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Associate Merchant – Pro/Leaf, Footwear Jobs in North Vancouver, BC at Arc’teryx
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Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As an Associate Merchant, you support in the execution of a profitable product assortment for the Pro, Leaf and Footwear product categories. Your work aligns with the strategy (as delivered by the Director, Merchandising), 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 expected to be performed on-site.. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
Meet your future team:
The Merchandising team is responsible for delivering the seasonal product line for our product categories, supporting the overall design creative direction, while driving company sales, gross margin, and inventory productivity goals in both our wholesale and vertical channels. This high performing team works closely with the Design and Product Creation Development teams to create future seasonal line plans, and partners with the Merchandise Planning and Allocations team to maximize in-season sales performance.
If you were the Associate Merchant now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
Maintaining data integrity of the product line management systems to ensure merchant strategy is accurately reflected in the appropriate information system
Supporting the execution of the merchandising strategy for your assigned product categories
Supporting the successful execution of your assigned product categories delivering on our 5-year brand vision in addition to sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals, in partnership with Merchandising and Planning teams across all global business channels
Contributing to the management of the product lifecycle for each model, from development to commercialization to eventual redesign, replacement or retirement
Supporting our overall strategic direction on seasonal selling plans, supporting our overall strategies (grow, diminish, hold, exit, launch, sell-thru vs sell-in)
Supporting communications with international buying teams to ensure that regional needs are incorporated into the global line plan
Supporting the product framework and assortment structure that guides merchant execution within retail, wholesale key account and digital channels to maximize sales, profit and global brand positioning
Supporting the merchants in researching the global marketplace and identifying key consumer and market insights
Gathering global go-to-market product knowledge, providing global commercial teams and partners with sell-in tools and product information consistently across all channels
Identifying hangtag and packaging requirements seasonally and work with Product Creation Development, Design and Marketing teams to ensure the necessary pieces are created
Working closely with the other Merchants to complete shared tasks, such as hangtag selection, product and material naming, photoshoot direction, sample coordination, etc., in a timely manner
Supporting to continuously evolve processes and establish best practices in assigned categories
Upholding Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing, throughout the Arc’teryx supply chain
Here are some things you could be working on in the future:
Supporting the successful execution of the seasonal merchandise strategy, through systems management, a…
Title: Associate Merchant – Pro/Leaf, Footwear
Company: Arc’teryx
Location: North Vancouver, BC
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