Manager, Sourcing - Footwear

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Manager, Sourcing - Footwear, you are responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies to support the organization’s long term strategic plans. You will identify, evaluate, and negotiate with potential suppliers, and manage existing vendor relationships. You optimize the global supply chain to ensure products meet cost targets and on time delivery while achieving Arc’teryx’s high quality standards. You provide insight and recommend sustainable sourcing strategies for your product categories and vendors to continuously improve speed, negotiate fair product cost, support margin, and best utilize supply chain capability and efficiencies.

This role is based out of our Portland office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US.

Meet Your Future Team:

The Sourcing Team builds and executes a sustainable global sourcing strategy that enables us to deliver exceptional product at the right place, with the right quality and cost, and on-time delivery. You will partner internally with Design, Product Development, Quality, Compliance, Supply Planning, Merchandising, Sustainability, Asia Sourcing office as well as externally with our vendor partners to identify and fulfill the sourcing needs of your category and deliver all products developed and commercialized by our vendors.

If you were in the Manager, Sourcing - Footwear role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Developing and executing footwear vendor strategies to ensure capabilities and capacity to support the business’ long-term strategic goals
• Identifying potential risks in the supply chain and develop contingency plans to mitigate disruptions.
• Leading sourcing, assessment and onboarding of new factories needed to support growth, category expansion and flexibility in our supply chain
• Developing vendor relationships to foster strong collaborations that supports the successful execution of our long-term strategy
• Translating long range strategies to execute seasonal allocation plan
• Managing the execution of multi-sourced model strategy
• Overseeing footwear product cost negotiations and procedures
• Collaborating with key strategic stakeholders to ensure seasonal footwear requirements are aligned and met
• Connecting and drive progress on cross functional projects providing supply chain impacts and risk mitigation to meet business goals
• Managing processes and planning workload to ensure timelines are met to support delivery expectations
• Reporting and driving vendor performance on key metrics that deliver supply chain excellence
• Partnering with internal and external partners to provide continuous improvements in our development to manufacturing process
• Partnering with global cross functional product leaders to build best in class GTM footwear processes
• Building, coaching, and guiding a high performing team of Sourcing Specialists who facilitate seasonal costing deliverables and model commercialization
• Working closely with the Amer Sports Global Sourcing Vendor Sustainability team on quarterly business reviews and training/capacity building
• Adhering to negotiated lead times and balanced annual capacities to expedite responsible purchasing practices as outlined in the Responsible Sourcing Policy
• Uphold 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 of the things you could be working on in the future:

• Developing action plans to mitigate constraints and vendor development plans to build specialty capacity needs that support our overall sourcing strategy
• Proposing and developing innovative sourcing strategies for your product category that will create opportunities for cost savings, capacity, efficiency, speed and extend our development resources
• Continuously building manufacturing and supply chain knowledge in Design, Product and Commercialization teams to further our manufacturing innovation and efficiency

Are you our next Manager, Sourcing - Footwear?

• You have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Business or Merchandising
• You have 8+ years’ experience in footwear sourcing, design, development, production, or merchandising, ideally including 3+ years’ experience in people leadership
• You have a strong knowledge of footwear construction, material construction and properties, pattern making, costing, bill of materials, embroidery and surface applications
• You have proven business acumen and analytical skills to make data-driven decisions
• You have proven skills in problem solving, interpreting design intent and product innovation
• You have proven performance history with domestic and offshore vendors and manufacturers
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills
• You have an extreme attention to detail
• You have strong prioritization skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities
• You have strong digital dexterity, including the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and leverage data.
• You have strong computer skills in PLM software andMicrosoft Office
• You set a clear vision, align your team around common objectives, and foster commitment to these objectives
• You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
• 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