Director, Global Strategy
- Enterprise Planning Your Prospect at ARC’TERYX:As the Director of Global Enterprise Planning on the Strategy team, you architect the planning system that connects Arc’teryx’s long-term strategy to annual priorities, resource allocation, and performance accountability. You own the enterprise planning process end-to-end – Strategic Planning Kickoff, Long-term Strategic Planning, AOP/budget prioritization, and Quarterly Business Reporting – while also owning the broader operating infrastructure: Excom and Board of Directors preparation, the strategic calendar, and the decision frameworks that ensure the right conversations happen with the right information at the right time.
You bring both architectural thinking and executional precision. You are a credible executive partner, comfortable working directly with functional leaders and Finance to drive planning rigour across a complex, global business.
This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid work (or remote Canada with travels to North Vancouver, BC). Meet Your Future Team: The Strategy team is a trusted partner to 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. We provide 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,



and the development of an integrated performance management framework to connect our strategy to our annual operating budget and tactical operating plan. Owning the design, governance, and continuous evolution of the enterprise planning system, ensuring strategic planning, annual operating planning, resource allocation, and performance reporting operate as an integrated enterprise process Leading the execution of the enterprise planning cycle, including Strategic Planning Kickoff, Long-Term Strategic Planning, and Quarterly Business Reviews, and partnering with Finance on Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and budget prioritization connected to business strategy Building and maintaining the decision frameworks, governance structures, and planning standards that support enterprise-wide prioritization, accountability, and effective decision-making Partnering closely with Finance and business leaders to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, resource allocation decisions, and measurable outcomes Managing the enterprise portfolio of strategic initiatives, tracking progress, interdependencies, risks, and outcomes while escalating issues requiring executive attention Developing scenarios, business cases, and trade‑off analyses that enable leaders to evaluate opportunities, risks, investments, and resource allocation decisions Providing fact‑based analysis, insights, and recommendations to support executive decision‑making, prioritization,



and enterprise performance discussions Establishing enterprise performance management frameworks, scorecards, KPIs, and reporting mechanisms that drive accountability, transparency, and execution against strategic objectives Driving alignment across executive leadership, functions, regions, Finance, and Amer Sports to establish a consistent enterprise planning and performance management operating model Maintaining visibility to key strategic and execution risks, ensuring mitigation plans are developed, monitored, and integrated into enterprise planning processes Developing executive‑level communications, planning documents, and leadership briefings that translate complex business information into clear priorities, recommendations, and actions Serving as the steward of enterprise planning effectiveness, continuously evaluating planning processes, governance, and reporting mechanisms to improve decision quality, organizational alignment, and business outcomes Developing and maintaining the tools, templates, governance processes, and planning methodologies that strengthen enterprise planning capability and support execution against strategic and business plans Future Projects Evolving the enterprise planning system as the business scales—adding new planning horizons, integrating regional complexity, and improving the speed and quality of decisions Building repeatable frameworks and playbooks for planning processes that reduce dependency on heroic individual effort and increase organizational capability Developing the next generation of performance management tools—moving from tracking to accountability, and from reporting to action Supporting the Strategy team’s broader operating model evolution as new capability areas come online You have a bachelor’s degre

📌 Director, Global Strategy (North Vancouver)
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📍 North Vancouver