Director, Product Management - Finance & Procurement

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers

About the position

In this role, you will partner with business leaders and engineers to build custom software that powers our iconic brands of Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta. You will help define the product roadmap by working with other product management counterparts and leaders to understand upcoming capabilities to positively impact the customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Understand the business process and capabilities
• Write robust requirements in form of business requirements document, translate BRD to stories, prioritize the backlog, and work closely with the engineering teams to deliver and test quality software
• Develop and manage project plans and key stakeholder engagement strategy on all initiatives
• Build relationships with key business partners and other brand stakeholders; articulates product needs clearly and succinctly to different audiences and cross functional partners
• Develop in depth knowledge of industry trends and standards to introduce the continual process, tool and methodology improvements
• Identify, measure, and interpret results to validate product strategy; Provide research, analysis, and support for identifying, evaluating, and resolving strategic opportunities
• Collaborate and lead others in key initiatives and their implementation
• Responsible for planning, budget and end results; set policies and strategic direction for area/team

Requirements

• Experience in supporting FP&A, Company and Commercial Planning, Finance Reporting, AP, AR, GL, FA, Procurement Intake, Spend Analytics, Contracts Lifecycle Management, Source to Procure
• Experience with Platforms like Oracle, and Anaplan
• Experience working with large software engineering teams both within and outside of your domain
• Demonstrate technical acumen; ability to influence and debate solutions with technical team members, to understand technology solutions and potential tradeoffs and to represent technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Evaluate sometimes complex situations using multiple sources of information (internal and external sources)
• Able to filter, prioritize, analyze, and validate potentially complex in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures within own subject area and understanding of procedures and concepts in other areas
• Ability to clearly communicate across all levels of organization
• Excel in relationship management and ability to serve key stakeholders
• Detailed oriented with process execution rigor

Benefits

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
• One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.
• Employees can take up to five "on the clock" hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.
• Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee's base pay.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.