Category Manager, Indirect Procurement

Department: Finance

Reports to: Director, Indirect Procurement

Location: North Vancouver, BC, or Hybrid

 

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

The Category Manager, Indirect Procurement, owns sourcing and category strategy for Commercial Retail, Store Development and Facilities, and may support additional indirect spend categories based on organizational priorities and business needs. You will report to the Director, Indirect Procurement.

This role serves as a strategic business partner to senior stakeholders, driving value creation through category management, supplier relationship management, procurement governance, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement initiatives across Arc’teryx’s North American, and global business functions.  

 

Meet Your Future Team:

You will be responsible for assigned categories along with being agile to take on new initiatives as they arise. The function sits within the broader Arc’teryx Finance organization.   

You will be entering at a pivotal time as we build out the foundation and guide the business through procurement transformation. As part of the growing procurement organization, this role will help define and evolve procurement practices, establish category management processes, and influence how procurement engages with the business across Arc’teryx and Amer Sports.

• Leading complex RFx processes end to end: creation, cost analysis, negotiation, and contract execution.
• Building robust business cases and supplier evaluation methodologies to support executive decision making
• Driving supplier negotiations involving commercial terms, service models, performance measures, sustainability requirements and continuous improvement commitments.

Analyzing spend, building total-cost-of-ownership models and setting savings baselines for your categories.

Tracking, validating and reporting savings and value delivered to Procurement and Finance leadership.

Developing category insights through spend analytics, supplier market intelligence and benchmarking activities.

Identifying and quantifying cost reduction, cost avoidance, process improvement and value creation opportunities.

Establishing value creation pipelines and supporting annual budgeting and forecasting activities through procurement-driven initiatives

Presenting sourcing outcomes, business cases and value realization results to senior leadership.

Managing supplier performance and relationships so the organization’s expectations are met.

Developing supplier relationship management (SRM) strategies for key suppliers.

Partnering with key suppliers to identify innovation, operational improvement, and sustainability opportunities.

Partnering with senior leaders and stakeholders across functions and countries on procurement projects.

Acting as a trusted advisor to business leaders by providing market intelligence, procurement expertise and strategic sourcing recommendations

Influencing stakeholders without direct authority and building alignment across complex matrix organizations.

Advising internal stakeholders on sourcing and procurement capabilities, policies and processes.

Championing the Global procurement policy, tools, systems and procedures.

Helping build the foundation of the Indirect Procurement function through process improvements, best practices and excellence projects.

Taking on other procurement-related special projects as needed.

Contributing to the development and implementation of procurement governance, policies, standards and category management methodologies.

Advancing procurement maturity and enterprise value through process standardization, transformation initiatives, systems adoption, stakeholder engagement, change management, and implementation of best practices across Arc'teryx and Amer Sports.

You have 5+ years professional experience in the procurement field or comparable experience, ideally in a global company with a comparable size and complexity as Arc’teryx

You have a minimum of 3+ years of experience leading as a Strategic Sourcing Manager or Category Manager in Procurement

You have a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Business Process Management, Finance, STEM, Marketing, or equivalent experience.

You have strong ability to communicate and build relationships with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

You have strong commercial acumen, financial analysis and business case development skills.

You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity 

You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration

You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement

You have knowledge and experience in:

• Category management framework
• Developing and implementing category strategies
• leading complex RFx projects
• leading negotiations; good track record of delivering sustainable improvements and savings.
• contracting / contract management.
• It’s a plus if you have:
  • Experience sourcing in retail real estate, store development or facilities (for example construction services, FF&E, facilities maintenance or store operations).
  • Experience with SAP Ariba P2P or similar procurement tools, MS products, contract management tools and eSourcing tools.
  • An SCMP, ISM or other professional procurement designation.
  • Experience in a vertical retail organization.
  • Experience working in a greenfield environment, building a procurement function or its processes from scratch.
  • You are comfortable working in a matrix organization.
  • Ability to travel including international travel as required.

The salary range for this role is CAD$108,000 ~ CAD$142,000

Equal Opportunity