Manager, Merchandise Planning – APAC

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Manager, Merchandise Planning – APAC, you own the financial plan for your region, translating corporate targets into Merchandise Financial Plans that balance revenue, margin, and inventory across all channels. You are the connective tissue between financial strategy and integrated execution, leading alignment across Demand, Inventory, and Allocation while managing trade-offs that directly impact business performance. This role offers the opportunity to build and develop a high-performing Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) team, establish planning best practices, and drive the maturity of merchandise financial planning in your region. You will operate in a cross-functional environment where your financial judgment and planning leadership shape real outcomes in a fast-moving, growth-oriented business.

This role can be hired remotely. Business operations occur across APAC time zones.

Meet Your Future Team:

The APAC Planning & Allocations – APAC team translates business priorities into integrated plans across Retail and eCommerce, incorporating local demand signals, channel strategies, and market context. The team positions inventory effectively by channel, supports replenishment and inventory flow decisions, and drives aligned decisions that support growth, profitability, and customer experience across Demand Planning, Inventory Planning, and Allocations.

If you were in the Manager, Merchandise Planning – APAC role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Translating corporate financial targets into regional Merchandise Financial Plans, driving alignment between top-down direction and bottom-up builds across all channels
• Monitoring in-season financial performance, identifying risks and opportunities and driving adjustments to forecasts and investment plans as needed
• Representing the MFP team in monthly sales and operations planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) forums, aligning financial plans with demand and supply constraints and ensuring inventory targets support revenue and margin objectives
• Leading integrated planning across Demand, Inventory, and Allocation, managing trade-offs between revenue, margin, and working capital as the business evolves
• Establishing best practices in planning cadence and governance, driving consistency and rigor across the regional merchandise financial planning process
• Managing, coaching, and developing the regional MFP team, establishing clear objectives and building a high-performing planning function.

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future

• Leading planning maturity initiatives and system optimization efforts that raise the bar on how the regional MFP team plans, reports, and collaborates
• Building and codifying MFP governance frameworks and playbooks that can scale across the region as the business grows