Product Manager

Role & responsibilities

Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate will be someone who has an in-depth understanding of Retail stock/inventory management in addition to being data savvy and able to comfortably analyze and derive insights from large amounts of data.

You'll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Articulating a complex product strategy in terms of consumer and business value.

• Experience and understanding of agile methodologies, ceremonies and an appreciation and understanding of technology

• Experience in defining user stories, backlog grooming, sprint planning and estimation

• Thinking at a conceptual level across a number of platforms (web, mobile, tablets, store apps).

• Experience managing work completed from external agencies to ensure the highest standards are met.

• The ability to influence without authority.

• Having proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analyzing results to drive data-driven decisions.

• Product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical acumen.

• Technical competence to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested.

• Understanding the impact tech debt is causing, and the value tech upgrades can bring in, and can hold objective conversations with your technology counterparts to prioritize it during any sprint.

• Prioritizing and decision-making skills, demonstrating experience of having made good decisions / judgements around business priorities and resource allocation.

• Prior Experience of working as a product manager in Retail especially in Stock/Inventory management.

• Familiarity working with multi-cultural, geographically distributed teams

Personal

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organize, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter.
• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership.
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization.
• The successful candidate will have a tenacious can-do, will-do mentality.
• Whilst being personally robust and willing to challenge the status quo, you will work closely with other team members and must be able to bring people on a journey with you.