Product Manager - Planning & Analysis - Forecasting

Responsibilities:

As a 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.

Once you're eligible, you'll become an Owner in the company, so we're looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and Customer service. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources---People---drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company.

Do you have a:
HEART FOR PEOPLE... skills to cultivate an intimate understanding of customer needs?
HEAD FOR BUSINESS... skills to apply data and your experience to create insights and build logical arguments?
PASSION FOR RESULTS... drive to negotiate solutions without damaging relationships?

We are looking for:
- Seasoned product manager who is curious, empathetic and data-driven, with business acumen related to enterprise organizations, and can apply those skills to the delivery of technology solutions for Partners, Suppliers and Customers

What is the work?
Planning and Analysis Product Management:
- Manages activities that drive product development and delivery at the team and department levels; serves as dedicated owner of a set of features, single product or a small set of related products while working independently with limited supervision
- Affects change within own product domain
- Applies understanding of product vision to assist in coordinating cross-functional teams of Partners or vendors
- Explores / validates / executes with little pre-defined solutions; makes independent decisions based on analysis, experience, and judgment
- Collaborates with stakeholders company-wide to understand / document business, stakeholder, and user needs in an end-to-end manner
- Crafts and maintains product roadmaps
- Accesses / organizes data; builds analyses to understand financial impact of business opportunity and proposed solutions
- Works closely with business stakeholders, Product Managers, Design & Engineering Partners to drive entire technology product lifecycle
- Manages relationships with key stakeholders to drive product vision
- Applies understanding of / executes against features prioritization as defined by Product leadership and business stakeholders
- Applies command of existing process; identifies critical risks and dependencies; identifies team issues; may escalate for resolution
- Leads teams to demonstrate high velocity, efficiency, and morale; ensures team consistently meets committed deadlines
- Manages reporting metrics to identify product team successes and failures
- Drives product backlog maintenance: authors detailed user stories and acceptance criteria
- Serves as a trusted mentor and guide

What is your background?
- A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
- 2 + years of experience in product management / development related experience (e.g., retail, finance, marketing, computer science, design)

- Experience in end-to-end product development and management
- Experience with modeling and forecasting for a retail organization

Do you have what it takes to be a Product Manager at H-E-B?

- Working knowledge of project management tools
- Working knowledge of end-to-end modeling and forecasting systems
- Working knowledge of product management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence)
- Knowledge of voice of the customer techniques
- Strong Agile / Scrum and analytical skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Negotiating and interpersonal skills
- Influencing and active listening skills
- Ability to leverage data to tell a meaningful story
- Ability to break down problems into components and reassemble them to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Ability to condense technical concepts into non-technical language for business stakeholders
- Ability to affect change; adaptability
- Self-directed

Can you...
- Work collaboratively across a complex enterprise and rapidly-evolving business
- Occasionally work extended hours

02-2024

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