Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Foot Locker is a sports and lifestyle retail company seeking an Associate Product Manager to support its supply chain product management team. The role focuses on gathering, documenting, analyzing, validating, and managing business, technical, and functional requirements while maintaining product backlogs and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Gather, document, write, analyze, and validate business, technical, and functional requirements for the supply chain organization
- Actively collaborate with team members across the organization to track down incomplete requirements, resolve blockers and ensure tasks are moving appropriately
- Manage requirements on all product / JIRA cards to ensure accuracy and completeness at all times
- Maintain the product backlog ensuring cards are properly groomed and prepared at least 1 sprint in advance for development
- Identify gaps in process, communication, and requirements to ensure we are developing the best product possible
- Lead requirements gathering sessions through the use of discovery workshops, interviews, and analysis in partnership with UX
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional team members including COE teams, technical leads and developers, CX, distribution, transportation, vendors and data teams
- Ability to take on additional tasks within the product management practice to help/assist the product managers in managing backlogs, current sprints, communication to stakeholders, competitive research, etc
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain operations or technology
- Minimum of 3 years' experience working in a Business Analyst or similar role
- Strong technical background, specifically with retail and supply chain technologies
- Demonstrated technical knowledge and proficiency; is effective in translating technical knowledge into business language as needed
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Bias for action and willingness to roll up one's sleeves to get the job done
- Collaborative spirit, and relationship-builder both internally and externally with a proven ability to work on cross-functional teams in a matrix organization
- Knowledge of agile methodology and scrum
- Experience using JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
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