Senior Director, Sourcing

Department: Supply Chain
Reports to: VP, Sourcing
Location: North Vancouver

Business address: 110-2220 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver, BC V7H 1A8

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Senior Director of Sourcing, you will lead and elevate our sourcing strategy, optimizing our engagement with supply chain partners and driving excellence across our global network. You will develop and implement procurement strategies that support the company's growth objectives and drive operational excellence, while fostering innovation, agility, quality, and cost efficiency. Your strategic leadership will be crucial in building a resilient and efficient supply chain that aligns with our sustainability goals and business needs.

Meet Your Future Team:

We are a high-performing and versatile team of problem solvers and process innovators dedicated to bringing design to life and maintaining our brand integrity. We embrace and live our brand values and are passionate about innovation.

The Sourcing Team builds and executes a sustainable global sourcing strategy that enables us to deliver exceptional products at the right place, with the right quality and cost, and on time. You will collaborate internally with Design, Product Development, Finance, Raw Materials, Quality, Planning, and Sustainability, as well as externally with our vendor partners to execute our strategy.

If you were the Sr. Director, Sourcing now, here are some of the core activities you would be responsible for:

• Leading, guiding and mentoring a high performing Sourcing team, fostering core competencies and capabilities in delivering a world class supply chain
• Driving cross-functional initiatives to achieve organizational objectives and long-term strategic plan
• Developing and implementing our global sourcing strategy with the right manufacturing capacity and capability to drive our business growth and delivers on cost, quality, and speed to market needs
• Leading the Sourcing team to achieve its medium and long-term financial and operating objectives as set by the strategies and business plans
• Fostering a culture of growth and development across the Sourcing org and holding other leaders and managers accountable to their goals
• Owning and enhancing relationship with our suppliers through direct engagement, collaboration, and partnership
• Leading the seasonal planning and commercialization process: allocations strategy, seasonal development to buy ready, and end-to-end costing
• Building a transparent costing methodology with strong standards to deliver the right product costs and meet margin targets
• Managing the supplier network with the right balance of country, capacity, and capability to maximize value and reduce long-term risk
• Leading the search strategy for new suppliers with a robust sourcing criteria, evaluation and qualification framework
• Designing a comprehensive onboarding program for new suppliers to ensure a successful integration
• Negotiating, managing and safeguarding the terms and conditions of our supplier agreement
• Leading continuous supply chain improvement by maintaining a supplier scorecard that captures areas of performance including product innovation, development, lead time, costs, compliance, sustainability, and partnership
• Partnering with Advanced Concepts and Inline Design teams to ensure we have the right capability and business plan to deliver product concept and innovation
• Collaborating cross-functionally as a key member of our product leadership team
• Upholding the Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing through the Arc’teryx supply chain
• Working closely with the Amer Sports Global Sourcing Vendor Sustainability team on quarterly business reviews and training/capacity building
• Advancing responsible purchasing principles and practices through adherence negotiated lead time and balanced annual capacities as outlined in the Responsible Sourcing Policy

 

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

• Developing a robust and effective network assessment tool that assures the long-term availability of quality product
• Building best-in-class supply chain processes that enhances our Go-to-Market efficiency
• Fostering a continuous improvement mindset that optimizes the product engine
• Proposing and developing long term strategy in building a world class supply chain
• Building a talent pipeline and creating career development opportunities that inspire and challenge the team

Are you our next Sr. Director, Sourcing?

 

• You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Apparel or Textile Design, Supply Chain, Business, Merchandising, or Engineering, along with 10+ years of leadership experience in sourcing and supply chain
• You have a strong knowledge of supply chain and logistics
• You have a knowledge of the end-to-end apparel go-to-market process
• You have proven skills at problem solving, interpreting design intent and product innovation
• You have proven performance history with domestic and offshore vendors and manufacturers
• You have strong communication and influencing skills
• You have proven business acumen and analytical skills
• You have strong digital dexterity, including the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and leverage data
• You have extreme attention to detail
• You have an extensive knowledge of raw materials, technical construction, and sourcing
• You have proven people management skills; you set a clear vision, align your team around common objectives, and foster commitment to these objectives
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
• You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
• You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it.