Manager II, Product Management

What you'll do...

Position: Manager II, Product Management

Job Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: Defines and manages strategy and business objectives for moderately complex products by identifying market opportunities, conducting benchmark studies and competitive assessments; developing business cases; and setting objectives and key performance indicators for products. Develops and enhances moderately complex products by developing and managing product roadmaps; gathering and documenting requirements; collecting and analyzing customer and product data; turning customer insights into actionable priorities and initiatives; prioritizing product backlog; executing on user and business acceptance criteria; and managing roll out of product features. Crafts and develops solutions to business challenges by communicating requirements to key partners (for example, Business leaders, User Experience, Engineering, Analytics); and engaging with key partners to deliver and support initiatives; and communicating status and insights related to product performance to stakeholders. Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training; mentoring; assigning duties; providing recognition; and ensuring diversity awareness.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Communications, or related field and 2 years of experience in product management, project management, management consulting, retail or eCommerce business functions, or related experience.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Data analysis on data from simple/complex information systems like ETL processes, databases, and dashboards utilizing large datasets on different platforms and technologies like Power BI/Tableau; Designing and implementing technology-based solutions like web applications, reports, dashboards, and visualization; Developing project plans, roadmaps, and schedules and tracking execution as per product development lifecycle; Managing multi-phased, complex projects, and tracking KPI’s including scope, schedules, budgets, and resources; Analyzing business specifications and existing process/data flows using tools (Visio, Lucid Charts, and Draw.io) and advising on designing future flows for complex information systems; Designing user experience and testing technology-based solutions like web applications, reports, dashboards, and visualization; Go-to-market strategies and tracking user adoption; Advanced capabilities with industry-standard information radiators and project management tools (JIRA, MS Project, MS TFS, and DevOps); Business process engineering utilizing lean principles to improve efficiency and advising when creating technological solutions; Data Science, Machine Intelligence, AI and Automation Concepts; and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), collaboration tools, mainstream project management, budget management, schedule management, resource and capacity planning, change management, security compliance as per enterprise and industry standard processes. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.