Senior Product Management Manager

Kroger•Blue Ash, OH

About The Position

This role leads the horizontal services teams supporting the NextGen Point of Sale program, setting team strategy in alignment with the overall program direction. The role partners closely with business owners and cross‑functional teams to deliver desired business outcomes while providing ongoing coaching, guidance, and support to direct reports. Lead a small group of Product Managers and/or Associate Product Managers within a given domain. Drive the strategy for that domain, teaching, guiding, setting objectives and key results (OKRs), and ensuring that the OKRs are achieved. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Business, Management or equivalent practical experience
Any experience leading and managing a team with direct and indirect reports
5+ years of software development or product management experience with demonstrated success delivering new products and experiences to market
Exceptional communication, organization, and analytical skills
Ability to identify metrics and key performance measures and use data to drive decisions which enhance the customer experience
Demonstrated experience creating and using strategy to solve complex problems

Nice To Haves

3+ years of eCommerce experience at a retailer with brick and mortar stores
Any experience using Atlassian products
Any experience with iterative product development (Agile)
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Self motivated
Strong problem solving skills
Experience leading people in a corporate development environment
Experience in supporting retail sales solutions a plus

Responsibilities

Partner with stakeholders and consumer insights to develop product vision, identify capabilities aligned to company strategy and go-to market plans, communicate and create alignment with stakeholders including company officers and senior management
Create requirements and future enhancements roadmap to support plans to meet OKRs, deliver differentiated personalized experiences, and increase engagement
Create highly collaborative working environments partnering with Merchandising, Retail Operations, Key Retailing, Divisions, Marketing, Creative Services, Media Services, 84.51, and Kroger Technology & Digital
Model Agile principles to increase speed and frequency of delivery by maintaining and communicating groomed backlog, providing 1-N prioritization for backlog and set criteria for Minimum Viable Product
Provide leadership direction to direct and matrixed core team members, incorporating feedback from across all functions within product strategy and roadmap
Create, maintain and communicate product roadmaps including near-term delivery/releases and 1-2 year product evolution
Define product strategy, features and criteria for evaluating vendors/partners to make ongoing buy-build or partner decisions
Identify opportunities to create best-in-class capabilities leveraging customer & user feedback, team knowledge and expertise, and connecting to company strengths and resources
Develop the plan and deliver breakthrough experiences to market working with technical and non-technical partners
Measure, improve and continuously deliver to production
Travel to work locations to attend company meetings
Travel to interview/observe the users and/or customers
Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provides feedback to direct reports
Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation