Product Manager - Retail, Merchandising

The Product Manager’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

· User centered ideation, discovery, definition and delivery

· Familiarity with building merchandising taxonomies and defining attribution.

· Understanding or product onboarding and maintenance in Merchandising

· Understands Merchandise Item hierarchy and item attributes

· Customer research to develop empathy, identify critical problems to solve, expectations, and behaviors

· Business stakeholder interviews to understand operational complexities, strategic objectives and plans, impacts and considerations

· Analysis of quant & qual data (internal and external) to aid in prioritization

· Analysis of industry trends and emerging opportunities

· Technology partnership to evaluate technical constraints, complexities, & capabilities

· Financial modeling for ROI analysis

· Strategic roadmap development – near term vision that will drive iterative value

· Storytelling & socialization of product – with business & technology stakeholders

· Use cases, journey mapping, hypothesis development

· Identification of KPIs, engagement & operational metrics for each slice of scope

· Retail and merchandising experience mandatory

Stakeholder management

· Navigate complexities of stakeholder landscape - leverage expertise to drive alignment and engagement

· Interviews partners, facilitate working groups, one to one discussion, group showcase forums etc. - with a goal of uncovering operational and organizational impacts

· Consider business process impacts & dependencies. Work with the appropriate partners to ready the business for the product.

Agile product delivery

· Partners with Iteration Manager, Tech Lead, QA, and engineers to continuously improve and maximize output of delivery team

· Effectively builds & prioritizes user stories for each iterative delivery – partnering with UX, tech, QA, business SMEs to deliver each

· Maintains outcome focus by adjusting product roadmap, release strategy, & scope priorities based on realities of an agile environment

Product Hind sighting

· Partners with analytics team to develop & implement test strategy to validate key hypotheses

Measures impact of product post-launch leading to sound recommendations for continued investment or pivot.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $130,000 - $155,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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