Director, Product Management

 Job Overview:
The Director, Technical Product Management is responsible for building a best-in-class technical product management team that focuses on all the technical aspects of a product, ensuring they are being tracked, inspected, and managed
The Director will lead the team to drive visions that advance supply chain, inventory utilization and expense savings capabilities across Macy's Inc; working closely with business stakeholders to build business use cases, understand and assess opportunities, and collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to develop iterative product roadmaps and drive execution and delivery.
Essential Functions

• Create and manage data & analytics driven product visions that define the supply chain portfolio for Macy's Inc.

• Gather business and technical requirements, drive prioritization and alignment with stakeholders and engineering on roadmaps and resources planning

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to establish a strategy to execute against the product vision while supporting healthy technology platforms

• Build and lead a best-in-class technical product team responsible for discovery, definition, prioritization, and execution of roadmaps

• Balance the breadth and depth of the roadmaps and short-term vs
long-term strategy across supply chain applications and platform services

• Identify new business opportunities and develop solutions that optimize impact, cost, resourcing, timeline, likelihood of success, and risk mitigation

• Establish end-to-end functional and data maps with a focus on highlighting gaps, inconsistencies, and business impacts

• Manage teams to actively market iterative supply chain roadmaps & strategic targets through monthly roundtables and quarterly business reviews
 
 
Culture:

• Create and foster a data first culture that intentionally monitors and measurable impacts on Customer experience and bottom-line profits

• Be entrepreneurial, agile, and results oriented

• Drive innovation and change management to create an understanding of potential positioning of synergies and execution alignment for greater strategic gain

• Increase agility in identifying execution and delivery issues and taking action to remediate in advance

• Encourage user adoption of analytical tools and methods and embrace data in strategic business decisions

• Create awareness, knowledge and conviction around product-driven practices and behaviors, increasing beta opportunities and improving iterative speed to market behaviors
 
Leadership:
 

• Leader with a passion for product management who delivered enterprise solutions in a large, matrixed organization

• Lead the alignment of best-in-class strategies for the total enterprise including coordination with senior leadership

• Balance leading a team and engaging directly with the work needed to accomplish prioritized use cases with approved technical frameworks

• Coach direct reports as they build strategies and roadmaps

• Create and foster career development and growth paths for team members in alignment with company and personal objectives

• Assist direct reports with ongoing prioritization and resource allocation to ensure that the crucial business initiatives are delivered

• Provide guidance on recruitment and career pathing for product management resources

• Balance team resourcing and talent management

• Demonstrate Macy's leadership commitments of promoting diversity and inclusion, encouraging growth, creating connection, and driving performance
 
Key Performance Indicators:
 

• Integration, development, and deployment of supply chain products and services.

• Additional metrics dependent upon prioritized use cases supported (e.g., inventory placement, delivery expense, total cost of ownership, etc.)

• Annualized value to business vs
expense
Qualifications
Education/ Experience:
 

• Bachelor's Degree from a 4-year college, university or equivalent

• 5+ years of experience in product/technical product management

• Ability to effectively build vision, strategy, roadmap, and drive execution

• Ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical stakeholders at all levels

• Must be highly autonomous and comfortable working in an ambiguous, continuously changing environment

• Able to respond and adapt to the needs of a highly matrixed organization

• Experience working in an Agile environment including defining and documenting product capabilities, epics, user stories, technical patterns, frameworks, and user experience a plus

• Proven track record in delivering end-to-end products and services to drive business adoption and advance enterprise capabilities; application in retail supply chain is a plus

• Customer-centric and experienced with successful cross-functional collaboration