Senior Product Manager Retail

Project overview

Context

For a specialized retail chain, we are looking for a senior freelance Product Manager for a product at the heart of the commercial mechanics: price construction, promotional campaign management, or supply chain management. The product is used daily by business teams whose activity depends on its reliability, and its effects are directly reflected in profit margins.

Scope

The role is upstream: defining needs with the commercial, purchasing, and supply chain departments, building the business case, defining the vision and roadmap, arbitrating with the sponsor, and managing the delivered value.

Execution is handled by one or more Product Owners; you do not manage the backlog.

A significant portion of time will be spent understanding inherited business rules, deciding which ones are worth keeping, and defending these choices to business units that have their habits and good reasons for them.

Expected Experience

Seven years minimum, with at least four years as a Product Manager in the upstream sense - vision, business case, arbitration. Product Owner years do not count towards these four years, though they are welcome in addition.

At least one experience in retail, and at least one product managed in the areas of pricing, promotion, or supply chain.

What is expected

• Product experience in one of these three areas: price construction and management, promotional mechanics and execution, or supply chain and demand forecasting.
• having presented a product vision and business case to a sponsor, not executed a roadmap defined by others
• the ability to work with complex business rules and imperfect reference data, without waiting for the business unit to formalize them for you
• linking product decisions to commercial indicators tracked over time: profit margin, service level, promotional performance

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Paris, France, FR
• Rate: 75-75 EUR/h
• Languages: French