Project Manager Retail Strategic Initiatives at ARC'TERYX

Department: Retail Strategic Initiatives

Reports to: Manager, Retail Strategic Initiatives

Location: North Vancouver, B.C.

Your opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Project Manager, Retail Strategic Initiatives you will support in the enablement of our retail stores, through cross-functional project management. You be responsible for driving key retail 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 are connected to life in retail and can foresee barriers and opportunities with implementing change. You bring solutions and appropriate recommendations to solve for anticipated needs.

This role is primarily based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work.  Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Meet Your Future Team:

Retail Strategic Initiatives responsible driving and delivering global scalable strategies to attain our business goals.  The team is the conduit between the stores and the cross-functional partners, aligning, projects, strategies, to deliver the future to our retail fleet. 

• Supporting in setting up the foundation of the project; project governance, defining ways of working, identifying key stakeholders, defining key meeting cadence, identifying key deliverables and timelines
• Creating and 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 2023 retail 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
• Providing input and guidance for the overarching change management and training strategy for 2023 retail strategic projects
• Accurately assessing the change management required to successful rollout and implement the project 

• Supporting talent and people related projects such as Workforce Management
• Developing omnichannel enablement projects such as Point of Sale & RFID
• Creating data and reporting 

• You have a Bachelor’s degree or post-secondary education in business, or related field
• You have 5+ years work experience within a retail support function
• You have 3+ years of project management experience and have experience using project management software
• You are able to articulate critical communication to leadership teams, functional departments, retail leaders, and peers  
• You have demonstrated high level decision making and can hold people accountable to timelines 
• You have strong communication skills and can facilitate cross-functional conversations
• You have a background in change management and training
• You have experience developing training content and writing succinct communications
• You have working knowledge of retail systems and in-store processes
• You are able to step in and take charge with minimum instruction
• You are able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks within tight deadlines
• You have a background in change management and training for large-scale projects to cross functional teams  
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and exceptional attention to detail
• You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do 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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