Lead Product Manager

About Lowes: Lowe s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Bengaluru, Lowe s India develops innovative technology products and solutions and delivers business capabilities to provide the best omnichannel experience for Lowe s customers. Lowe s India employs over 4,200 associates across technology, analytics, merchandising, supply chain, marketing, finance and accounting, product management and shared services. Lowe s India actively supports the communities it serves through programs focused on skill-building, sustainability and safe homes. For more information, visit, www.lowes.co.in .

Job Summary
The Product Manager owns the vision and strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for individual products within a product group. Responsibilities include writing stories to define outcomes and product requirements as well as planning and managing product features through the product development process.

This role manages the product backlog while prioritizing work and making product-related decisions based on the needs and expectations of customers and stakeholders.

Although this role is responsible for end-to-end delivery of products, which includes managing the product backlog and prioritizing work for the team, more day-to-day focus is placed on identifying key gaps in product features, capturing product requirements, and defining outcomes or Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

The individual in this role identifies and manages projects independently while working closely with both internal and external partners.

About the Team

Labor & Automation team is part of the Supply Chain Warehouse Management which focuses on Productivity & performance of DC operations. This encompasses labor planning, scheduling and performance along with enablement of both manual and automated material handling equipments including robotic depalletizes, sorters, carousels etc. This team works in tandem with Warehouse Management across multiple DC Types.

Core Responsibilities:

• Responsible for success of a product or suite of products (incubate, invest, maintain, sunset).

• Frame the North Star qualitatively for each product under their domain.

• Defines the long-term plan of the product, and the O of the OKRs.

• Obtains buy-in from business partners.

• Finalize the KRs to the North Star along with product team, and works with business partners to obtain buy-in Work with product team to come up with value delivered periodically with high level milestones via a quarterly product roadmap.

• Own and lead journey-mapping conversations across domains to drive clarity in product separation while maintaining holistic workflows for the end users. May impact cross-domain journey mapping/user experience. Understand and action both macro and micro technology trends within given space to ensure Lowe s maintains leader position at brand level. Have brand impact external to Lowe s.

• Pioneer innovation to accelerate roadmaps and reusable components.

• Work autonomously on a large or complicated product

• Be recognized across the company as an expert in a product domain

• Experiment to ensure user adoption before making large investments in product build Lead a product group in cross-functional execution and delivery of a product or group of products

• Build cross-functional roadmaps focused on delivering user value across the enterprise Set the benchmark for delivering quality products

• Expert in driving prioritization cross-functionally and communicating how user value is being delivered according to the roadmap

• Drive a continuous improvement culture

• Sets the standard across the enterprise for building usable, viable, and feasible products Influence strategic direction of a significant product or suite of product(s).

• Influence engineering priorities of the product space Be accountable for aligning with partners to achieve the value of the product or business case

• Bring rounded internal/external inputs to guide measures of product success

• Be a model for building great stakeholder relationships and takes the lead in managing expectations for the product

• Demonstrate proficiency in product marketing and uses it to drive deep understanding of the product they own with peers and leaders

• Own and drive the product plans. Leverage data from multiple sources to negotiate alignment and timing for cross domain dependencies to achieve expected value which includes functional and technical considerations; the primary focus being the product.

• Tell the story so peers and scrum team can continually learn and improve. Identify and implement opportunities to improve team and culture.

• Act as a key influencer across the portfolio

• Define objectives and data required for analytics needed either independently or in conjunction with business partners for their product and how it relates to the product portfolio.

• Develop OKRs/metrics and creates corresponding data/analytics to track the health and business impact, this includes functional and technical OKRs/Metrics.

• Define key metrics of the product and practices routines to consistently monitor health of the product.

• Leverage the data to determine trends and opportunities within their product Partner with engineering to build tracking/monitoring needed to get to the data

• Interacts with competitive products and evaluates industry trends to set product plan and priorities to ensure product is at or above industry norm

• Works with stakeholders to develop product market fit strategies

Primary Skills (must have)

• Strong writing ability

• Experience in an agile software environment

• Experience working cross-functionally in a large organization

• Experience working closely with senior leadership

• Experience translating data into quantifiable actions/deliverables

• Experience working with warehouse management system and/or warehouse labor management

Secondary Skills

• Masters Degree in Business Administration or similar advanced degree

• CSPO Certification

• Experience collaborating closely with senior leadership

• Experience providing guidance and direction to cross-functional resources

• Experience with Blue Yonder WMS/WLM suite will be a plus

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
2 years of experience in two or more of the following: project management, product management, business analysis, program management or product marketing
1 year of experience in product and/or experience management
Strong writing ability
Experience in an agile software environment
Experience working cross-functionally in a large organization
Experience working closely with senior leadership
Experience translating data into quantifiable actions/deliverables

Preferred Qualifications
Masters Degree in Business Administration or similar advanced degree
CSPO Certification

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