Senior Product Lead: Merch Ops & Inventory Strategy

Foot Locker; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Foot Locker seeks a Sr. Product Manager to lead technology capabilities across Merchandise Operations, driving pricing, promotions, localization, and inventory optimization with data-enabled strategies.

You will partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics to evolve forecasting capabilities, inventory health metrics, and decision support tools that empower merchants and planners to make smarter, faster decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Product Management experience in retail, merchandising, planning, allocation, supply chain, pricing, or analytics-driven environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the product strategy and roadmap for Merchandise Operations capabilities, including pricing, promotions, markdown optimization, allocation, inventory transfers, localization, and inventory optimization.
• Align roadmap priorities to business outcomes such as margin improvement, sell-through, inventory productivity, operational efficiency, and customer experience.
• Translate business problems into product opportunities, measurable outcomes, and prioritized delivery plans.
• Lead end-to-end product development processes from concept to launch ensuring on-time and high-quality delivery of advanced data products.
• Establish robust frameworks for data governance, accuracy, and standardization to support enterprise decision-making and operational efficiency.
• Support agile methodologies, focusing on delivery and value creation against aligned objectives and OKRs.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify business needs and translate them into measurable outcomes.
• Lead discovery with merchants, planners, allocators, supply chain, analytics, and technology partners to identify pain points, validate opportunities, and define solutions.
• Deeply understand internal and external customer behaviors through user research, data analysis, and direct interactions and translate insights into actionable product improvements.
• Translate requirements into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and product decisions.
• Apply structured prioritization frameworks to balance business value, user needs, technical feasibility, and long-term scalability.
• Own product delivery from discovery through launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Product management

Merchandising operations

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Data-driven

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Tools

APIs

System integrations

Data governance

Reporting

Job description

Foot Locker seeks a Sr. Product Manager to lead technology capabilities across Merchandise Operations, driving pricing, promotions, localization, and inventory optimization with data-enabled strategies.

You will partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics to evolve forecasting capabilities, inventory health metrics, and decision support tools that empower merchants and planners to make smarter, faster decisions.