Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As the Director of Global Enterprise Planning on the Strategy team, you architect the planning system that connects Arc’teryx’s long-term strategy to annual priorities, resource allocation, and performance accountability. This is a systems-level role: you own the infrastructure that keeps leadership aligned, decisions grounded, and execution honest.
You own the enterprise planning process end-to-end – Strategic Planning Kickoff, Long-term Strategic Planning, AOP/budget prioritization, and Quarterly Business Reporting – while also owning the broader operating infrastructure: Excom and Board of Directors preparation, the strategic calendar, and the decision frameworks that ensure the right conversations happen with the right information at the right time.
You bring both architectural thinking and executional precision. You know when to build a new system and when to simplify an existing one. You are a credible executive partner, comfortable working directly with functional leaders and Finance to drive planning rigour across a complex, global business.
This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid work (or remote Canada with travels to North Vancouver, BC). Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
Meet Your Future Team:
The Strategy team is a trusted partner to 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. We provide 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, quarterly business reviews, and the development of an integrated performance management framework to connect our strategy to our annual operating budget and tactical operating plan.
If you were the Director, Global Strategy - Enterprise Planning here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Owning the design, governance, and continuous evolution of the enterprise planning system, ensuring strategic planning, annual operating planning, resource allocation, and performance reporting operate as an integrated enterprise process
- Leading the execution of the enterprise planning cycle, including Strategic Planning Kickoff, Long-Term Strategic Planning, and Quarterly Business Reviews, and partnering with Finance on Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and budget prioritization connected to business strategy
- Establishing and governing the enterprise planning cadence, ensuring cross-functional alignment, decision readiness, and the timely progression of key strategic milestones
- Building and maintaining the decision frameworks, governance structures, and planning standards that support enterprise-wide prioritization, accountability, and effective decision-making
- Partnering closely with Finance and business leaders to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, resource allocation decisions, and measurable outcomes
- Leading the planning and coordination of Executive Committee and Board reviews, ensuring strategic issues are clearly framed, decisions are supported by relevant insights, and resulting actions are effectively tracked
- Managing the enterprise portfolio of strategic initiatives, tracking progress, interdependencies, risks, and outcomes while escalating issues requiring executive attention
- Developing scenarios, business cases, and trade-off analyses that enable leaders to evaluate opportunities, risks, investments, and resource allocation decisions
- Providing fact-based analysis, insights, and recommendations to support executive decision-making, prioritization, and enterprise performance discussions
- Establishing enterprise performance management frameworks, scorecards, KPIs, and reporting mechanisms that drive accountability, transparency, and execution against strategic objectives
- Driving alignment across executive leadership, functions, regions, Finance, and Amer Sports to establish a consistent enterprise planning and performance management operating model
- Maintaining visibility to key strategic and execution risks, ensuring mitigation plans are developed, monitored, and integrated into enterprise planning processes
- Developing executive-level communications, planning documents, and leadership briefings that translate complex business information into clear priorities, recommendations, and actions
- Serving as the steward of enterprise planning effectiveness, continuously evaluating planning processes, governance, and reporting mechanisms to improve decision quality, organizational alignment, and business outcomes
- Developing and maintaining the tools, templates, governance processes, and planning methodologies that strengthen enterprise planning capability and support execution against strategic and business plans
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Evolving the enterprise planning system as the business scales—adding new planning horizons, integrating regional complexity, and improving the speed and quality of decisions
- Building repeatable frameworks and playbooks for planning processes that reduce dependency on heroic individual effort and increase organizational capability
- Partnering with Finance and regional teams to develop integrated financial and strategic planning models that connect long-range ambition to annual resource reality
- Developing the next generation of performance management tools—moving from tracking to accountability, and from reporting to action
- Supporting the Strategy team’s broader operating model evolution as new capability areas come online
Are you our next Director, Global Strategy - Enterprise Planning?
