Department: Strategy & Enterprise PMO
Reports to: Sr. Director, Strategy & Enterprise PMO
Location: North Vancouver, BC
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As the Manager, Strategy & Enterprise PMO you will support the enablement of our long-term strategic plan, through cross-functional project management and strategy development. You will be responsible for driving key projects forward; including defining the timelines, developing, and managing the project plan, delivering key areas of work, and working with the team to see progress and unblock challenges along the way.
You thrive in an agile environment and can balance multiple projects at once. You connect dots and can foresee barriers and opportunities with implementing change. You can help simplify complex scenarios and bring clarity to confusion. You bring solutions and appropriate recommendations to solve for anticipated needs.
This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work.
Meet Your Future Team:
The Strategy & Enterprise PMO team partners with 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. The team provides 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 to connect our strategy to our annual operating budget and annual strategic plan.
If you were the Manager, Strategy & Enterprise PMO, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Working to structure strategic projects with key cross functional stakeholder to ensure we are solving for the right problem, and truly seeing the opportunity before us.
- Connecting cross-functional dots to ensure our strategy is executed across the organization.
- Developing frameworks and approaches to allow cross functional stakeholder to solve the problems presented to them.
- Developing data-informed strategies and for helping to spread a culture of insights throughout Arc’teryx.
- Supporting in setting up the foundation of projects; project governance, defining ways of working, identifying key stakeholders, defining key meeting cadence, identifying key deliverables and timelines.
- Creating an end-to-end project plan and enrolling key partners to deliver necessary elements to ensure project success.
- Developing comprehensive stakeholder engagement plans and ensuring the right people are in the right conversations.
- Developing content and prepping for key project meetings; status meetings, weekly working sessions, SteerCo’s, etc.
- Driving project management reporting across 2024 strategic projects.
- Working cross-functionally to identify risks, create proactive solutions and report to senior leaders.
- Driving and delivering project work for the projects that you are overseeing.
- Accurately assessing the change management required to successful rollout and implement the project.
- Collaborating across functions to drive the annual business planning process, ensuring long-term strategies are woven into actionable annual plans.
- Leading the development and ongoing management of tools, processes & governance to execute against strategic and business plans, establishing scorecard metrics to monitor and communicate performance to the plan.
- Developing high impact presentations and communication tools to communicate strategic plans across the organization.
Are you our next Manager of Strategy & Enterprise PMO?
- You have a bachelor’s degree in business, strategy, or related field.
- You have 5+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, management consulting, project management, consumer products and/or retail.
- You have 3+ years of project management experience and have experience using project management software.
- You have a demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker with the ability to translate complex information into actionable insights.
- You have a strong understanding of retail and consumer-facing businesses.
- You have a proven track record of successfully directing cross-functional projects.
- You can work in and bring structure to ambiguous environments.
- You have the capacity to synthesize information into effective strategies & innovative insights, translating complex ideas into simple, actionable recommendations.
- You have high emotional intelligence, influencing skills, and communication skills to collaborate with senior executive stakeholders.
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to build strategic narratives and impactful executive-level presentations.
- You have strong leadership, facilitation, and analytical skills.
- You have an entrepreneurial spirit, are a self-starter, and results driven.
- You demonstrate flexibility and resilience to change and ambiguity.
- You have a commitment to ethical decision-making and doing what is right.
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.
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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.