Manager, People&Culture Business Partnership - Temporary, North Vancouver

Your opportunity at ARC’TERYX: As the Manager, People&Culture Business Partnership, you will lead our strategic partnership with our Merchandising and Footwear teams, directly supporting our Chief Merchandising Officer and General Manager of Footwear. You will drive business outcomes through the application of people programs and initiatives that align with our long‑term business strategy.

You will provide strategic guidance and expertise in organizational design, performance management, workforce planning, and change leadership to drive employee engagement and success at the individual, team, and business level.

As a trusted coach and partner to the senior leaders in your portfolio, you will enable ongoing leadership development across the business through day‑to‑day partnership and guidance.

This is a temporary role ending in October 2027 based out of our North Vancouver or Portland office. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada or United States.

Meet your Future Team: The People&Culture Business Partner team operates in strategic partnership with the business, driving the continuous evolution of people and leadership practices and fostering a culture that generates high‑performance teams, strengths‑based coaching, and values‑based leadership.

You will help grow the P&C Business Partnership function within the Merchandising and Footwear portfolio.

If you were the Manager, People&Culture Business Partnership now, here are some of the core activities you would be responsible for:

Partnering with our leaders across the business and overseeing the creation and implementation of our people strategy in alignment with our long‑term global business strategy

Providing ongoing strategic guidance and coaching to the senior leadership teams across Merchandising and Footwear

Partnering with Total Rewards to inform our evolving total rewards strategy based on business needs, and to ensure the successful implementation and communication of total rewards initiatives across your portfolio

Overseeing the activation of our global performance framework in your portfolio, including performance management, talent assessment, and succession planning

Providing strategic guidance on organizational design and structure, partnering with the leadership team to design high performing teams that will meet our evolving business needs

Driving engagement, trust, and performance across the business through sound change leadership and day‑to‑day partnership with our people

Overseeing our workforce planning process, identifying gaps between our current and future competency requirements and ensuring we have a strategic people resourcing plan in place to meet long‑term business objectives

Owning the headcount budgeting and forecasting process for your portfolio

Operating as a key member of the P&C Business Partner leadership team and driving cross‑functional P&C initiatives

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

Developing cross‑functional P&C projects from scratch and participating in business‑wide projects that aim to solve organizational pain points in support of our people strategy

Gathering and analyzing relevant people and business information to identify trends, using results to evolve existing P&C strategies

Leading cross‑functional organizational design in partnership with senior business leaders

Are you our next Manager, People&Culture Business Partnership?

You have a degree in Business and 5+ years of progressive HR experience, ideally within an apparel or retail business environment

You have previous experience working for a global company and a proven ability to quickly build an understanding of a complex global business model

You are great at influencing through strong relationships, expertise and data and can manage a complex group of stakeholders

You are a natural leader, and you’re not afraid to blaze a trail in uncharted territory

You have a highly collaborative style, and a willingness and demonstrated ability to work in teams as both a lead and supporting team member

You have the ability to coach, mentor, advise and where appropriate to help employees grow and develop 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, ability to analyze data, assess people, understand trends, and develop prioritized recommendations

You have excellent listening and communication skills with an ability to communicate large complex change

You are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to get things done right and the next moment being part of highly complex strategic business discussion

You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions

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