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People & Culture Business Partner Specialist, Retail - Japan

Arc'teryx· People, Culture & Transformation – Business Partnership
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Hybrid (Tokyo)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Strategic P&C partner to Retail leaders in Japan, shaping people strategies and programs to enable high performance and engagement in ARC’TERYX retail.

Responsibilities

  • Serving as the main P&C Business partner to our Retail leaders in Japan
  • Thoughtfully leading all aspects of the people retail business model
  • Supporting retail teams to create a people strategy that builds amazing teams who exceed business objectives
  • Fostering, nurturing and evolving relationships that enable rapport, trust and influence throughout the company
  • Providing advice and coaching to managers and employees on relevant business and people priorities such as; identifying key talent, succession planning, supporting recognition and rewards, developing objectives, performance management, organization design, workforce planning, learning & development and terminations
  • Identifying business and resource gaps and partnership with retail leaders on solutions
  • Gathering and analyzing relevant people and business information to identify trends and communicate recommendations to get alignment on priorities and implement improvements
  • Ensuring relevant personal-development tools and information for teams and employees are readily available, communicated, and understood – you champion personal development
  • Leading and championing companywide P&C programs for the store teams, such as the Performance Review Process, Employee Engagement Survey, and Talent Reviews
  • Developing cross-functional projects from scratch and participating in business-wide projects that aim to solve organizational pain points
  • Engaging in store and market visits with cross-functional partners to represent talent and P&C data and trends

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of progressive HR experience in retail and/or hospitality
  • You are based in the Tokyo area and can travel to stores in your region
  • You are comfortable navigating relationships, with expertise in leveraging data to manage a complex group of stakeholders
  • You highly collaborative style and a willingness and demonstrated ability to work in teams as both a leader, and supporting team member
  • You have the ability to coach, mentor, advise team members towards growth and development paths in alignment with business and personal objectives
  • You have strong project management skills with the ability to adapt to changing priorities
  • You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, easily able to analyze data, assess people, understand trends, and develop prioritized recommendations
  • You have excellent listening and communication skills, comfortable communicating large complex changes
  • You are comfortable operating in the work, and simultaneously enjoy being part of highly complex business discussion
  • You can quickly build an in depth understanding of the business, key processes, priorities and plans
  • You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
  • You can balance autonomy and collaboration
  • You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
  • You seek the best (but 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

Skills

Required:People & Culture partneringData analysis and interpretationChange management and coachingProject management
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Arc'teryx

Outdoor Clothing, Technical Outerwear, & Accessories | Arc'teryx United States

Arc'teryx is a high performance outdoor equipment company known for leading innovations in climbing, skiing and alpine technologies

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