Director, Merchandising - APAC

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX: As the Director, Merchandising, you set the regional product and assortment strategy for the APAC region in alignment with our global product strategies and brand direction for long-range, profitable, seasonal assortments and line plans. You build, lead and mentor a team who create new ways of working across product lines and categories, to deliver a unique commercialization experience. Serving as the voice of our APAC consumer, you’ll partner to translate our design vision into compelling, consumer-centric product framework plans, realized through merchandising execution. You build bridges within your teams and cross-functionally to ensure the Go to Market (GTM) plan is realized, guiding the representation of our product experience through all channels. This role will be based out of our Tokyo office and is required to be performed onsite. This role will involve a high frequency of travel within the APAC market, as well as to our Headquarters in North Vancouver, BC. Meet your future team: The Regional Merchandising team is responsible for delivering regional, seasonal product assortments that support the overall global product direction and regional business achievement. In partnership with the Product Line Management (PLM), Merchandise Planning & Allocations, and Go-to-Market teams, Merchants drive company sales, gross margin, and inventory productivity goals, in both our wholesale and vertical channels. This team translates market and consumer insights into actionable product strategies, ensuring both global consistency and regional relevance.