Senior Product Manager - Financial Planning & Forecasting (Level 17)

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Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Financial Planning & Forecasting (Level 17)

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degree

Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid (three days in-office, Seattle)

Duration: 11 Months (Estimated Start Date: 03/24/2025; Estimated End Date: 01/31/2026)

Hours Per Week: 40.00, Hours Per Day: 8.00

PR Range: $50/hr - $56/hr on w2

Job Description:

Duties:

• The Senior Product Manager is a key member of the Product Management team, responsible for establishing and executing a strategic capability roadmap within the Financial Planning & Forecasting space. Financial Planning & Forecasting is a critical function that ensures Nordstrom creates accurate and data-driven financial plans and forecasts as part of an efficient, integrated enterprise financial planning process.
• The Senior Product Manager, Financial Planning and Forecasting will lead the design, development, and execution of financial planning and forecasting solutions. This role requires expertise in creating and managing enterprise financial tools, with specific experience in platforms such as Anaplan and Oracle Financials. The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for crafting a product roadmap that enhances forecasting accuracy and optimizes human capital while ensuring alignment with organizational goals. This position is critical to driving data-informed decision-making and delivering measurable business outcomes.
• The Senior Product Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams, including finance, operations, engineering, and data analytics, to deliver solutions that integrate seamlessly with enterprise systems. Core responsibilities include managing the full product lifecyclefrom identifying opportunities and gathering requirements to prioritizing features and launching impactful solutions. The role requires the ability to translate business needs into actionable product plans, manage competing priorities, and deliver scalable, user-centric tools. The candidate must also demonstrate strong communication skills to align with executive stakeholders, provide regular updates, and present product performance metrics.
• To be successful in this role, the candidate must have at least six (6) years of product management experience, with a strong focus on financial product management, financial modeling, and enterprise planning systems. The individual must exhibit both strategic thinking and hands-on execution abilities, with a proven track record of delivering results in dynamic, cross-functional environments. A Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or a related field is required, with an MBA or advanced degree preferred. This role is an opportunity to apply deep product management expertise to transform financial systems and drive meaningful organizational impact.

A day in the life:

• Ensures seamless collaboration with business and technology for responsive support for impactful product deliveries
• Crafts a multi-year product vision, articulating the value proposition and ensuring alignment with the company's strategic vision without support.
• Evangelizes vision across the organization and the company where appropriate
• Defines the approach to deliver to the broader product vision, in context with the domain, and developing a plan to effect success criteria and product value.
• Breaks down roadmaps into releasable features without support and owns the prioritization and sequencing of those features to best support strategic goals.
• Prioritizes feature backlog, accounting for complexity, impact, and cohesion with business unit strategy
• Orchestrates comprehensive product planning sessions within their domain and across dependencies.
• Leads customer research and independently synthesizes insights to develop a deep understanding of relevant product opportunities
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of market value and trends (including competitor products) and incorporates them into product roadmaps.
• Writes complete user stories and acceptance criteria within the domain and influences across domains.

Skills:

• Drives progress against deliverables across their broader domain, proactively managing risks and dependencies so that outcomes are achieved
• Determines testing strategy and other acceptance criteria requirements
• Engages cross-functionally to ensure incidents are appropriately triaged and addressed. Communicates impacts across the business without support.
• Prioritizes product roadmap to balance short-term deliverables with long-term progress, across multiple domains with support.
• Develop feature timeline and sequencing plan within a product line, considering technical and operational constraints and delivery of iterative value without support.

You've got this if:

The Basics:

• 6 years in the product management discipline
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Ability to inspire others, including demonstrated experience managing and leading strong teams
• Ability to partner effectively to define, measure, and analyze processes to identify improvement opportunities
• Technical background and understanding of software development principles, including Agile development, and testing methodologies
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proficient in data analysis and performance metrics
• Strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to explain complex technical material clearly to users with varying levels of proficiency
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presenting to various levels within a matrixed organization
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills

Preferred:

• Finance or Accounting background
• Practical experience with Anaplan and Oracle Financials

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