Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As Manager, Demand Planning - EMEA, you own the demand forecast that connects business strategy to its operational plans across the channels. You lead the Demand Review in the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) forum, align forecasts with Merchandise Financial Plan targets and inventory planning constraints, and reconcile top-down financial targets with bottom-up SKU-level plans. This is a role for a planning leader who brings both statistical rigour and commercial judgment, who operates confidently in cross-functional forums, and who knows how to build a high-performing team around them. You will drive forecast accuracy, lead root cause analysis, and be the person who continuously raises the maturity of demand planning processes and tools.
Meet Your Future Team:
The Demand Planning - EMEA team translates business priorities, consumer demand signals, and market insights into an integrated consensus forecast across B2B, Retail and eCommerce. The team serves as the primary owner of the regional demand signal, enabling aligned decisions that support growth, profitability, and customer experience across Demand Planning, Merchandise Planning, and Inventory.
If you were in the Manager, Demand Planning - EMEA role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Owning the regional demand planning process and consensus demand plan across the 0-18-month horizon, ensuring alignment between statistical forecasts, commercial assumptions, and financial objectives
- Leading the Demand Review in the monthly IBP forum, driving alignment between top-down financial targets and bottom-up SKU forecasts
- Aligning demand forecasts with merchandise financial plan targets and inventory planning constraints, and reconciling where gaps exist
- Establishing governance of demand planning processes, ensuring forecast assumptions, risks and opportunities are aligned, documented and communicated consistently across the organization
- Continuously improving forecast accuracy through root cause analysis, driving optimization of demand planning processes and tools within the regional demand planning tool suite
- Leading, developing, and building capability within the regional demand planning team
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Building a more structured and scalable demand planning capability for the region as Arc’teryx’s DTC and Wholesale footprint grows
- Shaping how demand planning tools and systems develop to support a more sophisticated, connected demand planning capability
Are you our next Manager, Demand Planning - EMEA?
- You have a bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain Management, or a related field
- You have 5-8+ years of experience in Demand Planning, Forecasting, or Merchandise Planning, preferably in a DTC or omnichannel retail environment
- You bring strong experience in statistical forecasting, forecast accuracy, promotional and event-based forecasting, and new product forecasting, with specific experience across DTC channels
- You have strong analytical and data interpretation skills, with the ability to translate complex demand signals into clear, commercially grounded forecasts
- You have a strong understanding of KPIs including sell-through, traffic, conversion, Average Unit Retail (AUR), Units Per Transaction (UPT), and inventory turns, and you use that commercial lens to sharpen your forecasts
- You have experience with advanced planning tools such as o9, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, Oracle (preferred)
- You have proven people management skills; you set a clear vision, align your team around common objectives, and foster commitment to these objectives
- You have a proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge assumptions through data-driven insights
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain Management, or a related field
- 5-8+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, or merchandise planning
- Experience in a direct-to-consumer or omnichannel retail environment
- Experience with statistical forecasting, forecast accuracy, promotional and event-based forecasting, and new product forecasting
- Experience forecasting across direct-to-consumer channels
- Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
- Knowledge of sell-through, traffic, conversion, Average Unit Retail, Units Per Transaction, and inventory turns KPIs
- Experience with advanced planning tools such as o9, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, or Oracle
- Proven people management skills
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge assumptions using data-driven 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.
