Sr Product Manager

Roundel; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

Target is seeking a Sr. Product Manager in transportation to build capabilities that enhance speed, visibility, and accuracy across Target’s supply chain.

You will define and drive implementation of technology solutions to onboard carriers and support goods movement across all miles and modes. The role requires deep knowledge of supply chain, transportation operations, EDI patterns, load tracking, and interoperable systems across a broad ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Experience in an agile environment
• Excellent communication and influence across stakeholders
• Ability to translate business needs into product requirements
• Strategic thinking with ability to set OKRs and drive outcomes
• Expertise in product areas and domain knowledge

Responsibilities

• Define and implement product strategy and roadmap for transportation capabilities
• Collaborate with business and tech teams to enable carrier integration and data interoperability
• Lead cross-functional squads, prioritize backlogs, and drive delivery of high-value features
• Develop business cases and track OKRs to measure product impact
• Act as voice of the product to stakeholders across the enterprise

Skills

Agile environment

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Product strategy

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

About us

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers. Supply Chain and Logistics Target Global Supply Chain and Logistics 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 analyze 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.

Network Planning and Global Intelligence

A role in Network Planning and Global Intelligence means creating industry leading intelligence solutions to drive best in class omni‑channel guest experiences at the lowest cost to Target. You might focus on enabling the future transportation operating model, optimizing inventory management, driving topology planning or leveraging deep business insights and analytics to propel Target’s Supply Chain. As a network steward, we create forecasts, design inventory optimization strategies and leverage technology to ensure our inventory is available at the right time, in the right places and quantity to meet the needs of our guest, stores and operational goals. Super‑powered first and foremost by our people, and supported by robust process and technology, we are a team of data‑focused, curious minds who love to solve hard problems to enable a dynamic, fast paced Supply Chain Network.

About the Job

As a Sr. Product Manager in transportation, you’ll be responsible for creating capabilities to improve the speed, visibility, accuracy, and precision of Target’s supply chain. You will define and facilitate implementation of new technology solutions to onboard and integrate with transportation carriers supporting the movement of goods across all miles and all modes of transportation. The desired candidate would have a strong background in supply chain, transportation operations, carrier integration patterns such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), experience with load tracking systems, as well as familiarity with supply chain systems interoperability across a broad ecosystem (vendor, purchasing, WMS, TMS, EDI, freight payment, etc). Product Teams at Target Corporation 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 and design work. As a Sr. Product Manager, you will work in the product model and will lead the development of a comprehensive product strategy and set key business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product domain. You will need to leverage extensive knowledge of your product, as well as, customer feedback, key data and analytics, and other relevant data points to assess value, develop business cases, and prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product. You will be the “voice of the product” to all outside stakeholders advocating for your product and ensuring their needs are met and that the product team is getting the leadership and support that it needs to be successful. You will need to cultivate strong relationships across the enterprise in order to drive collaboration and alignment with key partners and stakeholders across pyramids. You will develop and actively maintain a product roadmap outlining prioritization for the customer themes, technical needs, and design challenges to be delivered and you will be accountable to make final decisions on scope and prioritization relative to the product backlog. You will be accountable to create and manage product objectives and key results, key metrics for your product, as well as related P&L impacts. You will oversee progress against product backlogs to ensure work and priorities are in line with the product strategy while prioritizing themes, epics, and stories, to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with the product strategy. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• 4-year college degree (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years of retail, transportation, product management, or equivalent domain experience
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
• Strong communication skills with proven ability to influence peers, key stakeholders and leaders
• Expert at working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
• Strategic mindset and bias for action with strong ability for strategic planning, defining ORKs and driving business outcomes
• Expert in product area

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with transportation carrier integrations
• Experience with Transportation/Distribution Operations
• Systems experience or technical background

Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers.

We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.

Our Benefits

• Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.
• Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.