DIRECTEUR PRINCIPAL, GESTION DES PRODUITS, MARCHANDISAGE (CANADA)

The Home Depot Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 89,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Depot is seeking a Senior Manager, Merchandising Product Management to set vision, strategy, and delivery of merchandising products that elevate sales and customer experience across the division.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage multi-year roadmaps, mentor talent, and partner with developers, designers, and business partners to translate strategy into high-quality solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Minimum 5 years retail experience in a large corporate environment with cross-functional leadership.
• Proven track record launching products from inception to growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product management team in managing merchandising solutions required to deliver business value to drive sales.
• Set the overall product vision of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential.
• Drives growth for the business by applying domain expertise to provide thought leadership.
• Collaborates across the division to create alignment between products for a seamless user experience.
• Develop and maintain multiyear product roadmaps, prioritizing requests from business partners and stakeholders.
• Drives product development by directing work of product teams to align with priorities.
• Develop and mentor talent for efficient team development and pipeline.

Skills

Product management leadership

Agile Scrum

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analytics KPI focus

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

APIs

Databases

SAP

POS systems

E-commerce platforms

Job description

Vous aimez aider les autres à réussir et laisser votre marque? Vous éprouvez de la fierté à guider les clients vers les bonnes solutions pour leurs projets? Si, en plus de cela, vous êtes de nature curieuse et souhaitez acquérir de nouvelles connaissances, envisagez de commencer ou de faire progresser votre carrière chez Home Depot.

Position Overview

As the Senior Manager, Merchandising Product Management, you will drive vision, strategy, and execution, transforming ideas into user-centric products that set industry standards. In this role, the Senior Manager, Merchandising Product Management helps shape the long-term direction for merchandising products while overseeing the execution of the product roadmap. You’ll champion strategic alignment and tactical execution, focusing on delivering business value that drives sales, improves efficiency, and enhances customer experiences across the division. The position also entails attracting, developing, and retaining top talent, working closely with developers, designers, business partners, and other product teams to translate strategic objectives into tangible, high-quality solutions that elevate both the business and the customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the product management team in managing merchandising solutions required to deliver business value to drive sales.
• Set the overall product vision of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and uses that knowledge to help deliver merchandising products that provide Home Depot customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience.
• Drives growth for the business by applying domain expertise to provide thought leadership and translate vision into action
• Collaborates across the division to create alignment between products to provide a seamless user experience
• Understands financial and business impact of proposed product updates and activities within portfolio, prioritizes updates to support the merchandising roadmap, and based on prioritization allocates funding across the products
• Drives product development by reviewing performance and directing work efforts of product teams to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end-user priorities
• Develop and maintain multiyear product roadmaps, prioritizing incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders while keeping in mind the business strategy, product vision and user needs
• Understands division goals and KPIs to ensure value is delivered against them
• Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
• Oversees development of business requirements for IT related projects
• Leverage the US project and product teams when developing a common capability
• Develop and mentor talent for efficient team development and pipeline

Competencies

• Develops Talent
• Decision Quality
• Ensures Accountability
• Customer Focus
• Communicates Effectively

Skills

• Demonstrated product management success, including experience with new product launches and taking products from inception to growth.
• Exceptional interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build strong relationships and work effectively with cross-functional teams and external partners
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, especially in the context of new product launches or omni-channel projects.
• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies, including participation in stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Technologically literate, with a solid understanding of concepts such as APIs, databases, e-commerce platforms, SAP, and POS systems.
• Ability to collaborate successfully with developers and technical teams.
• Strong understanding of customer experience and UX, including journey mapping, user research, and design principles.
• Proficient in data analytics and data-driven decision-making, with the ability to interpret data and establish KPIs (e.g., sales, conversion rates).

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

• Reports to Director, Interconnected Merchandising Strategy
• Typically has 2-4 direct reports

Travel Requirements

Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time

Physical Requirements

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles

Working Conditions

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable

Minimum Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field

Minimum Years Of Work Experience

• Minimum 5 years retail experience within a large corporate environment, with cross functional leadership experience in E-commerce, Merchandising, Store Operations or other related areas

The pay range for this position is between $88,700.00 - $107,300.00