The Role
Lead and elevate Asia-based sourcing operations, translating corporate objectives into actionable plans while fostering supplier performance, innovation, and compliance.
Summary Generated by Built In
Department: Supply Chain
Reports to: Vice President, Sourcing
Location: Hong Kong
Your opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As the Senior Director, Sourcing in Hong Kong Sourcing Office, you will lead and elevate our Asia-based sourcing operations, serving as the regional anchor for supplier engagement and execution of global sourcing objectives. You will be responsible for translating corporate sourcing objectives into actionable sourcing plans, delivering supplier performance, buy-readiness, and operational excellence. Your leadership will be instrumental in driving agility, innovation, and cost efficiency across our vendor network, while upholding sustainability and compliance standards. This role is pivotal in bridging global strategy with in-region execution, enabling a resilient and responsive supply chain that supports our growth and brand integrity.
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 Product Development, Commercialization, Finance, Raw Materials, Quality, Planning, and Sustainability, as well as externally with our vendor partners to execute our strategy.
If you were the Senior Director, Sourcing in our Hong Kong Sourcing Office, here are some of the core activities you would be responsible for:
- Building, leading, and mentoring a high performing Sourcing team, fostering core competencies and capabilities in delivering a world class supply chain
- Representing the region in executive-level planning and decision making
- Aligning regional strategy with business, global sourcing and supply chain goals
- Overseeing and optimizing supplier relationship and performance through direct engagement, collaboration and partnership
- Contributing to 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
- Playing a key role in shaping strategic direction by providing market intelligence, regional insights and operational feedback
- Supporting business initiatives by collaborating with global leadership and translating strategy into regional execution
- Leading the search strategy for new suppliers with robust sourcing criteria, evaluation and qualification framework
- Providing leadership and expert insight into seasonal planning discussions, offering recommendations and operational perspectives
- Leading the seasonal/monthly PO process and WIP management, delivering On-Time-In-Full to meet business requirements
- Fostering a culture of growth and development across the Sourcing org and regional teams
- Building a transparent costing methodology with strong standards to deliver the right product costs and meet margin targets
- Designing comprehensive onboarding and supplier development programs for all new and incumbent suppliers to drive successful execution
- Negotiating, managing and safeguarding the terms and conditions of our supplier agreement
- Upholding the Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing through the Arc’teryx supply chain
- 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 framework that assures the long-term availability of quality products
- Building best-in-class supply chain processes that enhance our Innovation-to-Consumer efficiency
- Fostering a continuous improvement mindset that optimizes our supply chain
- Building a talent pipeline and creating career development opportunities that inspire and challenge the teams
Are you our next Senior Director, Sourcing?
- You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Apparel or Textile Design, Merchandising, along with 15+ years of leadership experience in global sourcing and supply chain
- You have deep experience in Asia-based manufacturing and vendor management
- You have in-depth knowledge of the end-to-end apparel go-to-market process
- You have proven skills at problem solving and strategy execution
- 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
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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Apparel or Textile Design, Merchandising
- 15+ years of leadership experience in global sourcing and supply chain
- Deep experience in Asia-based manufacturing and vendor management
- In-depth knowledge of the end-to-end apparel go-to-market process
- Proven skills at problem solving and strategy execution
- Proven performance history with domestic and offshore vendors and manufacturers
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Strong digital dexterity, including the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and leverage data
- Extensive knowledge of raw materials, technical construction, and sourcing
- Proven people management skills
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.
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The Company
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.
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