Senior Product Manager - Retail Demand Forecasting

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Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Retail Demand Forecasting

Location: Blue Ash/ Cincinnati OH

Preferred Onsite candidates but we can consider Remote Excellent candidates

Top skills:

1. Demand Forecasting
2. Product experience
3. Collaborating with stakeholders
4. Retail or Ecommerce domain experience
5. Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting (RDF)and Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS)

Job Description

The Product Manager is responsible for product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and ensuring revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager also ensures that the product supports the company's overall strategy and goals.

This position will support the implementation of Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting (RDF) and Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS). The role requires experience in demand forecasting, product management, and stakeholder collaboration.

The Product Manager will work with business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and other partners to define requirements, manage priorities, and support product delivery.

Top 3 Skills:

1. Demand Forecasting: Experience with demand forecasting.
2. Product Management: Experience managing products, including product planning, requirements, roadmaps, prioritization, and delivery throughout the product lifecycle.
3. Stakeholder Collaboration: Experience working with business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and third parties to coordinate priorities and deliverables.

Additional Skills:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience presenting information to business leaders.
• Ability to translate business requirements into actionable technical requirements.
• Experience with Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and PI planning.
• Ability to manage dependencies, identify risks, and coordinate across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the technical aspects of the product throughout its lifecycle, supporting the implementation and ongoing development of Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting (RDF).
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and third parties to gather requirements, align priorities, and ensure successful execution of deliverables.
• Create, maintain, and communicate product roadmaps, including near-term delivery plans, to align stakeholders on product priorities and implementation objectives.
• Identify, measure, and improve key product metrics, leveraging business insights, stakeholder feedback, research, and operational data to guide product decisions.
• Gather, define, and analyze medium to complex business and technical requirements related to demand forecasting, ensuring requirements are testable, measurable, and traceable.
• Define minimum viable product (MVP) criteria to support the timely delivery of enhancements and new capabilities.
• Lead cross-functional teams in refining, prioritizing, and managing requirements through product backlogs, requirements management tools, and Agile task management applications.
• Facilitate requirements walkthroughs, stakeholder demonstrations, workshops, sprint planning, and backlog refinement sessions to ensure alignment across business and technical teams.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to estimate work efforts and establish priorities through requirements planning, program increment (PI) planning, and sprint planning.
• Identify and manage dependencies, issues, and risks associated with product development and implementation, working collaboratively to resolve challenges and understand impacts.
• Break down complex product visions and business needs into manageable initiatives, features, and deliverables.
• Communicate product priorities, progress, and key decisions to stakeholders and business leadership.