Sr Product Manager

About us:
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Team overview:

The Pricing & Promotions Center of Excellence (PPCoE), a key pillar in Merchandising is on a mission to ensure our guests feel confident they pay a great price and get great deals every time they shop at Target. The Clearance Product connects the business strategies of merchandising and Clearance Business teams with the power of technology, data science and ai to build products that drive clearance decision making, operational excellence and a seamless guest experience that are brought to life in partnership with stores, digital and social capabilities. 

Target seeks Product Managers that love to dive into complex problems and collaborate to find innovative solutions that delight our guests through extraordinary deals, drive top line growth, bottom line efficiency, while being relentlessly focused on ease for our global user community.

The Clearance team is responsible for operational readiness, in-season management of Clearance Prices.

Together with Data science, engineering and Insights team members, you will deliver innovative, automated, intelligent and connected solutions that enable operational readiness, business agility and a publish capability that integrates across the enterprise making it easy for our teams to meet and adapt to our guest and business needs every day and especially on the biggest days in retail.

Role overview:

As a Sr. Product Manager of Clearance Price Optimization, you will own the data science product. This includes product work with Machine Learning Models and Gen AI. You will work in the product op model and will partner to develop a comprehensive product strategy, related roadmap, and set key business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product.  You will need to leverage the knowledge of your product, as well as, customer feedback and establish other relevant data points to assess value, develop business cases, and prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product. You will lead a product and work in unison with data scientists, engineers and business partners to deliver a product.

You will be the “voice of the product” to key stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met and that the product team is getting the direction and support that it needs to be successful. You will develop and actively understand the market, maintain a product roadmap and backlog outlining the customer themes, epics, and stories while prioritizing the backlog to focus on the highest impact work for your team and stakeholders.

You will encourage the open exchange of information and viewpoints, as well as, inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction. You will foster sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles, and partner with product teams across the organization to help them achieve their goals while pursuing and completing yours. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• 4-year college degree (or equivalent experience)

• 6+ years of Product Management experience, preferably domani expertise in DS Optimization/ Clearance experience

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Proven ability to inspire, lead and influence global, cross-functional teams and partners

• Ability to set strategic vision, test, learn and iterate to provide focus and meaningful steps to consistently deliver incremental value

• Strong analytic skills and data driven decision making

• Ability to deeply understand, empathize and problem solve with a broad and diverse user base

• Ability to set goals, measure progress, courage to stop, pivot or accelerate

• Experience with tools and change leadership to drive efficiency

• Experience using data science and ai to solve problems

• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams

• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)

• Understanding of the competitive landscape and market trends, with the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and evolving requirements

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