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You possess a strong understanding of the Retail landscape through the lenses of Product Strategy and Management background, work backwards from the customer experience and have experience launching multiple customer-facing products. You thrive in a fast-paced environment unhindered by ambiguity; you combine developing and driving high-level strategic initiatives with diving deep, rolling up your sleeves and getting the job done. Maturity, strong business judgment, a customer-centric mindset, negotiation skills, ability to influence and analytical talent are critical to succeed in this position.
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Responsibilities
As a Senior Product Strategy Director you represent the Products, Customers and retail industry. Within Oracle you are the expert of the industry directing the development teams on long term and strategic roadmaps.
To the industry you are the expert in terms of how to best solve retail problems through technology and AI.
To our customers you represent positioning these solutions to their business to drive value to their business.
This role will focus on driving Merchandising, Planning and Supply Chain innovations through AI embedded within solutions.
Job Requirements :
Product Vision & Strategy : Define and implement the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Retail Products.
Customer-Centric Approach : Engage with stakeholders to gather insights, ensuring the products address market needs and improve customer experiences.
Product Development & Innovation : Drive new product development and enhancements to existing solutions, utilizing innovative approaches to meet market demands and improve competitive positioning.
Deep retail knowledge across Fashion, department stores, Grocery and Hardlines.
Cross-Functional Collaboration : Partner with engineering, marketing, sales, and other teams to manage product releases, integration, and successful deployment to clients.
Data-Driven Decisions : Leverage market research, analytics, and feedback to inform product direction and prioritize features based on customer impact and business goals.
Thought Leadership & Evangelism : Serve as a product ambassador, sharing the product vision and strategy through presentations, conferences, and social media.
Leading solution future by embedding AI and automation to drive value across the end to end retail process.
Quality & Continuous Improvement : Maintain a focus on delivering high-quality solutions and fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
Minimum Qualifications :
Bachelor's Degree.
10 years of experience as hands-on product manager for customer-facing products.
Experience launching and operating customer-facing cloud services.
Experience training sales / field engineers on service / platform features.
Experience in delivering AI-focused features embedded in solutions.
Preferred Qualifications :
15 years of product management, product design or related experience.
BS degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience (MS Preferred).
Thorough understanding of retail across all verticals.
Experience at a Retailer in Merchandising, Planning, Supply Chain and / or Analytics.
Accountabilities :
Provide leadership and expertise in the development of new and innovative products, services and processes.
Research and understand the market makeup, needs and competitive landscape.
Justify investment of resources in business case to translate market requirements into financial projections.
Evangelize the portfolio and enable both internal and external teams on how best to approach the solution set.
Launch new products, features, capabilities and solutions into the market.
Own portfolio definition related to cloud and Supply Chain strategy from vision, roadmap to detailed product requirements.
Customer relationship leadership to build and nurture long-term customer trust, loyalty and satisfaction.
Lead and influence product team to invest and iterate on the right product features, with a focus on next-generation planning concepts.
Evaluate and deliver pricing strategies & pricing models for SaaS cloud services and fully understand underlying cost models in order to create business cases and margin calculations for prospective solutions.
Evaluate and prioritize any software enhancements or service offering modifications that help drive lower costs and thus higher margins.
Run effective beta programs and collect continuous customer feedback.
Collaborate with product marketing on release, market positioning, and GTM training, as well as strategies and tactics to drive product adoption post-launch.
Partner with sales and marketing to deliver high-quality content, positioning and demand generation programs.
Work closely with sales and marketing organizations to launch to maximize adoption of new solution services / features.
Present solution strategy to internal audiences, customers, conference attendees, partners, media and analysts.
Establish, track and report on metrics to measure the success of each service offering and release.
Work collaboratively with other solution leads to deliver a connected retail solution to the market.
Qualifications :
10 years of experience as a Merchant, Supply Chain leader or in Product Management.
Must have Allocation, Forecasting or Replenishment experience within a retailer.
Large organization / mature retail process experience is a requirement.
Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical products and features into value-based, intuitive concepts and graphics.
Ability to work in a non-routine and very complex environment, involving the application of advanced technical / business skills in area of retail supply chain.
Comfortable leading a team of domain experts and working in a highly matrixed organization (leading through influence).
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