Product Impact Specialist Jobs

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

In this newly created role of Product Impact Specialist, reporting to the Director of Sustainability, you will be responsible for creating and building the capacity for Arc’teryx product teams to understand, measure and make decisions which ultimately reduce the environmental impact of the products we put out into the market. You will identify the tools we need to effectively quantify product environmental impact and provide onboarding, training and support to teams in their use. This work will be building crucial capacity for our product organization in our journey towards circular product creation and a lower impact mode of operation.

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:

The Arc’teryx sustainability team is small, mighty and integrated into business functions for the highest impact. We have a core team of passionate experts responsible for developing strategy, programming, and measuring progress against our company sustainability goals. We work from within our own team of Supply Chain as well as with key partners and teams throughout the organization to develop and implement strategy, programming, metrics and tools into how we do business.

If you were the Product Impact Specialist now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to build the processes for Arc’teryx product teams for how and when to develop and make use of product impact information.
• Partnering with our environmental data analyst to ensure our product impact insights can support our climate data collection, reporting and strategy and vice versa.
• Determining the appropriate strategy for product impact measurement and implementing that strategy across the product organization.
• Developing evergreen training materials as well as leading workshops and training sessions to build capacity related to environmental impact.
• Defining the options and recommending a tool to internal teams (design, materials, product development, sustainability) to measure and understand product impact.

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

• Supporting in the development of roadmaps to achieve materials and circularity goals.
• Collaborating with internal and external experts to establish means of measuring the impact of repaired or resold to support demonstrating impact of circular business models.

Are you our next Product Impact Specialist?

• You are engaged and passionate about our product and industry environmental impacts and are committed to not only identifying solutions but driving change.
• You are an independent worker, exceptionally organized, operate with integrity, and maintain personal accountability.
• You have demonstrated experience developing training and educational materials and sessions.
• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
• You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues, with an unwavering commitment to seeking the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions
• You have a degree or diploma in environmental science, sustainability, product development, apparel design or other relevant field.
• You are driven by curiosity and learning about the needs of a range of business partners
• You have a willingness to prototype and learn by doing
• You can effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
• You thrive in a fast-moving environment.
• You are highly collaborative with demonstrated effectiveness at building strong partnerships inside and outside your core team.
• You have strong communication and presentation skills.
• You have 3+ years’ hands-on technical experience quantifying product impact and/or using product impact tools in a consumer goods, apparel or footwear setting.
• You have hands-on, technical know-how and enjoy using it.

Equal Opportunity

Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance.

Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.

All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.

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