Senior Director, Product Management - Supply Chain & Inventory
Full Time
Richfield, MN 55423
Posted
Job description
Best Buy is seeking a
Senior Director of Product Management who will play a key role in shaping the future of Best Buy's Supply Chain and Inventory Management capabilities. For any multi-channel retailer, success is defined by providing valuable end to end experiences to customers and employees across many different channels. This position will be building and leading empowered teams that are responsible for creating new and maintaining existing products in our Supply Chain and Inventory Management ecosystem. We are beginning a transformation that includes people, processes, and technology, which supports the significant growth and evolution of Best Buy. We are in the first year of a multi-year journey, where there is an opportunity to shape and influence the roadmaps, and you will be helping Best Buy do that.
Accountabilities for this position include incubating new products, working with enterprise leaders to align on the most valuable product outcomes, supporting the adoption of product management practices, fostering inclusive leadership, evolving team and organizational design, and pioneering of new ways of working. Any experience with enterprise transformation/product transformation/software delivery transformation would be helpful as your experience would complement what Best Buy has done several times in the last decade.
What you’ll do
Accountabilities for this position include incubating new products, working with enterprise leaders to align on the most valuable product outcomes, supporting the adoption of product management practices, fostering inclusive leadership, evolving team and organizational design, and pioneering of new ways of working. Any experience with enterprise transformation/product transformation/software delivery transformation would be helpful as your experience would complement what Best Buy has done several times in the last decade.
What you’ll do
- Work with enterprise partners, UX and technology leaders across the organization to understand customer needs & business opportunities
- Create practices to measure the success of outcomes and continuously improve the product
- Refine the practices used by the team, including vision definition, outcome-based planning, and ongoing stakeholder collaboration
- Effectively translate customer needs into strategies that will deliver meaningful customer and employee experiences
- Analyze product performance through qualitative and quantitative analysis tools and processes
- Understand all sides of potential trade-off decisions and make decisions to enable beneficial outcomes best
- Lead, coach, and inspire a team of product managers, while creating an inclusive team culture that enables all members of the product teams to thrive (e.g., UX, engineering)
- Identify needed skills and capabilities and work to fill those roles as needed, including, recruiting and hiring, training, and new tools and processes to enable the team
- Deeply understand the value of, and the ability to, enable collaboration between designers, researchers, engineers, product managers, business owners, and executives
- Provide mentoring and advisory perspectives across the broader team to ensure outcome-based, user-centered product work is embraced throughout the organization
- Understand funding mechanisms and manage multiple budgets to build teams that meet desired outcomes
Basic qualifications
- Bachelors or advanced degree in IT, computer science, engineering, business, design, human-computer interaction, or related field or equivalent work experience
- 8 years of experience within product team disciplines (e.g., product management, user experience, or engineering)
- 8 years of experience managing budgets and resource allocation
- 5 years of direct people management and demonstrated success in developing engaged, inclusive teams
- 5 years of relevant experience in strategy creation, customer focused solutioning, cross-functional leadership, or related areas
Preferred Qualifications
- 5 years of experience with large format retailers delivering supply chain and/or inventory management and experience solutions
- 5 years of experience with software applications as they relate to retail solutions
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Financial savings and retirement resources
- Support for your physical and mental well-being
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online, and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
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