Senior Product Manager - Integrated Merchandising, Location Planning & New Stores (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)
Strategy & Roadmap
Own a multi-year capability roadmap for Location Planning across Merch Planning, Assortment Planning, and Allocation — ensuring LP is consistent and connected across all three modules.
Lead product strategy for New Stores: define the future-state technical solution, evaluate build-vs-buy options, build the business case, and own delivery from concept through adoption.
Identify opportunities to apply AI and automation to LP workflows — including cluster optimization, location-level forecasting, new store seeding, and performance ramp modeling.
Discovery & Definition
Lead continuous discovery with location planners, new store teams, merchants, and allocators to validate priorities and ensure the roadmap reflects real workflow problems.
Drive New Stores discovery: map the current manual process, identify pain points, and define requirements for a future-state technical solution.
Own the LP product backlog — writing epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria that are clear and buildable across all three modules.
Produce wireframes, process flows, and functional specifications sufficient for engineering and Toolio to design and build accurately.
Partner with data and analytics teams to define measurement frameworks for LP effectiveness, new store ramp performance, and allocation accuracy.
Delivery & Cross-Module Coordination
Serve as the integration point for LP across all three modules — ensuring location data, store clustering logic, and new store parameters are consistent across module boundaries.
Cook up release planning, UAT, and go-to-market readiness across impacted modules, ensuring LP changes are tested and adopted cohesively.
Partner with peer PdMs to sequence LP work with upstream and downstream dependencies.
Frame trade-off decisions with conviction — providing leaders with clear recommendations and driving alignment without requiring escalation.
Stakeholder & Vendor Partnership
Build trusted partnerships with location planners, new store teams, merchants, allocators, and store operations.
Manage day-to-day Toolio engagement on LP configuration, defects, and enhancements across all three modules — escalating clearly and advocating for Nordstrom’s priorities.
Lead vendor evaluation for New Stores if a net-new tool is the right path — including RFP coordination and build-vs-buy recommendation.
Represent LP and New Stores in program-level forums and executive status updates.
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