Principal Product Manager, Merchandising Tech - Cost/Price
H-E-B
- San Antonio, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
HEART FOR PEOPLE... skills to cultivate an intimate understanding of customer needs?
HEAD FOR BUSINESS... ability to apply rigorous logic / methods to solve difficult problems and provide honest analysis?
PASSION FOR RESULTS... drive for positive change in your team, department, and beyond?We are looking for:
- 12+ years of experience in / related to product management or product development
- Strong business and digital acumen related to enterprise organizations
- Experience supporting retail in one or more of the following areas: Merchandise Planning, Cost Optimization, Price Optimization.
Digital Product Management:
- Defines / drives large-scale product strategy transformation and innovation at the company level; serves as dedicated owner of a broad set of related products, features, or initiatives, typically strategically related while working independently
- Works with executive leadership teams to drive strategy and influence direction and business decisions related to product management
- Works on complex multi-dimensional product areas
- Provides direction and leadership to product managers on product strategy and roadmaps to roll out and commercialize new product features and offerings
- Serves as trusted subject matter expert on owned product area(s), related product area(s), and department
- Defines and influences multi-year product strategy initiatives; coordinates cross-functional teams of Partners / suppliers
- Explores / validates / executes with no pre-defined solutions; makes independent decisions in ambiguous and complex areas, based on analysis, experience, and judgment
- Influences and collaborates with executive stakeholders company-wide to understand / document business needs in an end-to-end manner
- Accesses / organizes data; builds complex analyses to understand financial impact of business opportunity and proposed solutions
- Works closely day to day both influencing and leading business customers, Product Managers, Design, and Engineering Partners to drive entire technology project lifecycle (conception, user research, design and prototyping, development, pilot, launch, measurement, iteration)
- Influences and guides company leadership and product leadership to demonstrate high velocity, efficiency, and morale; ensures product deliverables consistently meets committed deadlines
- Flexes, re-defines, improves existing processes to maximize outcomes; identifies critical risks and dependencies; anticipates / resolves critical team issues with no escalation
- Creates complex and multi-layered quantitative data analysis and modeling to inform outcomes; constructs methods / metrics to identify product team successes and failures
- A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
- 12+ years of experience in / related to product management or product development
- Experience supporting retail in one or more of the following areas: Merchandise Planning, Cost Optimization, Price Optimization.
- Expert working knowledge of voice of the customer techniques and PM tools
- Expert working knowledge of business finance principles and application to align with business strategy
- Executive and organizational influence skills
- Expert analytical skills
- Executive level verbal / written communication and presentation skills
- Advanced Agile / Scrum skills
- Strong negotiating and interpersonal skills
- Strong decision-making skills
- Ability to leverage data to tell a meaningful story
- Ability to break down complex problems into components and reassemble them to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Ability to articulate and capture value through OKRs and KPIs
- Work collaboratively across a complex enterprise and rapidly evolving business
- Occasionally work extended hours