Director of Product Management, New Customer Propositions and Store Mobility at Albertsons Distribution Center in Pleasanton, CA

Position Purpose

Albertsons Companies is investing in building a best-in-class fulfillment technology platform to provide the most convenient online grocery shopping experience by offering high quality fresh assortment at an unmatched value through the expansion of its Drive Up & Go(DUG) and Home Delivery offerings. To support this, we are in the process of building out a Product team centered around next generation eCommerce fulfillment that includes building the next generation of order management system, robotic order fulfillment systems for Micro fulfillment centers(MFCs) powered by AI and a seamless last mile delivery platform that offers an unmatched grocery delivery experience for our shoppers. We are looking for the best and the brightest Product Leaders who can help mould and define our product roadmap and strategy.

If you are looking to play a part in a major digital transformation that will revolutionize online grocery shopping,come join us!

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage a team of Product managers to champion the needs of customers, business teams, and stakeholders throughout the development process, ensuring that what is delivered meets the original goals and objectives of the project. Ability to operate in areas of uncertainty and ambiguity and provide solid recommendations.
• Mentor the product team and enable product managers to advance in their careers by offering guidance, training and being a role-model product manager for the group -- we believe in purpose driven leadership and the director of PM is expected to always rationalize the 'Why' before kickstaring product development!
• Identify unmet customer needs and develops possible feature/functionality concepts that meet those needs.
• Develop supporting business case, including financial impact and benefits statements, to support feature/functionality concepts and sell the concepts to internal audiences through persuasive oral and written presentations
• Mentor the product team and enable product managers to advance in their careers by offering guidance, training and being a role-model product manager for the group -- we believe in purpose driven leadership and the director of PM is expected to always rationalize the 'Why' before kickstaring product development!
• Gather input from a variety of internal and external sources to define product concepts; responds to the needs of customers throughout the development process; analyzes competitors and market trends; evaluates technologies; develops detailed requirements, feature definitions, implementation plans, and internal communications

• Participate in cross-functional teams during the entire lifecycle of product development, including deployment and post-deployment activities.
• Effectively influences and collaborates with others, presenting and securing approval from senior management and other key stakeholders, as necessary
• Responsible for communicating product solutions and benefits to customers and stakeholders; including knowledge transfer and training for on-going management of features
• Build intelligent capability and feature roadmaps using research, data, business context and learnings as input
• Be recognized as an expert across the division -- someone who has excellent judgment and whose projects have contributed significantly to the success of the organization
• Write user stories as a part of the product development lifecycle that:
• directly support primary objectives of the project
• are appropriate in size for iterative development
• include clear and specific acceptance criteria
• consider dependencies on other stories and/or projects & initiatives

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or Business required
• MBA or Masters in Operations Research/Computer Science required
• 10-15 Years experience in Product Management, Data Analytics or Management Consulting
• Atleast 5 years of experience in leading Product/Analytics teams
• Retail, Supply Chain and e-commerce experience strongly preferred
• Strong analytical, prioritization and negotiating skills
• Passionate about building great products and solving customer and business problems

About us

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons Culture Principles

• Compassion: We always treat each other with kindness and respect
• Team: We always support and recognize each other
• Inclusive: We always value everyone's perspective
• Learning: We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and others
• Competitive: We always act with integrity to win over the customer
• Ownership: We always take actions to drive our success

Physical Environment:

• Work may be performed in a temperature-controlled environment.
• Must sit, stand, or walk for extended periods of time.
• May spend long periods of time at desk or computer terminal.
• Will use keyboards, telephone, and other office equipment during the course of normal workday.
• Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in completion of job duties.
• Work day is fast paced; some evening and weekend work may be required.