Product Manager - TTOPS

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 Supply Chain and Logistics 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.

About the Job :

Product Teams at Target are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product, technology, discovery and design work.

The TTOPS (Target Transportation Operating Systems) product team sits within the GSCL Product Organization and enables the movement of goods from any origin to any destination, driving reliable, timely, and predictable delivery to the destination at the lowest possible cost to Target. This position will work with product teams across Supply Chain and Technology partners to ensure users can seamlessly optimize international flow and Trade Management. The north star for this role would be to ensure that operational partners across GSCL have an excellent user experience to create and visibility and Tariff Management for internal and external applications used by Target’s international transportation team and Trade team.

Role overview :

As a Product Manager, you will work in the product model and will partner to develop a comprehensive product strategy, related roadmap, and set key business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product. You will need to leverage the knowledge of your product, as well as, customer feedback and establish other relevant data points to assess value, develop business cases, and prioritise the direction and desired outcomes for your product. You will lead a product and work in unison with engineers, UX designers, data scientists and business partners to deliver a product.

You will be the “voice of the product” to key stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met and that the product team is getting the direction and support that it needs to be successful. You will develop and actively understand the market, maintain a product roadmap and backlog outlining the customer themes, epics, and stories while prioritising the backlog to focus on the highest impact work for your team and stakeholders.

You will encourage the open exchange of information and viewpoints as well as inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction. You will foster sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles and partner with product teams across the organization to help them achieve their goals while pursuing and completing yours.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you :

• 4 year college degree (or equivalent experience)
• 4+ years’ Product Management experience; international supply chain or equivalent domain experience preferred
• Strong communication skills, including ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
• Experience with technology for transportation core data setup like carriers, network & lane attributes by mode, equipment etc
• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
• Proven ability to lead a body of work with cross functional partners
• Demonstrated experience working in a product model using industry best practices
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and decision making skills leveraging data
• Strong business, technology and data acumen skills

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