Full-time
ARC'TERYX

Senior Manager, Colour Operations

North Vancouver, BC (Corporate)
Hybrid
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Department: Raw Materials

Reports to: Vice President, Product Creation Development

Location: North Vancouver, BC

 

Your opportunity at Arc’teryx:

As the Senior Manager, Colour Operations, you lead a team of Colourists to deliver colour accuracy, ensuring all new materials align with our colour design vision. As a strategic, cross-functional partner, you lead across the organization with overall business health in mind. You identify both bigger picture and day to day needs of the team, and put a plan of action into achieving them. You have your own projects, and you collaborate with cross functional partners from Colour Design, Raw Materials Development, Design, Global Product Management, Process Operations, Raw Material Quality and Raw Materials Planning and Sourcing teams to ensure a smooth flow of information across functions.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Meet Your Future Team:

Colour Operations is a close-knit team of hard-working collaborators. 

If you were in the Senior Manager, Colour Operations now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

  • Building, coaching, and guiding a high performing team of Colourists
  • Creating an agile culture of evolution and growth, enabling the team to continuously evolve to meet the needs of the business
  • Overseeing colour operations for all product categories, ensuring on time delivery of all samples
  • Consistently seeking ways to evolve department process, organization, automation, and collaboration by identifying special projects that are aligned with team members’ strengths
  • Researching and implementing ways to improve communication channels; encouraging collaboration with cross-functional and external partners
  • Collaborating across multiple departments to provide leadership and strategic inputs
  • Leading business critical projects with a diverse set of partners
  • Are you our next Senior Manager, Colour Operations?

  • You have 7+ years’ experience in an operational role in the apparel industry, including a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a colour environment
  • You have proven leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to coach and mentor others
  • You have strong relationship building skills and the ability to influence and collaborate cross-functionally
  • You have strong written and verbal communications skills
  • You have colour acuity
  • You have excellent organizational skills, with a passion for evolving process
  • You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues, seeking the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
  • You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
  • You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
  • You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
  • Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
  • Compensation:

    The salary range for this role is CAD$126,000 - CAD$165,000