Product Management Lead

Kimstore; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Kimstore is seeking a Product Management Lead to own end-to-end demand and inventory strategy, driving revenue, margin and working capital across SKU/brand portfolios. The role links commercial ambition with supply chain execution and requires leadership of a team to transform processes and ensure timely product availability.

The successful candidate will coordinate with Commercial, Marketing and Supply Chain teams to optimize pricing, promotions and inventory levels, while leading lifecycle

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-category SKU portfolio across platforms to drive revenue targets.
• Maintain inventory coverage thresholds for priority SKUs, balancing stock and working capital.
• Lead demand planning and inventory forecasting, aligning with business, category and supply chain teams.
• Build forecasting dashboards to show product health, shortages and supply risks for leadership.
• Provide real-time inventory insights to enable proactive decisions on supply constraints.
• Automate pricing/inventory processes to reduce manual work and scale improvements.
• Conduct price benchmarking and parity analysis for pricing decisions.
• Partner with Commercial/Marketing to align promotions with inventory.
• Develop strategies for aged or slow-moving inventory to improve turnover.
• Coordinate with teams to manage backlog, expedite orders, and improve timeliness.
• Serve as main contact among Top Management, Commercial and teams to align priorities.
• Standardize inventory and supply-risk reporting across the portfolio.
• Lead product lifecycle management including end-of-life transitions and launches.
• Partner with Commercial/Sales on demand-generation initiatives.
• Lead and develop the team, set priorities and coach performance.
• Drive company-wide process improvements including ERP project and playbook updates.

Job description

The Product Management Lead is a strategic, high-visibility role, crucial to the company's commercial success: lead a team, drive company-wide transformation and be the critical link between commercial ambition and supply chain reality. Own the end-to-end demand and inventory strategy that directly protects revenue, margin, and working capital across the SKU/brand portfolio - not just keeping stocks in check, but shaping how the business plans, prices, and moves product across every business unit. At the end of the day, it’s a strategy role.

Key Responsibilities and job-related duties required to support business needs include but are not limited to:

• Lead a multi-category SKU portfolio across platforms, prioritizing SKUs that materially contribute to revenue targets.
• Maintain target inventory coverage and availability thresholds for priority SKUs, balancing stock availability, working capital exposure, and obsolescence risk.
• Lead demand planning, inventory forecasting and revenue risk analysis, aligning demand and supply plans with Business, Category, and Supply Chain teams.
• Build and maintain forecasting dashboards that improve visibility into product health, shortages, and supply risks for leadership.
• Deliver real-time inventory insights and reporting to enable proactive decision-making and faster response to supply constraints.
• Drive automation of recurring pricing/inventory processes to reduce manual processing time, with a view to scaling improvements across business units and markets.
• Conduct price benchmarking and parity analysis to inform pricing decisions and improve promotional effectiveness.
• Partner with Commercial, Marketing and other internal teams to align promotions with inventory positions, improving sell-through and conversion.
• Drive strategies for aged or slow-moving inventory to improve turnover.
• Coordinate with internal teams to manage backlog, expedite orders, and improve timeliness.
• Act as the key point person among Top Management, Commercial, and other teams to ensure alignment on priorities and execution.
• Standardize inventory and supply-risk reporting across the portfolio.
• Lead product lifecycle management, including end-of-life transitions and new product launches.
• Partner with Commercial/Sales teams on demand-generation initiatives.
• Lead and develop a team, setting priorities, coaching performance, driving capability-building, and supporting succession planning.
• Drive company-wide process improvements related to the function, including collaborating on the ERP replacement project, developing a constantly updated playbook and identifying systemic gaps beyond the immediate portfolio.