Albertsons
Sr Product Manager, Omni Channel
Albertsons, Pleasanton, California, United States, 94566
Job Description
About the company
Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on raising the bar with innovation and building belonging through our culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique purpose : to create joy around each table and inspire a healthier tomorrow for every community.
Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. We support our stores with 22 distribution centers and 19 manufacturing plants.
Bring your flavor
Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.
#bringyourflavor
#LI-LZ1
What you will be doing
This person will lead the product management for "Product (Omni Item and Vendors) Merchandising Sub Pillar" and report directly to the Director of Product Management. She/he will define the product vision and roadmap for "Product" sub pillar to achieve the business KPIs. She/he will be responsible for collecting and interpreting user research and data, conceiving innovative products, creating a robust product roadmap, and managing the product lifecycle. The right candidate will be a strategic and ambitious visionary with the proven ability to deliver products that create impact and deliver exceptional value to our associates, vendors partners who are deeply focused in serving our guest shopping omni channel. This leader should be highly motivated to succeed and influence his/her team and stakeholders to do so, in an approachable manner, that engenders trust and confidence at all levels across the organization.
The Merchandising Product Management Department has an opening for a Senior Product Manager - Omni Item Prospecting. This position is located in Dallas, TX (preferred location) or in Pleasanton, California (on exceptional basis only).
The salary range is $118,100 to $ -$165,380 annually. Starting salary will vary based on criteria such as location, experience, and qualifications. There may be flexibility for exceptional candidates.
Main responsibilitiesYou are a product manager with experiences designing successful products and experiences preferably in merchandising domain areas (Omni Item Master Data, Vendor Master Data )You have experience of building data products handling large enterprise multi domain datasets, metadata management, and data models.Your adept at Publishing standards (JSON, APIs, Kafka, Data Modeling) and can independently work with engineering teams across the enterprise.You have experience in governance of master data/ meta data specifically for retail item and retail vendor.You have demonstrated skills in identifying solutions that solve a customer (merchant, CPGs, and customers) need using data to inform your directionYou have strong product sense (ability to define the "why" before the "what" and "how") and a keen understanding of what makes for an excellent user experienceYou prioritize early releases (MVP/MLP) establishing clear tradeoffs on customer experience, quality, technical debt & time to marketYou have experience with early-stage solutions and technologies, preferably in merchandising domain, with hands on skills to produce product management artifacts (Product Fit Hypotheses, Customer Discovery Insights, Product Roadmap, User Stories & OKRs)You have developed user stories that are ready for consumption by a technology team with clear acceptance criteria (scenario or rule based)You have proven track record of establishing rapport, credibility, and influence with cross functional teams (business, technology & operations) to achieve resultsYou have experience with processes (scrum, backlog grooming etc.), frameworks (agile, SAFe etc.), and tools (Confluence, JIRA, MS planner etc.) that increase velocity, improve quality, and ensure transparencyYou are an autonomous self-starter, taking full ownership of your work and ensuring that it meets the expectations of the team, product requirements, and engineering architectureYou are an excellent storyteller and communicatorYou are both an individual contributor and a team lead (ability to mentor junior product managers & creative design managers)What we are searching for
To be successful in this role, you must have a strong customer obsession, strategic mindset, critical thinking, bias for action, data savvy, visual storytelling, technical proficiency and comfort to alternate between modern cloud native tech stacks to legacy mainframes and SaaS.Must have Retail Merchandising and/or Supply Chain knowledge, being an SME in Omni Item Management/ Item Master / PIM domains, Vendor Management domain knowledge is an added advantage.Must have deep experience of building and launching complex custom merchandising and/or supply chain product platforms for a Fortune 100 companies.You are driven by passion to solve challenges in way that it will create an competitive advantage to business in serving our omni channel customers.You are someone who can Think the big picture but not afraid to also roll up sleeves to solve what's right in front in short duration while keeping focus on longer term strategy and value.You should have demonstrable track record for innovation and produce value at cross sections of people, process and technology, with empathy for end users.You would have embodied the Agile philosophy by its intent, always iterating and improving on the process with an purpose and not just for sake of adhering to the ceremony.You are highly analytical with the ability to traverse between strategic business decisions and their quantitative implication.You are a strong Oral and Visual communicator who can help dissect and visualize the complexities in simplistic fashion.You are comfortable to operate in the complete spectrum of product and program management, be the visionary as you set the course and be the navigator as you execute the vision.Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, engineering, business, or related. Masters Preferred with preference to MBA.Minimum of 7+ years' experience in product management, management consulting or technology
What is it like at Albertsons?
Our 290,000 associates have a passion for great service and building lasting relationships with our customers. Through a companywide focus on innovation, we are continually enhancing our digital and product offerings, making it easy for customers to get what they need, wherever they are.
Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We endeavor to make this site accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at 1-888-255-2269(option #4).
About the company
Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on raising the bar with innovation and building belonging through our culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique purpose : to create joy around each table and inspire a healthier tomorrow for every community.
Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. We support our stores with 22 distribution centers and 19 manufacturing plants.
Bring your flavor
Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.
#bringyourflavor
#LI-LZ1
What you will be doing
This person will lead the product management for "Product (Omni Item and Vendors) Merchandising Sub Pillar" and report directly to the Director of Product Management. She/he will define the product vision and roadmap for "Product" sub pillar to achieve the business KPIs. She/he will be responsible for collecting and interpreting user research and data, conceiving innovative products, creating a robust product roadmap, and managing the product lifecycle. The right candidate will be a strategic and ambitious visionary with the proven ability to deliver products that create impact and deliver exceptional value to our associates, vendors partners who are deeply focused in serving our guest shopping omni channel. This leader should be highly motivated to succeed and influence his/her team and stakeholders to do so, in an approachable manner, that engenders trust and confidence at all levels across the organization.
The Merchandising Product Management Department has an opening for a Senior Product Manager - Omni Item Prospecting. This position is located in Dallas, TX (preferred location) or in Pleasanton, California (on exceptional basis only).
The salary range is $118,100 to $ -$165,380 annually. Starting salary will vary based on criteria such as location, experience, and qualifications. There may be flexibility for exceptional candidates.
Main responsibilitiesYou are a product manager with experiences designing successful products and experiences preferably in merchandising domain areas (Omni Item Master Data, Vendor Master Data )You have experience of building data products handling large enterprise multi domain datasets, metadata management, and data models.Your adept at Publishing standards (JSON, APIs, Kafka, Data Modeling) and can independently work with engineering teams across the enterprise.You have experience in governance of master data/ meta data specifically for retail item and retail vendor.You have demonstrated skills in identifying solutions that solve a customer (merchant, CPGs, and customers) need using data to inform your directionYou have strong product sense (ability to define the "why" before the "what" and "how") and a keen understanding of what makes for an excellent user experienceYou prioritize early releases (MVP/MLP) establishing clear tradeoffs on customer experience, quality, technical debt & time to marketYou have experience with early-stage solutions and technologies, preferably in merchandising domain, with hands on skills to produce product management artifacts (Product Fit Hypotheses, Customer Discovery Insights, Product Roadmap, User Stories & OKRs)You have developed user stories that are ready for consumption by a technology team with clear acceptance criteria (scenario or rule based)You have proven track record of establishing rapport, credibility, and influence with cross functional teams (business, technology & operations) to achieve resultsYou have experience with processes (scrum, backlog grooming etc.), frameworks (agile, SAFe etc.), and tools (Confluence, JIRA, MS planner etc.) that increase velocity, improve quality, and ensure transparencyYou are an autonomous self-starter, taking full ownership of your work and ensuring that it meets the expectations of the team, product requirements, and engineering architectureYou are an excellent storyteller and communicatorYou are both an individual contributor and a team lead (ability to mentor junior product managers & creative design managers)What we are searching for
To be successful in this role, you must have a strong customer obsession, strategic mindset, critical thinking, bias for action, data savvy, visual storytelling, technical proficiency and comfort to alternate between modern cloud native tech stacks to legacy mainframes and SaaS.Must have Retail Merchandising and/or Supply Chain knowledge, being an SME in Omni Item Management/ Item Master / PIM domains, Vendor Management domain knowledge is an added advantage.Must have deep experience of building and launching complex custom merchandising and/or supply chain product platforms for a Fortune 100 companies.You are driven by passion to solve challenges in way that it will create an competitive advantage to business in serving our omni channel customers.You are someone who can Think the big picture but not afraid to also roll up sleeves to solve what's right in front in short duration while keeping focus on longer term strategy and value.You should have demonstrable track record for innovation and produce value at cross sections of people, process and technology, with empathy for end users.You would have embodied the Agile philosophy by its intent, always iterating and improving on the process with an purpose and not just for sake of adhering to the ceremony.You are highly analytical with the ability to traverse between strategic business decisions and their quantitative implication.You are a strong Oral and Visual communicator who can help dissect and visualize the complexities in simplistic fashion.You are comfortable to operate in the complete spectrum of product and program management, be the visionary as you set the course and be the navigator as you execute the vision.Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, engineering, business, or related. Masters Preferred with preference to MBA.Minimum of 7+ years' experience in product management, management consulting or technology
What is it like at Albertsons?
Our 290,000 associates have a passion for great service and building lasting relationships with our customers. Through a companywide focus on innovation, we are continually enhancing our digital and product offerings, making it easy for customers to get what they need, wherever they are.
Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We endeavor to make this site accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at 1-888-255-2269(option #4).