Director/ Sr. Director of IT Product Management, Financial & Inventory Systems
Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Director/Sr. Director of Product Management is a leadership role defining how Five Below uses technology for inventory management and financial operations. Working with senior leaders in our Merchandise Planning and Finance organizations, they will actively participate in inventory optimization strategy and oversee a team that develops and maintains a roadmap of capabilities supporting those strategies. The role will guide multiple scrum teams in delivering business value frequently through an established agile development process. Product managers are accountable for real-time engagement with senior business leaders for both strategic and tactical initiatives while ensuring our applications uptime and performance meets the operating need.
Job Responsibilities:
- Listen carefully to and influence merchandise planning and finance leadership. Lead collaborative processes to create a long range plan/roadmap for the next generation of inventory management and financial systems technology: capabilities that support product and vendor data; purchasing and in-season merchandise management; perpetual inventory; inventory control, sales audit processes, general ledger accounting and invoicing/payments.
- Anticipates changes in inventory and financial management technologies based on market trends, ensuring that product capabilities can easily evolve.
- Manage day-to-day activities of a team of product managers who translate strategy into requirements. Acts as mentor and leader; drives customer-centric (empathic) culture through user-centric design, with a goal of delighting users driving high adoption rates.
- Actively advocates for agile methodologies with direct reports, peers, and business function owners. Provides coaching and training; ensures quality of agile stories including acceptance criteria.
- Manage vendors who have varying degrees of agile capabilities; act as translator and balance agile goals with realities of vendor operating models.
- Identifies approaches/metrics to measure the benefit of features, fostering a test-and-learn culture that leads to data driven decisions about the roadmap.
- Cultivates a culture of accountability, autonomy, recognition and learning. Reviews progress of product teams at the end of each sprint to ensure iterative delivery of business value, actively working with leaders from the engineering organization to course correct and/or unblock issues.
- Ensure that cross-functional processes are smooth; builds bridges with other technology product teams; Coaches team on how to identify and anticipate key relationship needs cross-functionally. Communicate critical business-impacting technology issues to leaders in a timely manner and ensure maintenance and critical issues are swiftly resolved.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years’ experience in product management or product ownership of inventory and finance technology, preferably for a national retail organization with omnichannel capabilities.
- Solid understanding of retail inventory management and finance business processes including planning, purchasing, allocation, pricing, inventory management, inventory control, sales audit and accounts payable.
- Understanding of technologies such as:
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and General Ledger applications such as Oracle (RMS, RESA, EBS, Fusion), Workday Financial Management, SAP, Aptos Planning, Epicor Eagle, or Infor in a retail environment
- Vendor Management Solutions (e.g., Bamboo Rose, Enable.com, Vistex, ICIX)
- Electronic Data Interchange (e.g., SPS Commerce)
- Experience implementing both packaged software and custom application development in an Agile/DevOps environment is preferred.
- Empathic leadership style that includes being hands-on when needed.
- Relevant undergraduate BA, BS degree in IT or Business or equivalent experience.
- Creative and flexible mindset to planning and problem-solving, ability to lean into the details while maintaining the “big picture”
- Strength in building partnerships; working collaboratively in a matrix, proven influencing skills
- Strong oral, written, and presentation skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas in simple ways to all levels of the organization
- Execution and results focused, with emphasis on on-time delivery, ability to structure complex work streams and work independently and with teams
The pay range for this position is $125,000 to $185,000 annually. Pay may vary based on a number of factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience; educational background; and geographic location. Dependent on the position offered, benefits, bonus and incentive payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
At Five Below our growth is a result of the people who embrace our purpose: We know life is way better when you are free to Let Go & Have Fun in an amazing experience, filled with unlimited possibilities, priced so low, you can always say yes to the newest, coolest stuff! Just ask any of our over 17,000 associates who work at Five Below and they’ll tell you there’s no other place like it. It all starts with our purpose and then, The Five Below Way, which is our values and behaviors that each and every associate believes in.
It’s all about culture at Five Below, making this a place that can inspire you as much as you inspire us with big ideas, super energy, passion, and the ability to make the workplace a WOWplace!
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!
Five Below is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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