Associate Product Manager, Supply Chain

Responsibilities

• Gather, document, write, analyze, and validate business, technical, and functional requirements for the supply chain organization.
• Actively collaborate with team members across the organization to track down incomplete requirements, resolve blockers, and ensure tasks are moving appropriately.
• Manage requirements on all product / JIRA cards to ensure accuracy and completeness at all times.
• Maintain the product backlog ensuring cards are properly groomed and prepared at least 1 sprint in advance for development.
• Identify gaps in process, communication, and requirements to ensure we are developing the best product possible.
• Lead requirements gathering sessions through the use of discovery workshops, interviews, and analysis in partnership with UX.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional team members including COE teams, technical leads and developers, CX, distribution, transportation, vendors and data teams.
• Able to take on additional tasks within the product management practice to help/assist the product managers in managing backlogs, current sprints, communication to stakeholders, competitive research, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain operations or technology.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a Business Analyst or similar role.
• Strong technical background, specifically with retail and supply chain technologies.
• Demonstrated technical knowledge and proficiency; is effective in translating technical knowledge into business language as needed.
• Able to juggle multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Bias for action and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.
• Collaborative spirit, and relationship-builder both internally and externally with a proven ability to work on cross-functional teams in a matrix organization.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and scrum.
• Experience using JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.