- You have a bachelor’s degree in business, strategy, or related field
- You have 10+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, management consulting, project management, consumer products and/or retail
- You have a demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic You think in systems – you can see how the strategic planning connects to the budget planning, how the QBR connects to accountability, and how the strategic calendar creates or destroys leadership bandwidth
- You are a credible executive partner with the communication skills to work directly with a CDR and functional leaders, and to translate complexity into decisions
- You have significant experience partnering with Finance on resource allocation, budget prioritization, and performance tracking
- You bring sharp analytical capability and strong written communication, and you can build a rigorous framework and write a clear executive brief
- You have experience working across regional and global operating models, ideally with exposure to retail or consumer-facing businesses
- You are organized without being rigid, and you know when the plan needs to change and how to move the system accordingly
- You demonstrate high emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and the ability to influence without authority across senior stakeholders
- You hold yourself and others to a high standard for quality of thinking, clarity of communication, and follow-through
Compensation:
Total Rewards
Most new team members join between the start and midpoint of the range, where you can contribute right away while continuing to grow your craft, your collaborations, and your impact at Arc’teryx. This range reflects market alignment and the scope of the role. Individual pay is determined by your skills, experience, and level of responsibility.
We’re committed to fair, equitable, and competitive pay, reviewed regularly to ensure internal alignment and market relevance. Transparency is part of how we follow through on our commitments and how we honour the value you bring to our team.
In addition to base pay, Arc’teryx supports people through benefits designed to sustain both work and life:
- Health & wellbeing - Extended health, dental, and vision coverage, including mental health support, fertility benefits, gender-affirming care and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Financial wellbeing - RRSP matching and eligibility for Arc'teryx Annual Incentive Plan and access to Employee Stock Purchase program (ESPP) where applicable.
- Time & Flexibility - Paid time off, wellness time, and No Wasted Day program (dedicated paid days to get outside & explore).
- Family support - Parental leave top-up and a nesting period for new parents.
- Growth, community & gear - Professional development opportunities, Arc'teryx Academies (outdoor skill-building events), Employee Belonging Councils, and access to employee discounts and Pro Deals (exclusive discounted pricing on gear).
*Eligibility for certain programs may vary by role.
Equal Opportunity
Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance.
Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.
All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.
Leave it Better
We believe that the mountains transform us, that how we adventure matters, and that there’s always a better way.
Join us in creating positive change in ourselves, our communities, and the world.
Live it. Get out there - the mountains make us better
Disruptive evolution. In pursuit of better. Always.
Commit. We set bold objectives and see them through.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business, strategy, or a related field
- 10+ years of professional experience in strategic planning, management consulting, project management, consumer products, and/or retail
- Demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker
- Experience working directly with executives and functional leaders, translating complexity into decisions
- Significant experience partnering with Finance on resource allocation, budget prioritization, and performance tracking
- Strong analytical capability and written communication skills, including developing rigorous frameworks and executive briefs
- Experience working across regional and global operating models
- Exposure to retail or consumer-facing businesses
- High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and ability to influence senior stakeholders without authority
- Strong organization, adaptability, quality standards, and follow-through
- Eligibility to work in Canada
Arc'teryx Equipment Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arc'teryx Equipment and has not been reviewed or approved by Arc'teryx Equipment.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Coverage extends to part‑time employees and includes gender‑affirming care, fertility and family‑planning drugs, and adult orthodontia, with options that consider diverse household structures. Mental‑health supports and broad eligibility reinforce access across employee groups.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A generous gear discount, periodic free gear, outdoor outings, and recognition programs like Arc’Adventure align with an outdoor‑oriented culture. Wellness resources such as a flexible wellness account, Headspace access, mental‑health reimbursements, Wellness Days, and an EAP enhance non‑cash value.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — A structured bonus program applies to all regular employees with targets tied to company performance and job level, aiming for equity across roles. Additional mechanisms such as annual incentive opportunities and referral bonuses are also available.
Arc'teryx Equipment Insights
What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running. Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories. In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.
