Manager, Sourcing Business Process
Arc'teryx
- Vancouver, BC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leading the identification of gaps between business requirements and proposed solutions, and leading the evaluation of strategies to address those gaps
- Defining the business requirements for your designated business area and associated, supporting tools, while also assisting other departments in defining their own requirements
- Building, coaching, and guiding a high performing team of Project Specialists who partner with sourcing business through design, build, and implementation phases of all sourcing systems and process projects
- Driving overall business readiness for projects and initiatives
- Creating business cases for new functionality or maintenance of current practice as required
- Documenting the current and future state of business processes affected by identified projects and initiatives
- Identifying operational changes between current and future state, including new required processes
- Acting as primary contact for cross-departmental discussions to drive a common business design and data consistency
- Ensuring best practices and process optimization are built at the design stage
- Engaging stakeholders by conveying the end-state consistently, while notifying leadership of any challenges to the plan
- Collaborating closely with internal and external teams to ensure that the projects and initiatives stay on track, communicating status and potential roadblocks to leadership
- Identifying the required information to support existing systems/applications with other future tools
- Analyzing various factors to determine the optimal go live strategy for different projects
- Focusing on planning, sourcing, facilitating data migration, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and validating test transactions for the planning tool and SAP S4 hanna change requests
- Collaborating closely with BI teams to identify requirements and ensure data consistency
- Fostering a focus on sourcing, acting as the main point of contact between technology and business stakeholders
- Driving the optimization of technical and business processes
- Upholding Fair Labor Association's Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing throughout the Arc'teryx supply chain
- By working closely with the Amer Sports Global Sourcing Vendor Sustainability team on quarterly business reviews and training/capacity building (at least annually)
- By adhering to negotiated lead times and balanced annual capacities to expedite responsible purchasing practices as outlined in the Responsible Sourcing Policy
- Supporting with the re-design of an integrated business and technical plan to support the future growth strategies
- Designing, creating, and communicating high impact presentations to communicate effectively with business stakeholders
- You have a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent certification), preferably in Project Management, and/or equivalent 3 years experience in managing projects
- You have 5+ years work experience within Supply Chain, ideally including 3+ years of people leadership experience
- You have 5+ years report building experience
- You have expertise in project management tools and systems
- You have a drive to learn and participate
- You are an excellent collaborator while also able to work effectively with a team
- You are adaptable and forward thinking
- You have solid knowledge of SAP and/or equivalent ERP/ Planning systems and order management 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 advanced analytical skills with a strong aptitude for spreadsheets
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and exceptional attention to detail
- You are able to travel internationally as required
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- You are able to balance autonomy and collaboration
- You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
- You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
- Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it