Product Manager

Sapient (publicissapient); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Sapient is seeking a senior Product Manager specializing in Retail stock and inventory management. You will articulate product strategy, define user stories, and work with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven insights across web, mobile, and in-store platforms.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with agile processes, and the ability to influence without authority in a multi-cultural, distributed team environment.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will articulate a complex product strategy in terms of consumer and business value.
• Experience with agile methodologies, ceremonies and understanding of technology.
• Experience in defining user stories, backlog grooming, sprint planning and estimation.
• Experience in Retail stock/inventory management and data-driven decision making.

Skills

Product strategy

Agile methodologies

User stories backlog

Cross‑platform thinking

Vendor management

Influence without authority

Experimentation & MVP

Product management best practices

Technical acumen

Tech debt prioritization

Decision making

Retail stock management

Cross-cultural teams

Job description

Role & responsibilities

Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate will be someone who has an in-depth understanding of Retail stock/inventory management in addition to being data savvy and able to comfortably analyze and derive insights from large amounts of data.

You'll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Articulating a complex product strategy in terms of consumer and business value.
• Experience and understanding of agile methodologies, ceremonies and an appreciation and understanding of technology
• Experience in defining user stories, backlog grooming, sprint planning and estimation
• Thinking at a conceptual level across a number of platforms (web, mobile, tablets, store apps).

• Experience managing work completed from external agencies to ensure the highest standards are met.
• The ability to influence without authority.
• Having proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analyzing results to drive data-driven decisions.
• Product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical acumen.
• Technical competence to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested.
• Understanding the impact tech debt is causing, and the value tech upgrades can bring in, and can hold objective conversations with your technology counterparts to prioritize it during any sprint.
• Prioritizing and decision‑making skills, demonstrating experience of having made good decisions / judgements around business priorities and resource allocation.
• Prior Experience of working as a product manager in Retail especially in Stock/Inventory management.
• Familiarity working with multi-cultural, geographically distributed teams

Personal

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organize, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter.
• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership.
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization.
• The successful candidate will have a tenacious can‑do, will‑do mentality.
• Whilst being personally robust and willing to challenge the status quo, you will work closely with other team members and must be able to bring people on a journey with you.