Product Manager
Key Responsibilities:
Partners with senior leaders on program level strategy development and execution.
Contributes to successful continuous delivery of product roadmaps, within budget and schedule, by identifying risks and developing & recommending mitigation strategies.
Reviews tactical implications to products or business areas ensuring long-term goals and an enterprise view are represented in requirements.
Lead & manage a scrum team by setting the priority and communicating a clear vision
Creates and analyzes regular and ad hoc reporting to monitor business KPI’s and to measure the effectiveness of product enhancements.
Troubleshoots and researches issues related to changing trends, behaviors, or performance to identify what is impacting the business and determine how to address.
Builds strong working relationships with teams across the organization & key stakeholders to help facilitate awareness and support of business strategies and initiatives.
Supports and provides direction to the associate product managers in determining the impact of new functionality to existing business processes and system functionality.
Ensures the team writes stories (requirements) of sufficient quality in order to provide a solid foundation for realizing the benefits of the project.
Educates and evangelizes best practices throughout organization to build awareness for impact to business and ensure alignment for cross-team initiatives.
Maintains market awareness of industry trends and competitive landscape to help identify necessary updates and new opportunities.
Manages vendor partners to help solve customer and business problems and collaborate to drive for new innovations in products and services that best meet business needs and strategy.
Qualifications:
Strong strategic, creative thinking and decision making skills
Highly organized with the ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks to deliver expected results on time
Must have extremely strong interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain and develop internal and external relationships; collaborating across multiple business and technology functions, relationship building and consensus building are essential
Self-motivated and results oriented individual able to work independently and also work collaboratively with a team
Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization, and communicate with technical and non-technical audience
Education & Work History Requirements
4-5 years of eCommerce or digital experience
Experience in scrum/agile development methodology
Retail experience preferred
Familiarity with web analytics tools (preferably Adobe Analytics) and experience using data to make decisions
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT or other related fields