Director, Global Strategy - Arc'teryx, North Vancouver

About the role

As the Director of Global Enterprise Planning on the Strategy team at Arc'teryx, you architect the planning system that connects long-term strategy to annual priorities, resource allocation, and performance accountability. This systems-level role owns the infrastructure that keeps leadership aligned, decisions grounded, and execution honest across a complex, global business. You will own the enterprise planning process end-to-end while serving as a credible executive partner working directly with functional leaders and Finance.

Core activities of the role include:

• 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
• Establishing and governing the enterprise planning cadence, ensuring cross-functional alignment, decision readiness, and the timely progression of key strategic milestones
• 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
• Leading the planning and coordination of Executive Committee and Board reviews, ensuring strategic issues are clearly framed, decisions are supported by relevant insights, and resulting actions are effectively tracked
• 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

Skills and experience

To be successful in this enterprise leadership position, candidates must meet the following educational and professional criteria:

• You have a bachelor's degree in business, strategy, or related field
• You have 10+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, management consulting, project management, consumer products and/or retail
• You have a demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker
• You think in systems – you can see how the strategic planning connects to the budget planning, how the QBR connects to accountability, and how the strategic calendar creates or destroys leadership bandwidth
• You are a credible executive partner with the communication skills to work directly with a CDR and functional leaders, and to translate complexity into decisions
• You have significant experience partnering with Finance on resource allocation, budget prioritization, and performance tracking
• You bring sharp analytical capability and strong written communication, and you can build a rigorous framework and write a clear executive brief
• You have experience working across regional and global operating models, ideally with exposure to retail or consumer-facing businesses
• You are organized without being rigid, and you know when the plan needs to change and how to move the system accordingly
• You demonstrate high emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and the ability to influence without authority across senior stakeholders
• You hold yourself and others to a high standard for quality of thinking, clarity of communication, and follow-through

Your impact

Future initiatives and areas of impact for this position include:

• 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
• Partnering with Finance and regional teams to develop integrated financial and strategic planning models that connect long-range ambition to annual resource reality
• 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

Compensation and perks

The salary range for this role is CAD$149,000 - CAD$195,000. Most new team members join between the start and midpoint of the range. Arc'teryx supports team members through total rewards designed to sustain both work and life:

• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage, including mental health support, fertility benefits, gender-affirming care and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• RRSP matching and eligibility for Arc'teryx Annual Incentive Plan and access to Employee Stock Purchase program (ESPP) where applicable
• Paid time off, wellness time, and No Wasted Day program (dedicated paid days to get outside & explore)
• Parental leave top-up and a nesting period for new parents
• Professional development opportunities, Arc'teryx Academies (outdoor skill-building events), Employee Belonging Councils, and access to employee discounts and Pro Deals (exclusive discounted pricing on gear)