Job Title: Product Manager- Retail/Merchandising
Location: San Francisco, CA – remote for now due to COVID
Duration: long term opportunity … 6-month contract to start, but expectation is longer than 6 months and it’s a potential to convert down the line
Interview: Phone and Video
Visa: USC, GC and H-4
This group owns three applications:
- PLM – Product Lifecycle management
- All data regarding Product design & development, product data, etc.
- MDM - master data management
- Item Data, Prices on website
- RMS – Retek retail management system
Item Master, Pricing in store, Promotions
Top Required Skills:
- Agile Product Management experience – full gamut of creating stories, working with developers, working through testing/UAT
- 8-10+ years of Product Management experience, WITH RETAIL EXPERIENCE
- Experience in Supply Chain, Merchandising, Purchase order, inventory, itemization
- Understanding of “whole item master data” (promotions, pricing, SKUs)
- Understanding of ITAM or SKU data management and pricing/promotions
- Understanding of MDM and/or RMS Oracle Pricing and Promotions
JOB DESCRIPTION
Experience in supply chain, Pricing and Promotions, MDM and/or RMS Oracle Pricing and Promotions experience is a plus
- Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization to provide product and user experience solutions to meet the business needs
- Ability to identify the business organization's strength and weakness and suggests areas of improvement.
- Responsible for developing and creating requirements, providing product/project leadership and expertise
- Expert-level knowledge of product management best practices, functional design and application delivery methodology
- Customer focused with high quality standards, must possess excellent presentation skills
- Possesses and often shares subject-matter expertise or in-depth technical knowledge, uses expertise to further development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways
- Provides tactical work direction to team members
- Demonstrates outstanding interpersonal, business communication and project management skills
- Works on complex issues of highest complexity and strategic value where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including a broad understanding of current business trends
- Follows processes and operational policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Acts as advisor to associates to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems
- Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements; may have budget responsibilities
- Strong decision making capabilities can help organization achieve results and can impact the short-term and multi-year goals of the company
- Frequently interacts with customers, and/or functional peer group IC'S/managers, normally involving matters between functional areas, other company divisions or units, or customers and the company
- Regularly interacts with business leadership at all levels
- Often leads a cooperative effort among members of a project team
- Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments
- Provides work direction to other associates in group