As a Wholesale Demand Planner - EMEA, you own the regional and account-level demand forecast that connects wholesale commercial signals to supply and inventory decisions. You sit at the intersection of data and cross-functional partnership, translating orderbook dynamics, customer commitments, and assortment launches into a forward-looking demand view that the business can act on. You will build and mature forecasting processes in a planning environment that is evolving, which means the work you do will directly shape how demand planning operates across the wholesale channel. This role offers the opportunity to develop deep functional expertise while working closely with commercial, supply, and finance partners across a high-growth global brand
Meet Your Future Team:
The Wholesale Demand Planning - EMEA team translates global demand strategy into market-relevant plans by enriching the global demand plan with wholesale customer insights, account-level data, and on-the-ground market signals. The team bridges global planning intent with regional commercial reality, ensuring the demand plan reflects what is happening across wholesale accounts and channels.
If you were in the Wholesale Demand Planner - EMEA role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Developing and maintaining a rolling 12–18-month demand forecast at the regional and account level, incorporating orderbook data, customer commitments, and statistical models
- Generating baseline statistical forecasts and reconciling top-down financial targets with bottom-up SKU-level projections
- Evaluating multiple demand signals, including orderbook activity, sell-through performance, customer point-of-sale data (as available), and market trends to continuously improve forecast quality
- Participating in the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle to build and align a consensus demand plan across regional and global stakeholders
- Owning forecast accuracy and bias, driving continuous improvement in forecast performance
- Driving forecast governance processes, ensuring assumptions, risks and forecast changes are documented, aligned and communicated across stakeholders
- Partnering cross-functionally with Merchandise Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, Account Services, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), and Commercial to align the demand plan with business strategy
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Improving forecast accuracy through enhanced statistical modeling, process discipline, and tighter integration of account demand signals
- Developing scenario and risk planning frameworks to surface demand risks and supply constraints ahead of key buy decisions
- Strengthening the connection between new product forecasting, lifecycle management, and regional assortment planning
Are you our next Wholesale Demand Planner - EMEA?
- You have a bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or a related field
- You have 3-5+ years of experience in Demand Planning, Merchandise Planning, or Forecasting, preferably within a retail or wholesale environment
- You have strong demand forecasting experience, including statistical forecasting knowledge and hands-on experience building baseline and account-level forecasts
- You have strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to identify demand risks and translate them into actionable mitigation steps
- You have advanced Excel and data manipulation skills, with the ability to reconcile complex data sets and translate outputs into clear business recommendations
- You have a strong understanding of retail KPIs and how they connect to demand planning decisions across the wholesale channel
- You have experience with new product forecasting and lifecycle management
- You have experience with advanced planning tools such as o9, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, Oracle (preferred)
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or a related field
- 3–5+ years of experience in demand planning, merchandise planning, or forecasting, preferably in a retail or wholesale environment
- Strong demand forecasting experience, including statistical forecasting and building baseline and account-level forecasts
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including identifying demand risks and developing mitigation steps
- Advanced Excel and data manipulation skills
- Understanding of retail KPIs and their connection to wholesale demand planning decisions
- Experience with new product forecasting and lifecycle management
- Experience with advanced planning tools such as o9, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, or Oracle
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.
