bring solutions and appropriate recommendations to solve for anticipated needs.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is expected to be performed on-location.

Meet Your Future Team:

The Strategy team, which sits within the Brand Marketing function, partners with the executive leadership team in the development, prioritization, and oversight of our company strategies, working cross-functionally across the business to ensure attainment of our long-term strategic objectives and goals. The team provides strategic insights and frameworks to enable strategy development, cross-functional alignment and executive decision making. We are experts at translating complex, unstructured problems into clear executive level narrative and recommendations. Our team leads the company’s long-range strategic planning process and quarterly business reviews to connect our strategy to our annual operating budget and annual strategic plan.

Structuring strategic problems and developing frameworks that help cross-functional stakeholders identify opportunities and solve complex challenges

Building data-informed strategies and connecting insights to strategic direction, helping to spread a culture of insights throughout Arc’teryx

Developing comprehensive stakeholder engagement plans to ensure the right people are in the right conversations

Creating compelling communication materials including meeting content, presentations, and strategic updates, to align and inform stakeholders at all levels

Connecting cross-functional dots to ensure strategy is understood and executed across the organization

Collaborating cross-functionally to drive the annual business planning process, weaving long-term strategies into actionable annual plans

Leading the development and management of tools, processes, and governance to execute against strategic and business plans

Establishing project foundations and end-to-end project plans, including governance, ways of working, key stakeholders, meeting cadence, deliverables, and timelines

Driving and delivering project work, including progress reporting to senior leaders

Identifying risks proactively, developing mitigation solutions, and escalating as needed

Assessing change management requirements to ensure successful project rollout and implementation

Leading end-to-end business case development for new product, brand, and business opportunities. Structuring complex problems, building data-informed recommendations, and aligning cross-functional stakeholders on strategic direction

Owning the full lifecycle of high-visibility, high-impact project. Establishing governance, managing project plans and timelines, driving cross-functional progress, and proactively identifying and mitigating risks to ensure successful delivery

 Crafting compelling executive-level narratives and presentations for board meetings, investor days, and senior leadership forums. Translating complex, unstructured information into clear, actionable storylines for senior audiences

You have a bachelor’s degree in business, strategy, or related field

You have 5+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, management consulting, project management, consumer products and/or retail

You have 3+ years of project management experience and have experience using project management software

You have a demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker with the ability to translate complex information into actionable insights

You have a strong understanding of retail and consumer-facing businesses

You have a proven track record of successfully directing cross-functional projects

You can work in and bring structure to ambiguous environments

You have the capacity to synthesize information into effective strategies and innovative insights, translating complex ideas into simple, actionable recommendations

You have high emotional intelligence, influencing skills, and communication skills to collaborate with senior executive stakeholders

You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to build strategic narratives and impactful executive-level presentations

You have strong leadership, facilitation, and analytical skills

You have an entrepreneurial spirit, are a self-starter, and results driven

You demonstrate flexibility and resilience to change and ambiguity

You have a commitment to ethical decision-making and doing what is right

The salary range for this role is CAD$108,000 - CAD$135,000.