Product Manager Level 3

Job Role - Product Manager Level 3

Location – Ohio (Hybrid)

Duration – 1 Month C2H

Job Description:

This opening is for an experienced Product Manager who is passionate about enabling teams to maximize the value of their data. This role will report to the Group Product Manager for Data & Analytics Platforms. This person will partner closely with analysts, implementation specialists, and data engineers to deliver tools, training and documentation that enable business users to glean insights and make data-driven decisions. This person will serve as the primary liaison to create and communicate the Digital Analytics & Enterprise BI roadmap to customers, senior stakeholders, and partner teams.

Minimum Position Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in computer science, business, marketing, or management or related field

5 years software development, product management or project management experience

5 years of experience bringing customer-facing products to market.

Excellent oral/written communication skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Excellent communication, organizational and analytical skills

Experience with iterative product development (Agile)

Experience with analytics reporting tool (e.g., Power BI, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics)

Experience using data to influence product development and strategic business decisions.

Desired Previous Experience/Education:

Any product management experience with a multi-channel retailer

Any experience scaling enablement tools or capabilities to a large enterprise

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as Product Lead for Digital Analytics & Enterprise BI

Create and drive vision for analytics product at Kroger, including tools (Adobe Analytics & Power BI), training, and processes to empower users to maximize the value of their data.

Meet with customer teams to define use cases, and analytics product requirements.

Lead coordination with technical partner teams on shared objective and key results to deliver end-user value.

Prioritize roadmap, including new capabilities and enhancements that will save time, reduce cost and / or unlock new business value.

Serve as thought leader to showcase best practices for leveraging analytics tools to glean insights and drive decision-making.

Lead efforts that build trust in data and increase use of data across the enterprise; must have experience influencing a more data-driven culture at scale.

Serve as primary liaison with customers to proactively build trust in data and analytics capabilities.

Drive increase adoption of analytics in product-centric ways of working and advocating for prioritization of analytics in development and defect resolution.

Lead development and execution of product roadmap, including delivery on quarterly objectives and key results.

Manage product profit & loss and all timetables to ensure consistent on-time, on-budget results.

Manage all aspects of product through product lifecycle.

Manage support within the respective area as well as occasionally provide on call support.

Work directly and indirectly with dependent teams within Kroger and potentially vendors and third parties to ensure execution of deliverables.

Create, maintain, and communicate product catalog and technology roadmaps, including near-term delivery and 3-5-year product evolution, to engage stakeholders across the organization and commercial market.

Identify, measure, and improve key product catalog metrics to enhance the customer experience, and create a compelling, relevant product vision using web metrics, customer loyalty/insights, customer feedback/research and internal operational metrics.

Set criteria for minimum viable product to increase the speed/frequency with which enhancements and new capabilities are delivered.

Lead and motivate a technology project team, while maintaining and building positive relationships and partnerships.

Provide cost estimates for proposed projects independently or through collaboration with subject matter experts.

Travel when needed to support the product initiatives.