Sr Director - Product Management, Supply Chain Technology

ABOUT THE POSITION

Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear’s Digital Technology (CDT) group enables an IT infrastructure and applications across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.

We are seeking a Senior Director – Digital Product, Supply Chain Technology to help us spearhead our digital product team as we develop, identify opportunities, build digital solutions, and grow our digital product organization. This role leads Digital Product capabilities for Product Creation & Supply Chain for the Columbia, prAna, Mountain Hardware, and SOREL brands. To do so, the role will lead our integrated team on a Digital Transformation journey, broadening consistent agile practices and growing a world class team, to accelerate the maturation of capabilities across the global footprint.  The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience with Direct to Consumer and Wholesale Supply Chain transformations in a growth company that leverages SAP for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) capabilities.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Drive product strategies and long term vision to build best in class digital products for Product Creation and Supply Chain, influencing the enterprise roadmap to enable company growth
• Facilitate enterprise agile processes for feature, capability, and strategic initiative identification, assessment, and prioritization including building business cases to identify value and costs
• Lead development of the company wide product portfolio plan in partnership with corporate strategy teams, portfolio teams, business owners, and agile product teams to drive the development of product roadmaps
• Craft product visions (short to long term) and convert them into a concrete product and technology strategy
• Participate in market research, validation, and whitespace analysis to identify opportunities for new and existing features and functionalities
• Evaluate, analyze, and understand the voice of the customer through a variety of data sources

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• Lead a team of product management professionals at various levels including both managers and staff
• Manage the product roadmap and backlog for all digital products
• Lead requirements discovery, solution design, user story writing, feature development, and user acceptance testing
• Partner with the executive, portfolio, and strategy teams to identify key capabilities needed as well as identifying potential issues
• Partner with cross functional teams regularly to ensure alignment on feature development and prioritization
• Engage with Technology partners to manage the roadmap and backlog to ensure delivery of all capabilities on time and per expectation
• Monitor and evaluate product performance to ensure constant product iteration and improvements
• Lead operating scaled agile model for planning and delivery of value thru features from agile teams
• Lead the improvement of product management practices across the technology organization
• Recruit, retain and develop world class talent

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Our ideal candidate will have 5-7 years experience in Digital Product Management. They must have a customer-first mindset, a strong understanding of back-end and front-end programming languages, and the ability to develop data pipelines that can be used to track, analyze, and improve our digital product. This role requires a candidate with excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills as you'll be working with a team to interpret large amounts of data. This is a customer centric role, working to translate the needs of the customer into online business opportunities.
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. Masters degree is preferred
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and negotiating skills
• Deep understanding of product management practices and agile operating models
• Experience with the following end to end Supply Chain processes and technologies is preferred
• Product Creation (FlexPDM, Centric)
• Planning (BlueYonder, Logility)
• Core ERP (SAP, InforNexus)
• Distribution and Logistics (Manhattan)
• Passionate about building great products and solving customer and business problems
• Excellent collaboration and influencing skills
• Ability to maintain productivity in a multi-tasking environment
• Professional high profile executive verbal and written communication
• Servant leader with a growth mindset

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster  The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf  Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

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