Product Manager

About the role

This role combines advanced demand planning and program management to build accurate, data-driven forecasts and guide strategic decisions for retail channels. You will own end-to-end forecast management, including promotional scenarios, and lead cross-functional partners through structured planning cycles. The position requires a balance of analytical rigor and business acumen, acting both as a strategic advisor and a hands-on modeler at a detailed product and daily level.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage all forecast inputs, including sales curves, baselines, and promotional lifts, to build forward-looking forecasts based on historical trends and channel-specific adjustments.
• Create comprehensive promotional forecasts, including scenario models, to support channel owners in making strategic decisions on promotions and pricing.
• Oversee and conduct deep-dive analyses on product performance, including year-over-year comparisons, attainment tracking, and mix shift assessments.
• Provide day-to-day and week-to-week forecasting and sales reporting support to retail sales channel owners, ensuring they have timely and accurate insights.
• Develop and maintain net-short analyses and manage inventory allocation during end-of-sale planning to limit overhang risk and optimize sell-through.
• Manage and update all forecasting systems to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and alignment with business needs.
• Create and manage detailed workback schedules for each forecasting cycle, holding channel owners accountable for delivering inputs and meeting deadlines.
• Meet regularly with channel owners to review baselines, gather feedback, and incorporate changes, while documenting assumptions for bridging and assumption tracking.
• Lead recurring forecast inspection meetings with channel owners to review performance against forecast, identify variances, and align on corrective actions.
• Standardize assumptions and forecasting methodologies across marketplaces, influencing channel owners to adopt consistent processes for both emerging and established businesses.
• Own the forecast narrative and final documentation, clearly explaining changes between forecast cycles and articulating drivers of variances.
• Lead global retail demand reviews, synthesizing complex portfolio insights into clear recommendations for stakeholders.
• Act as both a strategic advisor and a hands-on modeler by helping channel leaders evaluate different promotional approaches and translating historical data into future forecasts at daily, product-level specificity.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of relevant experience working with complex product or portfolio environments, with a minimum of 5 years required.
• Proven experience in demand planning and forecasting, including responsibility for forecast inputs and accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to forecast promotional impacts, including calculating lifts and understanding price elasticities.
• Experience in B2C, finance, or traditional retail industries with the ability to connect forecasting work directly to business strategy.
• Strong Excel skills, including building and maintaining complex models and performing detailed data analysis.
• Experience balancing responsibilities across demand planning (approximately 60%) and program management (approximately 40%).
• Ability to design and interpret scenario models for different promotional strategies and translate these into actionable forecasts.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work at a granular level, including daily and product-level forecasting.
• Ability to clearly communicate forecast narratives, explain variances, and influence stakeholders to adopt standardized methodologies.
• Self-motivated and able to work under strict deadlines while managing multiple forecasting cycles and stakeholder expectations.

Skills

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage complex timelines and multiple stakeholders.
• Experience working effectively in a global, cross-collaborative team environment.
• Motivated, proactive, and comfortable operating in both advisory and hands-on analytical capacities.
• Familiarity with Anaplan or similar planning tools is a plus.
• A 4-year college degree is preferred but not required.
• Interest in or experience with cross-functional collaboration, including sales, finance, and strategy teams.
• Ability to translate data-driven insights into clear, business-oriented recommendations.

Work Environment

This is an onsite role based in either Seattle, WA or San Francisco, CA. The standard schedule is Monday through Friday, approximately 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. You will work in a highly cross-collaborative environment that values self-motivation, structured planning, and clear communication. The role involves regular interaction with global teams and retail channel owners, as well as frequent use of Excel and forecasting systems to support data-driven decision-making.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $69.00/hr.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Schedule

This is a Contract position based out of Seattle, WA. The standard schedule is Monday through Friday, approximately 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.