Global outdoor apparel and footwear brand scaling enterprise operations across 100+ markets
Columbia Sportswear operates a multi-brand outdoor retailer (Columbia, Sorel, prAna, Mountain Hardwear) with 5,001–10,000 employees and presence in over 100 countries. The tech stack reveals heavy enterprise infrastructure—Azure, SAP (FI/CO, HANA, BW), Dynamics 365, ServiceNow—paired with emerging adoption of Shopify POS and displacement of Salesforce, indicating a shift toward unified commerce and supply-chain modernization. Hiring is heavily weighted to sales (179 roles), with operational challenges centered on store profitability, inventory optimization, and compliance, matching the company's active projects around sample management, SAP S/4HANA integration, and digital transformation.
Notable leadership hires: Digital Sales Director, Finance Director, eCommerce Director
Columbia Sportswear Company is a publicly traded outdoor lifestyle brand headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with a 80-year history. The company markets apparel, footwear, and accessories under four brand umbrellas—Columbia, Sorel, prAna, and Mountain Hardwear—across retail stores, direct-to-consumer channels, and wholesale partners in over 100 countries. Operations span manufacturing, product development, global supply chain, and retail management, with notable backend systems including SAP (for financial and manufacturing processes), Azure cloud infrastructure, and emerging point-of-sale modernization via Shopify. Current focus areas include inventory flow, store profitability, production capacity, and compliance management.
Microsoft Azure (DevOps, Service Bus, Logic Apps, Data Factory, Synapse), .NET/C#, SAP (FI/CO, HANA, BW, S/4HANA), Dynamics 365, Databricks, SQL, Power BI, ServiceNow, Jira, and Shopify POS (recently adopted).
21 countries: United States, Canada, India, China, Germany, France, Austria, Spain, Italy, UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Denmark, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, and Bangladesh.
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