Manager, Strategy & Enterprise PMO

Summary

Join a dynamic team at Arc'teryx as Manager, Strategy & Enterprise PMO to support the enablement of our long-term strategic plan through cross-functional project management and strategy development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, strategy, or related field
• 5+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, management consulting, project management, consumer products and/or retail
• 3+ years of project management experience and have experience using project management software
• Demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker with the ability to translate complex information into actionable insights
• Strong understanding of retail and consumer-facing businesses
• Proven track record of successfully directing cross-functional projects
• Capacity to synthesize information into effective strategies & innovative insights, translating complex ideas into simple, actionable recommendations
• High emotional intelligence, influencing skills, and communication skills to collaborate with senior executive stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to build strategic narratives and impactful executive-level presentations
• Strong leadership, facilitation, and analytical skills
• Entrepreneurial spirit, self-starter, results driven
• Flexibility and resilience to change and ambiguity
• Commitment to ethical decision-making and doing what is right

Responsibilities

• Working to structure strategic projects with key cross functional stakeholder to ensure we are solving for the right problem, and truly seeing the opportunity before us
• Connecting cross-functional dots to ensure our strategy is executed across the organization
• Developing frameworks and approaches to allow cross functional stakeholder to solve the problems presented to them
• Developing data-informed strategies and for helping to spread a culture of insights throughout Arc’teryx
• Supporting in setting up the foundation of projects; project governance, defining ways of working, identifying key stakeholders, defining key meeting cadence, identifying key deliverables and timelines
• Creating an 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 2024 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
• Accurately assessing the change management required to successful rollout and implement the project
• Collaborating across functions to drive the annual business planning process, ensuring long-term strategies are woven into actionable annual plans
• Leading the development and ongoing management of tools, processes & governance to execute against strategic and business plans, establishing scorecard metrics to monitor and communicate performance to the plan
• Developing high impact presentations and communication tools to communicate strategic plans across the organization