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Albertsons Companies · 2 days ago

Senior Product Manager – Merchandising

Pleasanton, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$145K/yr - $188K/yr

7+ years exp

Albertsons Companies is seeking a Senior Product Manager for their Merchandising Pricing & Promotions Product Team. In this role, you will lead initiatives to enhance customer value and drive company growth by collaborating with various stakeholders, developing product concepts, and ensuring successful product delivery.

Food and BeverageFood DeliveryMeat and PoultryRetail

Hiring Manager

Marcy Gutierrez

Responsibilities

Champion the needs of customers, merchants, vendors, business teams, and stakeholders throughout the development process, ensuring that what is delivered meets the original goals and objectives of the project. Ability to operate in areas of uncertainty and ambiguity and provide solid recommendations

Identify unmet user needs and develops possible feature/functionality concepts that meet those needs

Develop supporting business case, including financial impact and benefits statements, to support new functionality concepts and new features, and sell the concepts to internal audiences through persuasive oral and written presentations

Gather input from a variety of internal and external sources to define product concepts; responds to the needs of users throughout the development process; analyzes competitors and market trends; evaluates technologies; develops detailed requirements, feature definitions, implementation plans, and internal communications

Participate & lead as needed in cross-functional teams during the entire lifecycle of product development, including deployment and post-deployment activities

Effectively influences and collaborates with others, presenting and securing approval from senior management and other key stakeholders, as necessary

Responsible for communicating product solutions and benefits to customers and stakeholders; including knowledge transfer and training for on-going management of features

Build intelligent capability and feature roadmaps using research, data, business context and learnings as input

Be recognized as an expert - someone who has excellent judgment and whose projects have contributed significantly to the success of the organization

Outstanding UX collaborator who can work in partnership with UX to define and co-create customer experience that solve customer needs and bring desirable outcomes for business

Write user stories as a part of the product development lifecycle that:

Directly support primary objectives of the project

Are appropriate in size for iterative development

Include clear and specific acceptance criteria

Consider dependencies on other stories and/or projects & initiatives

Partner with merchants and CPG teams to evaluate allowances, costs, promotions, and display/space plans, ensuring strategies are grounded in real trade practices

Use Circana, Nielsen, Symphony, and retailer monetization platforms to curate market trends, develop hypotheses, and test strategies for price, promo, and display planning

Monitor performance against goals such as trade ROI, sales lift, basket mix, and profitability, sharing insights back to stakeholders

Responsible for communicating product solutions and benefits to customers and stakeholders; including knowledge transfer and training for on-going management of features

Flexible Career Path: Be prepared to adapt and expand into other areas of the retail domain over time, utilizing your core trade promotion expertise as a foundation for future growth within the company

Qualification

Product ManagementPricing & Trade Promotion StrategyData AnalysisCross-functional EngagementTechnical AcumenUser Centric ApproachAPIs UnderstandingAzure/AWSGitSQLExcelStrategic Thinking

Required

Bachelor's degree or foreign degree equivalent in Operations Research, Computer Science, Management Science, Business Administration

7+ Years experience in Product Management with proven track record in leading cross-functional teams and managing the software development process to build core supply chain systems and applications used by internal / external users

Strong technical acumen and understanding of (1) how APIs work, APIs facilitates communication between systems, and API structure. (2) platforms like Azure/AWS, used for building and scaling apps. (3) tools like Git for version control and collaboration on code within development teams. (4) backend data structure & observability. (5) agile software building methodologies

Fluent and proven track record in making data-driven decisions to invest in the right concepts, capabilities, features, and enhancements. (1) demonstrates the ability to create custom metrics based on the problems/impact we are trying to solve. This goes beyond the basic usage and adoption into metrics like conversion rates and product search efficiencies. (2) Ability to ask the right investigative questions and doesn't accept data at face value. Able to analyze trends, identify anomalies, and ask the right questions to uncover deeper insights. (3) Experience in defining, implementing, measuring, and managing user analytics tracking systems in tools like adobe, content square. (4) Experience analyzing data from various sources like user behavior on adobe, A/B tests, market research, and operational metrics to inform product roadmap decisions and feature prioritization. (5) ability to utilize basic SQL queries to gather data and utilize excel to analyze large data sets. (6) demonstrates capability to communicate and explain findings in a clear and concise way using visuals and key findings with both technical and business stakeholders

Experience and demonstrated success in using a User Centric Approach by leveraging surveys, interviews, research, internal data & insights, and market insights to identify customer needs and pain points

Preferred

MBA or master's in operations research/computer science/management science strongly preferred

Prior experience in Product Management or Business role in merchandising, trade promotions, category management, or CPG commercial strategy, with direct involvement in allowance, cost, and promotional planning, strongly preferred

Pricing & Trade Promotion Strategy

CPG & Retail Merchandising Expertise

Data Analysis & Hypothesis Development

Cross-functional Engagement (Merchants, CPGs, Technical Teams)

Demonstrates strategic thinking capabilities to align their team's product strategies with corporate vision to drive strategy planning, prioritization, and execution to deliver best-in-class customer experience and unlock business impact