Responsibilities
Since H-E-B Digital Technology's inception, we've been investing heavily in our customers' digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, make food decisions, and ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital - we're using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience. As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll deliver products that ensure a compelling digital experience for our retail Customers or help arm H-E-B Partners company-wide with world-class business applications to thrive in their jobs. You’ll collaborate with business stakeholders to cultivate an intimate understanding of their needs and technology and drive the entire technology project lifecycle to make our digital tools work, whether they’re for Customers in our Stores or in workplaces across the Company. About the Team
The Assortment Tailoring & Merchandising (AToM) team is focused on building modern, intelligent tools that help merchants make data-driven decisions about which products to carry. These tools will leverage data analytics, customer insights, and business constraints to optimize our assortment strategy. Whether it's surfacing the right product recommendations or improving how merchants collaborate with suppliers, our team ensures that customers can always find and discover the best products.
Once you're eligible, you'll become an Owner in the company, so we're looking for commitment, hard work, and a focus on quality and customer experience. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources—People—drive the innovation, growth, and success that make us The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company.
Do you have a:
HEART FOR PEOPLE… skills to cultivate an intimate understanding of customer needs?
HEAD FOR BUSINESS… ability to apply rigorous logic / methods to solve difficult problems?
PASSION FOR RESULTS… drive to negotiate solutions without damaging relationships?
We are looking for:
- Experienced product manager who is curious, empathetic, and data-driven, with strong business acumen related to enterprise organizations, and can apply those skills to the delivery of technology solutions for Partners, Suppliers and Customers
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience working closely with Partners, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to deeply understand user needs. You proactively gather feedback, synthesize insights, and leverage data to prioritize and drive impactful product decisions.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and bring structure to complex problems by breaking down undefined challenges, identifying key opportunities, and prioritizing work based on business impact, user needs, and data-driven insights.
What is the work?
Digital Product Management:
- Manages activities that drive product development and delivery at the team / department level, and across departments; serves as dedicated owner of a set of related products, typically strategically- or thematically related while working independently with limited oversight.
- Serves as subject matter expert on owned product area(s), related product area(s), and department.
- Guides project vision; coordinates cross-functional teams of Partners / suppliers.
- Explores / validates and executes with little pre-defined solutions; makes independent decisions based on analysis, experience, judgment.
- May mentor an individual or small team of product managers or business analysts in the related domain, based on the needs of the business and/or Product.
- Collaborates with stakeholders’ company-wide to understand / document business needs in an end-to-end manner.
- Builds and owns product roadmaps.
- Accesses / organizes data; builds analyses to understand financial impact of business opportunity and proposed solutions.
- Works closely with business customers, Product Managers, Design, Data Science, and Engineering Partners to drive entire technology product lifecycle.
- Manages relationships with key stakeholders to drive and enhance the product vision and strategy.
- Drives teams to demonstrate high velocity, efficiency, and morale; ensures team consistently meets commitments.
- Flexes existing processes to maximize outcomes; identifies critical risks and dependencies; anticipates / resolves critical team issues with little escalation.
- Creates quantitative data analysis and modeling to inform outcomes; constructs methods / metrics to identify product team successes and failures.
- May manage/ supervise Product Managers
What is your background?
- A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
- 5+ years of experience in product management / development related experience (e.g., retail, finance, marketing, computer science, design)
Do you have what it takes to be an H-E-B Senior Product Manager?
- Comprehensive knowledge of voice of the customer techniques and product management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence)
- Advanced analytical skills
- Advanced communication and presentation skills
- Strong Agile / Scrum skills
- Strong negotiating and interpersonal skills
- Strong influencing, collaborating, and active listening skills.
- Strong decision-making skills
- Ability to leverage data to tell a meaningful story.
- Ability to break down complex problems into components and reassemble them to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Ability to condense complex technical concepts into non-technical language for business stakeholders.
- Ability to affect change, adaptability.
- Motivated to independently achieve results.
Can you…
- Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
- Work collaboratively across a complex enterprise and rapidly evolving business.
- Occasionally work extended hours
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11/2024
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