Senior Program Manager - Store Operations - Order Capture & Release

Nordstrom•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Nordstrom is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join its Store Operations strategic programs team, focused on revolutionizing modern retailing and transforming Store Fulfillment operations. This role is pivotal in shaping the strategic and operational roadmap for Order Capture & Release, leading the creation, delivery, validation, and scaling of new business capabilities related to how orders progress through order management systems and release to stores for fulfillment. The Senior Program Manager will report to the Manager of Sr Program Management and collaborate with Product & Technology, Store Operations, Digital, Supply Chain, and Transportation teams. The objective is to define solutions, align roadmaps, and deploy capabilities that significantly improve on-time performance, productivity, cost-per-order, accuracy, rejects, and cancels. This position involves owning enterprise-critical transformation program areas, translating operational realities into a multi-year roadmap to enhance customer order reliability, simplify store work, reduce defects, and increase productivity without escalating costs. Operating at the intersection of strategy, product, technology, and operations, the role encompasses owning outcomes from problem definition through scaled deployment and sustained adoption across over 400 stores. Initially, the focus will be on creating a three-year roadmap to transform store fulfillment operations through intuitive, system-guided technologies, aiming to reduce steps, decisions, and tools while improving team member experiences. Over the next 2-3 years, the focus will shift towards transformative automated and predictive capabilities to ensure consistent customer outcomes, reduce defects, improve resiliency during peak periods, and enhance the employee experience.

Requirements

5+ years of program management experience with demonstrated successful program delivery
5+ years related experience in omnichannel retail operations, store operations, supply chain, last-mile, or equivalent.
Ability to collaborate with Product, Technology, UX, and Business partners to solve impactful problems across multiple initiatives, with an understanding of AI-driven solutions.
Convert business realities into actionable requirements that engineering teams can build against, ensuring solutions deliver measurable store impact.
Proven track record owning and delivering a major program or workstream.
Experience re-designing workflows across multiple sites in a retail, supply chain, or consumer-facing environment to improve the employee experience while rooted in a strong understanding of retail operating models, omnichannel strategies, or store and supply chain operations.
Data-driven decision making and measurement rigor with ability to define success metrics tied to CX, store experience, and operational economics for their program area.
Use data to size opportunities, prioritize roadmap items, and validate impact pre and postlaunch.
Partner with analysts and data teams to ensure instrumentation exists to detect variance, risk to promise, and adoption gaps.
Proven ability to break down complex problems, identify root causes, and develop data-driven solutions aligned with business goals.
Able to deliver scalable solutions that offer near term value while engaging Product and Technology teams to design durable long-term solutions.
Knowledge of omnichannel, retail, and supply chain trends and strategies, while looking both inside and out of industry for opportunities to deliver new experiences.
The ability to lead complex initiatives where operations, systems, and people intersect, and where no single function owns the full solution.
Strong desire for continuous process improvement, experience with LEAN principles, and a passion for driving efficiency with demonstrated examples of leveraging AI.
Proficiency in project management, program planning, analytics, and reporting tools (Excel, Jira, Confluence, Aha!, Tableau, Looker, Power BI, etc.).

Nice To Haves

SQL experience

Responsibilities

Own one major transformation program area end to end.
Define and own outcome metrics and trade-offs (options and recommendations).
Translate enterprise strategy into a sequenced, multiyear roadmap for their program area, aligned to the broader Customer Orders transformation.
Balance near-term stabilization with long-term capability building, ensuring progress without destabilizing operations.
Be accountable for outcomes, not just deliverables (e.g., customer consistency, store ease of work, defect reduction, cost efficiency).
Own problem statement/framing, not solution design, providing prioritization context and why, along with requirements.
Convert operational pain points into clear, prioritized problem statements, success metrics, and parameters that PDM and tech can build against.
Influence sequencing and prioritization using data-led reasons by illustrating store impact, risks, and/or enterprise value.
Lead highly cross functional programs across Product, Technology, Store Operations, Supply Chain, Transportation, and Digital teams.
Earn credibility with both HQ partners and field leaders through clarity, follow through, and operational empathy.
Drive alignment through insight and narrative, not escalation or formal authority.
Navigate disagreement and ambiguity while keeping the program moving forward.
Lead the change journey, engaging and equipping frontline teams and leaders with the tools and training for successful adoption.
Build a culture of agility, experimentation, and continuous improvement.