27957 - Associate Technical Product Manager - Retail Operation POST NUMBER: 403755
Duration : 10 Months Contract to start, renewable
Work Environment: Hybrid, 2-3 days/w working in the Mississauga office (Thu the leads come in and locations are rotated)
Hours: 37.5 Hours
Description:
Our client is looking for a dynamic and innovative, Associate Product Manager. As leaders in the Technology organization, Associate Product Managers balance their passion as the voice of the customer with their pragmatic responsibility to make sound business and technology decisions. As the face of technology for their respective products, strong candidates will have a sound understanding of retail business, a solid record for delivering customer centric results, and a natural affinity to cultivating trusting relationships with partners.
Responsibilities:
- Develop/maintain the product roadmap and backlog for your portfolio, working collaboratively with local and international stakeholders to prioritize new capabilities based on clear business cases, and gaining alignment from a stakeholder steering groups and executives.
- Measure the success of completed initiatives to ensure business value is being realized and capabilities are being used to their fullest.
- Cultivate relationships with global product management peers in other Walmart markets to align on global standards as well as leverage and/or influence processes and systems across markets.
- Actively support the systems and capabilities in your portfolio by promoting defect fixes, frequently occurring support problems, and efficiency drains into your backlog to ensure ongoing optimization.
- Actively communicate with diverse groups of stakeholders through information sharing, listening sessions, training programs, clear documentation, and strategic vision presentations.
- Work collaboratively with partners; navigate complex decision making, and influence product strategy.
- Keep up-to-date on the industry and products in the omni-channel landscape; turn this research into actionable recommendations to accomplish business objectives.
- Act as a system SME, understand how stakeholders use these systems and providing vision and assistance to teams to get the most from the capabilities we enable.
- Maintain an agile backlog by defining requirements, building stories, and performing user acceptance testing.
Qualifications:
- 1-3 years of relevant experience in product management
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Retail Experience Technical Knowledge of app working
- Ability to conduct independent research with customers & stakeholders, as well as evaluation of competitors.
- Strong communication with regards to ongoing changes and business results with stakeholders.
- Previous experience managing vendor relationships, with up to $1MM of annual spend.
- Able to build stories & manage an agile backlog
- Ability to define requirements & perform user acceptance testing technology teams where product leadership already exists.
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
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