Senior Product Manager – Product and Partner Development

About The Company

Senior Product Manager – Product and Partner Development

Retail Media Network

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons Companies family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit, and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.

Albertsons is transforming the grocery experience by harnessing the power of digital technologies. We seek to offer customers an easy, exciting, and friendly ecommerce shopping experience, through the invention of personalized and localized digital experiences for our 34 million plus weekly customers. That includes partnering with the hundreds of Brands that sell products via our Site, App and Stores. That partnership includes a Retail Media offering that enables the Brands to execute Marketing and Branding campaigns that promote the sales and education of their Products. That Marketing happens on Albertsons Site, App and Stores, but it also happens via popular Media/AdTech partners like Pinterest, Meta, Google, Streaming TV services, and more.

The Product Manager provides oversight and alignment across the business, partner, and engineering teams. This leader is critical to governance pertaining to their Products within the Retail Media Network portfolio. The successful candidate will have led standardization of Agile processes, tools, and portfolio management methodologies and has demonstrated success in leading Agile teams and initiatives. This leadership candidate will have proven strengths in product management, business analytics, partner development, project management and collaboration.

This role will drive a Product Roadmap focused on modern Retail Media Products outside of Albertsons’ own properties. Retail Media is evolving quickly and requires deep partnerships with many Partners to shine. These partners are motivated to build with Albertsons but require a thought leader/partner that can carry a vision from design through delivery.

What you will be doing

This role is a highly collaborative and visible position that requires cross-group coordination and the ability to manage high volume, high impact work. The perfect candidate is strategic and has a bias for action; thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; and partners successfully with a wide group of Partners to build modern, Retail Media Products. This leader knows how to roll up their sleeves to design, test, and deliver new Products and features, with Partners, and in service of our customers.

• Our customers include internal stakeholders and the Consumer Goods Brands that sell products at Albertsons. These customers invest Marketing budgets into our Products to achieve their goals.
• Our Partners include major Ad Tech players like Google, Meta, Pinterest and Liveramp and several mid-sized players like Clinch, Citrus, and Fireworks.

This individual will work at a strategic level to inspire Partners to prioritize our ideas/needs. Using data, customer feedback, and finance partnerships, you will build a Roadmap and Vision that delivers on the larger Team’s goals. This role reports to the Director or VP of Product and Innovation.

The salary range is $118,100 to $165,340 annually. Starting salary will vary based on criteria such as location, experience, and qualifications. There may be flexibility for exceptional candidates.

Benefits may include, medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, sick pay, PTO/Vacation pay/Flexible Time off, paid holidays (8-9 days annually) bereavement pay and retirement benefits (such as 401(k) eligibility). Associates in this position are also eligible for a quarterly bonus.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Ability to lead a vision and create a strategy for Off Platform Products – I.e. New Social Media Channels/features that Albertsons Media Collective sells to Consumer-Packaged Goods companies.
• Lead the ideation, research, design, development, test, and launch of data centric Products
• Set quarterly Product Roadmap and goals and track to them
• Support the Marketing, and Press Releases teams who will drive the official messaging used to promote our Products
• Provide transparent communication with Partners and stakeholders via weekly or monthly statuses
• Research changes in the industry and Partner product suite, with the purpose of finding opportunities for Albertsons to capitalize on the change
• Drive the strategy, delivery schedule, and Agile ceremonies for assigned Products
• Travel to relevant conferences, and Partner locations for training, white boarding, and strategy meetings
• Inspect and address risk implications for new Product features
• Monitor compliance with policies and track competitors’ solutions
• Enable executive leaders to assess potential Product value/risks
• Develop communication plan to drive decisions across the organization
• Interface with engineers and executives to define opportunities and challenges and keep them up to date with project risks and opportunities.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of building Products within the Retail Media or Marketing space
• Bachelor’s degree in Comp Sci, Engineering, or related field preferred
• Deep knowledge of Retail, AdTech and/or Marketing tools
• Experience with Agile development within a large Enterprise
• Demonstrate accountability and build trust and collaborate with Partners and stakeholders
• Ability to document and convert stakeholder problem statement into Product requirement document and work with stakeholders and PMO to prioritize
• Engineering leadership or strong experience working with engineering teams
• A technical appreciation of modern Ad Tech (DSPs, Ad Servers, Tagging, Measurement, etc.)
• Experience with data analysis, metrics, and goal setting
• Experience with Retail Media Networks or Agency/Brand Marketing a plus
• Excellent written, interpersonal communication and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on large scale Retail platforms
• Experience with managing Marketing Channels or Retailer Operations – Ad agency experience a plus
• Cross-functional program management/technical program management experience.
• An understanding of Ad Tech and data driven Marketing programs.
• Self-starter with strong financial and analytical skills.
• Experience with DSP, Audience, Digital Identity, Auctions, Programmatic and online advertising industry
• Demonstrate the ability to simplify complex business and technology topics
• Passion for strategic thinking and problem solving, and ability to deliver rich, business insights
• Ability to maintain good judgment in fast-paced environments
• Ability to excel in an ambiguous environment and effectively triage several competing priorities

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume by visiting https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/careers/en/home.html

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