Director, Global Strategy - Enterprise Planning
Arc'teryx· Strategy – Strategy & Enterprise PMO
Hybrid (North Vancouver, BC)CA$149k - CA$195kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Director of Global Enterprise Planning on the Strategy team responsible for architecting and managing the enterprise planning system that connects long-term strategy to annual priorities, resource allocation, and performance accountability. Owns end-to-end enterprise planning process and related operating infrastructure, partnering with Finance and senior leaders to drive planning rigor across a global consumer products business.
Responsibilities
- Owning the design, governance, and continuous evolution of the enterprise planning system, ensuring strategic planning, annual operating planning, resource allocation, and performance reporting operate as an integrated enterprise process
- Leading the execution of the enterprise planning cycle, including Strategic Planning Kickoff, Long-Term Strategic Planning, and Quarterly Business Reviews, and partnering with Finance on Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and budget prioritization connected to business strategy
- Establishing and governing the enterprise planning cadence, ensuring cross-functional alignment, decision readiness, and the timely progression of key strategic milestones
- Building and maintaining the decision frameworks, governance structures, and planning standards that support enterprise-wide prioritization, accountability, and effective decision-making
- Partnering closely with Finance and business leaders to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, resource allocation decisions, and measurable outcomes
- Leading the planning and coordination of Executive Committee and Board reviews, ensuring strategic issues are clearly framed, decisions are supported by relevant insights, and resulting actions are effectively tracked
- Managing the enterprise portfolio of strategic initiatives, tracking progress, interdependencies, risks, and outcomes while escalating issues requiring executive attention
- Developing scenarios, business cases, and trade-off analyses that enable leaders to evaluate opportunities, risks, investments, and resource allocation decisions
- Providing fact-based analysis, insights, and recommendations to support executive decision-making, prioritization, and enterprise performance discussions
- Establishing enterprise performance management frameworks, scorecards, KPIs, and reporting mechanisms that drive accountability, transparency, and execution against strategic objectives
- Driving alignment across executive leadership, functions, regions, Finance, and Amer Sports to establish a consistent enterprise planning and performance management operating model
- Maintaining visibility to key strategic and execution risks, ensuring mitigation plans are developed, monitored, and integrated into enterprise planning processes
- Developing executive-level communications, planning documents, and leadership briefings that translate complex business information into clear priorities, recommendations, and actions
- Serving as the steward of enterprise planning effectiveness, continuously evaluating planning processes, governance, and reporting mechanisms to improve decision quality, organizational alignment, and business outcomes
- Developing and maintaining the tools, templates, governance processes, and planning methodologies that strengthen enterprise planning capability and support execution against strategic and business plans
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, strategy, or related field
- 10+ years of professional work experience in strategic planning, management consulting, project management, consumer products and/or retail
- Demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker with systems-level perspective
- Credible executive partner with ability to communicate with C-level and functional leaders to translate complexity into decisions
- Significant experience partnering with Finance on resource allocation, budget prioritization, and performance tracking
- Sharp analytical capability and strong written communication; ability to build rigorous frameworks and executive briefs
- Experience across regional and global operating models, ideally with exposure to retail or consumer-facing businesses
- Strong organizational skills with adaptability and willingness to adjust plans as needed
- High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and ability to influence without authority across senior stakeholders
- Commitment to high standards of quality in thinking, clarity of communication, and follow-through
Skills
Required:Strategic planningFinance partnershipExecutive communication
Benefits
- Health & wellbeing - Extended health, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, fertility benefits, 24/7 EAP
- Financial wellbeing - RRSP matching and eligibility for Arc'teryx Annual Incentive Plan and ESOP where applicable
- Time & Flexibility - Paid time off, wellness time, No Wasted Day program
- Family support - Parental leave top-up and nesting period for new parents
- Growth, community & gear - Professional development, Arc'teryx Academies, Employee Belonging Councils, employee discounts and Pro Deals
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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