About the company

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on raising the bar with innovation and building belonging through our culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique purpose: to create joy around each table and inspire a healthier tomorrow for every community. 

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. We support our stores with 22 distribution centers and 19 manufacturing plants. 

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What you will be doing

This person will lead the product management for “Product (Omni Item and Vendors) Merchandising Sub Pillar” and report directly to the Director of Product Management. She/he will define the product vision and roadmap for “Product” sub pillar to achieve the business KPIs. She/he will be responsible for collecting and interpreting user research and data, conceiving innovative products, creating a robust product roadmap, and managing the product lifecycle. The right candidate will be a strategic and ambitious visionary with the proven ability to deliver products that create impact and deliver exceptional value to our associates, vendors partners who are deeply focused in serving our guest shopping omni channel. This leader should be highly motivated to succeed and influence his/her team and stakeholders to do so, in an approachable manner, that engenders trust and confidence at all levels across the organization. 

The Merchandising Product Management Department has an opening for a Principal Product Manager – Omni Item Onboarding. This position is located in Plano, TX (preferred location) or in Pleasanton, California (on exceptional basis only).  

The salary range is $135,800 - $190,100 annually. Starting salary will vary based on criteria such as location, experience, and qualifications

Main responsibilities

As a Principal Product Manager, you'll play a vital part in shaping the Vendor and Omni Item onboarding and maintenance experiences and production of rich quality master data which will span across merchandising, supply chain, marketing and finance. You are responsible for your product end to end to drive value to Albertson’s Enterprise and Customers shopping omni channels. You don’t stop at vision and building product, will take the product to the market (end users) for successful adaption, open to learn the feedback and improve. You'll will be required to challenge the status quo and push the boundaries across process and technology, to test, develop and implement disruptive new ideas and opportunities producing value. You are responsible for fostering healthy stakeholder relationships, while being comfortable to challenge to find viable and valuable solutions in short spurts while furthering longer strategic solution investments. You are the catalyst to drive cross functional alignments for your Product area, establishing the product vision, and execution of roadmap along with in merchandising, and other enterprise functions: digital, marketing, SCM and finance stakeholders. You are responsible for leading a team of Product Management talent; to create a cohesive strategy to drive the overall transformation and modernization of the Omni Item and Vendor domains. You own product backlog and prioritization, managing expectations, dependencies, and resolve blockers coming your way in pursuit of value realization through the product your team are building. You are in the trenches along with your direct and extended teams on day-to-day basis to identify challenges, root causes, then solution and hypothesize for continuous process and product improvements. You will be spending 25% in product strategy definition and alignment, 50% in product execution and 25% time in talent management and grooming.

What we are searching for

To be successful in this role, you must have a strong customer obsession, strategic mindset, critical thinking, bias for action, data savvy, visual storytelling, technical proficiency and comfort to alternate between modern cloud native tech stacks to legacy mainframes and SaaS. Must have Retail Merchandising and/or Supply Chain knowledge, being an SME in Omni Item Management/ Item Master / PIM domains, Vendor Management domain knowledge is an added advantage. Must have deep experience of building and launching complex custom merchandising and/or supply chain product platforms for a Fortune 100 companies.  You are driven by passion to solve challenges in way that it will create an competitive advantage to business in serving our omni channel customers. You are someone who can Think the big picture but not afraid to also roll up sleeves to solve what's right in front in short duration while keeping focus on longer term strategy and value. You should have demonstrable track record for innovation and produce value at cross sections of people, process and technology, with empathy for end users.  You would have embodied the Agile philosophy by its intent, always iterating and improving on the process with an purpose and not just for sake of adhering to the ceremony.  You are highly analytical with the ability to traverse between strategic business decisions and their quantitative implication.  You are a strong Oral and Visual communicator who can help dissect and visualize the complexities in simplistic fashion. You are comfortable to operate in the complete spectrum of product and program management, be the visionary as you set the course and be the navigator as you execute the vision. Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, engineering, business, or related. Masters Preferred with preference to MBA.  Minimum of 10+ years' experience in product management, management consulting or technology 

What is it like at Albertsons? 

Our 290,000 associates have a passion for great service and building lasting relationships with our customers. Through a companywide focus on innovation, we are continually enhancing our digital and product offerings, making it easy for customers to get what they need, wherever they are.

 

Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.   

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