Columbia Sportswear, Inc.:
Head of Product Management - Planning Technology Job in Burlington, VT
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Burlington, VT
Full-time | Management - Product
About the job
Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswears Digital Technology (CDT) group enables an IT infrastructure and applications across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.The Senior Manager Digital Product- Planning is a management role in the CSC Digital Technology group. Working in partnership with architects, business partners, engineering, and others, you will build the Product Vision, own the Product Roadmap, and lead a group of Product Owners delivering value for the Planning space. This role provides guidance in assessing product opportunities and risks, leverages data-driven approaches to test and optimize the product and suggests new solutions to increase the products business value.The Senior Manager Digital Product- Planning requires a proven Product Management leader who with functional Planning knowledge that can lead multiple Digital Product teams. Our ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in Digital Product Management supporting Planning Technology. They must have a customer-first mindset, a strong understanding of back-end and front-end programming languages, and the ability to develop data pipelines that can be used to track, analyze, and improve our digital product. This role requires a candidate with excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills as you'll be working with a team to interpret large amounts of data. This is a customer centric role, working to translate the needs of the customer into business opportunities.
HOWYOULLMAKE A DIFFERENCE
Define OKRs in partnership with cross-functional product teams, give visibility of progress tostakeholders
Creates and drives the product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities for a given productor portfolio ofproducts
Leverage market and competitive insights and current trends to define functional solutions
Organizes workshops with product users to discover and validate hypotheses and develops optimal solutions for the product Ensures solutions align with product strategies and are prioritized.
Uses a data-driven approach to consistently redefine priorities torespond to stakeholder and consumer needs and communicate those insights and priorities to stakeholders
Manages prioritization and trade-offs between customer experience, performance, operational support, and regulations
Leads larger scale initiatives, ensuring deliverables are on time, on budget, and business needs are met
Identifies documentation needs, articulates, and guides the creation of business process flows, use cases diagrams, user journey mapping, and training documentation
Acts as a change agent to drive innovation and digital transformation
YOU ARE
A servant leader with a growth mindset
Data-driven decision maker
Passionate about building great products and solving customer and business problems
A collaborator with influencing skills
Highly productive in a multi-tasking environment
Great communicator through verbal and written mediums
YOUHAVE
8+ years of experience in digital product management or similar role
Strong functional knowledge of Supply Chain and Planning technology solutions
Experience with Planning technologies Blue Yonder, SAP and analytics experience a plus
Usability and customer-focused design experience a plus
Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.
This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.
At Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC), we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CSC believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
HOWYOULLMAKE A DIFFERENCE
Define OKRs in partnership with cross-functional product teams, give visibility of progress tostakeholders
Creates and drives the product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities for a given productor portfolio ofproducts
Leverage market and competitive insights and current trends to define functional solutions
Organizes workshops with product users to discover and validate hypotheses and develops optimal solutions for the product Ensures solutions align with product strategies and are prioritized.
Uses a data-driven approach to consistently redefine priorities torespond to stakeholder and consumer needs and communicate those insights and priorities to stakeholders
Manages prioritization and trade-offs between customer experience, performance, operational support, and regulations
Leads larger scale initiatives, ensuring deliverables are on time, on budget, and business needs are met
Identifies documentation needs, articulates, and guides the creation of business process flows, use cases diagrams, user journey mapping, and training documentation
Acts as a change agent to drive innovation and digital transformation
YOU ARE
A servant leader with a growth mindset
Data-driven decision maker
Passionate about building great products and solving customer and business problems
A collaborator with influencing skills
Highly productive in a multi-tasking environment
Great communicator through verbal and written mediums
YOUHAVE
8+ years of experience in digital product management or similar role
Strong functional knowledge of Supply Chain and Planning technology solutions
Experience with Planning technologies Blue Yonder, SAP and analytics experience a plus
Usability and customer-focused design experience a plus
Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.
This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.
At Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC), we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CSC believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.