PRODUCT MANAGER – MANUFACTURING PLANNING

Own and drive a product from vision, through design, to requirements, and finally delivery. Facilitate within a larger cross-functional team to solve business problems. Work with significant autonomy and freedom, requiring little oversight. This autonomy, however, will be within a broader strategy set by a Senior Product Manager and/or Group Product Manager. Demonstrate the company s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

– Identify product requirements and future enhancements through collaborative engagements to support product strategies
– Create, maintain and communicate product catalog roadmaps, including near-term delivery and 1-2 year product evolution, to engage stakeholders across the organization in aligning and supporting company and business unit strategies
– Create highly collaborative cross-functional partnerships across the Kroger matrix organization
– Identify, measure and improve key product catalog metrics to enhance the customer/user experience, and create a compelling, relevant product vision using web metrics, customer/user loyalty/insights, customer/user feedback/research and internal operational metrics
– Identify opportunities to create best-in-class capabilities by leveraging customer & user feedback and team knowledge/expertise in order to connect company strengths with available resources
– Develop a product plan and deliver breakthrough experiences to market by working with technical and non-technical partners; measure output, improve execution and continuously deliver production expectations
– Model Agile principles by maintaining a groomed backlog and providing 1-N prioritization for backlog
– Set criteria for Minimum Viable Product to increase the speed/frequency with which enhancements and new capabilities are delivered
– Travel to work locations to attend company meetings
– Travel to interview/observe the users and/or customers
– Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Desired Skills and Experience

Minimum
– Bachelor’s Degree computer science, business, marketing, management or equivalent practical experience
– 3+ years of software development, product management or business analyst experience in an technology business with demonstrated success in sales and/or customer use through the delivery of new/evolving products
– 3+ years of experience bringing customer-facing technology products to market
– Excellent oral/written communication skills and extreme attention-to-detail
– Ability to identify metrics/key performance measures and use data to drive decisions that enhance the customer & user experience
– Proficient Microsoft Office skills
– Demonstrated leadership experience in product management

Desired
– Any experience with iterative product development (Agile)
– Any product management experience with a multi-channel retailer
– Any experience using Atlassian products