Principal Product Manager
Target•Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
fulltime
Product Management, Supply Chain, and Purchasing
10+ years
About us:
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is
important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.
Team overview:
Target Global Supply Chain and Logistics (GSCL) is evolving at an incredible pace. We are constantly reimagining how we get the right product to the guest even better, faster and more cost effectively than before. We are becoming more intelligent, automated and algorithmic in our decision-making, so that no matter how guests shop—in stores or on Target.com—we deliver the convenience and immediate gratification they demand and deserve. We are on a mission to win decisively over any competitor, with a seamless and superior guest service experience unlike any they can offer. Our teams work with the agility our mission requires, and we constantly come together to implement new processes in record time. So we’re looking for exceptional people who are proactive, creative, independent, innovative, risk-savvy and comfortable working in varying degrees of ambiguity. Are you a critical thinker who seeks the root cause and can analyse both qualitatively and quantitatively? Are you a creative problem-solver who simplifies problems, quickly identifies solutions, commits to a plan and then positively influences others to execute it? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.
Role overview:
The Principal Product Manager – Inventory Purchasing and Positioning (IPP) is responsible for developing and executing the strategy to optimize inventory flow across Target’s fulfillment and replenishment network. This role will work closely with three product directors in the IPP portfolio supporting both Purchasing and replenishment. This role will also act as the subject matter expert (SME) for the engineering teams and lead the development of the prioritized features along with the systematic scale and performance improvements required to support business growth. The overarching goal is to manage optimized purchasing and flow it with precision across the network add trade off logic to make best use of inventory, improve guest experience due to out of stocks, and provide feedback to replenishment systems for better in stocks.
Key functional areas of responsibility include:
The Principal Product Manager role will cut across multiple product teams to system capabilities to develop new future & multi echelon inventory system and enhance inventory availability for Target guests. This role will develop strategy of the required system capabilities, tactical plans and lead other product owners to execute strategy. This individual will need to collaborate with other Principals, Directors and Senior Directors across Target Technology Services, Digital, Global Supply Chain & Logistics, Store Operations, Target Finance and other key enterprise partners to gain alignment and make progress.
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