Product Strategy & Analytics Manager — Hybrid & AI-Powered Insights

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. (United States); Rockford (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Wolverine World Wide, Inc. in the United States seeks a Manager of Product Strategy & Analytics to operationalize data-driven guidance for product development and finance. You will forecast multi-season volumes, revenue, and margins, and build scenario models feeding the strategic plan.

You will partner with PLMs, Planning, and PD Operations to align product strategy with financial targets. The role requires advanced analytics, strong modeling, and collaboration across product, tech development,

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product analytics, merchandise or franchise planning, or business analytics within a consumer goods brand or wholesale environment.
• Strong financial modeling skills across franchise forecasting, margin analysis, and should-cost modeling.
• Proficiency with PLM systems (Centric experience strongly preferred) and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex datasets into clear, executive-ready recommendations.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration skills, comfortable partnering with product, technical development, operations, and finance teams simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Long Range Franchise Forecasting Lead multi-season, franchise-level forecasting in partnership with PLMs and Planning, projecting volume, revenue, margin, and SKU productivity at the category, franchise, and silhouette level.
• Build and maintain scenario models that feed directly into the annual Strategic Plan cycle and long-range planning process.
• Connect the franchise outlook to line architecture decisions made by PLMs, keeping financial direction and product strategy aligned across pods.

Skills

Franchise forecasting

Financial modeling

Cross-functional

BI tools

PLM systems

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Centric PLM

Job description

Wolverine World Wide, Inc. in the United States seeks a Manager of Product Strategy & Analytics to operationalize data-driven guidance for product development and finance. You will forecast multi-season volumes, revenue, and margins, and build scenario models feeding the strategic plan.

You will partner with PLMs, Planning, and PD Operations to align product strategy with financial targets. The role requires advanced analytics, strong modeling, and collaboration across product, tech development,