Sustainability Coordinator
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Department: Sustainability Reports to: Director, Sustainability Transformation Location: North Vancouver Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX: Arc’teryx has ambitious sustainability goals.
About this role
Department: Sustainability
Reports to: Director, Sustainability Transformation
Location: North Vancouver
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
Arc’teryx has ambitious sustainability goals. As Sustainability Coordinator, you are stepping into a dynamic role at the intersection of innovation and impact. You will focus initially on the Circularity team where you will help advance our purpose to Leave It Better. You will contribute to initiatives focused on developing products built for the circular economy and waste reduction.
Using your analytical skills, you will develop analyses that support teams in understanding priority gaps and what needs to be done to overcome them in pursuit of our Sustainability goals. You will provide proactive training and real-time support to functional partners in cross-functional teams, and you will onboard individuals and teams to the work. You will create new tools and processes, making existing ones more efficient, providing support across the sustainability team on important topics.
This role is primarily based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
Meet Your Future Team:
Our Sustainability team is part of the broader Business Enablement organization. We collaborate across departments and with partners at Arc'teryx and Amer Sports to deliver meaningful progress towards our priority KPIs.
If you were the Sustainability Coordinator now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing today:
Facilitating learning and engagement with cross-functional teams by onboarding them to the Circular Product Program, supporting cross-functional workshops at stage gates (e.g. Seasonal Circular Product Workshop, Showcase) and providing hands-on training
Conducting Circular BOM Analyses (CBAs) to track progress of models on the Circular Roadmap and providing guidance on closing the gap to target
Supporting the creation of our end-of-life strategy and target setting and tracking
Mapping and tracking excess raw materials
Supporting the creation of tools, guidance, processes and SOPs to enable teams
Creating documentation to provide auditable information and to advance progress towards commitments
Conducting industry benchmarking and ad-hoc research
Revising and updating processes to increase efficiency and integrate learnings
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
Conduct industry research to support the development of sustainability guidance on emergent topics
Contribute to the development of criteria and policies for our three sustainability pillars – Climate, Circular and Worker Well-being
Support the automation of CBAs through Centric or other technologies
Help integrate circularity data into decision making
Are you our next Sustainability Coordinator?
You have an undergraduate and/or graduate degree related to sustainability, circularity and/or design, or other relevant topics or equivalent experience
You have a 1-2 years of experience in a Sustainability-related role
You have previous experience within Sustainability, ideally in the apparel industry
You have an interest in fashion design and the product creation process
You bring attention to detail and think critically
You have experience analysing quantitative data in Microsoft Excel and building your own Excel sheets and PowerPoint presentations
You have strong organisational skills with the ability to balance multiple tasks and tight deadlines
You have a collaborative approach and can foster strong working relationships
You think outside of the box, have a track record as a creative problem solver and apply design thinking in your work
You are highly collaborative with demonstrated effectiveness at building strong partnerships inside and outside your core team
You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
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
You are positive, optimistic and approach things with a good sense of humour
Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it