Job Description

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons Companies family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit, and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.

A $60Bn Company with 2,200+ stores, 23 distribution centers, and 20 food and beverage plants make us one of the largest retailers in the United States. With stores in 34 states serving 34 million customers, our foundation is our 20 well-known grocery banners with an eclectic and legendary history. Our private label on-trend 'Own Brands' portfolio is one of the most diverse in-house and trusted brands in the country consisting of more than 11,000 high quality products achieving $11Bn in sales. Across the nation, we are moving the needle through innovation. It's in our blood.

As part of this new visions the Product Management Department has an opening for a Mobile App Product Manager. This position is located in Pleasanton, California.

Position Purpose

Albertson's Companies is looking for people who are interested in re-imagining the grocery experience by harnessing the power of digital technologies. The Product Management team has broad responsibility to leverage digital technologies to build best in class customer experiences and maximize return on investment.

The Senior Product Manager will help drive a digital product vision and roadmap and will be responsible for building customer use cases, defining, executing ecommerce and omnichannel product features and capabilities across one or more of areas of search, browsing/inspiration, checkout, and apps.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Champion the needs of customers in building product roadmap and features. Ability to operate in areas of ambiguity and provide solid recommendations.
* Gather input from a variety of internal and external sources to define product visions and concepts; analyzes competitors and market trends; evaluates technologies; develops detailed requirements, feature definitions, implementation plans, and internal communications
* Participate in cross-functional teams during the entire lifecycle of product development. Proactively identifies problems that arise in the project, outlines options, recommends solutions, and escalates as needed
* Identify areas that require customer research. Partners with user experience team to user-test designs through mock-ups, functional prototypes, etc. to ensure they are meeting intended goals
* Develop supporting business case, including financial impact and benefits statements, to support feature/functionality concepts
* Champion new initiatives to leadership team
* Write user stories as a part of the product development lifecycle that:
* directly support primary objectives of the product and/or initiaitive
* are appropriate in size for iterative development
* include clear and specific acceptance criteria
* consider dependencies on other stories and/or projects & initiatives

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree required
* 3-6 years' product management experience, product strategy, or consulting experience
* Experience managing agile teams
* Strong analytical, prioritization and negotiating skills
* Usability and customer-focused design experience a plus
* Experience with A/B testing a plus
* Passionate about building great products and solving customer and business problems
* Strong quant and analytical abilities -- you use data to make decisions but do not suffer from analysis paralysis.

Experience must include:

* Comfortable understanding and discussing technology concepts, experience evaluating trade-offs and new opportunities with technical team members
* Proven track record designing and delivering customer experiences that create customer and business value
* Demonstrated track record of aligning to an overarching product vision, using data and analysis to support strategy and prioritization, and day to day product execution
* Experience with technical product backlog management and prioritization of user stories

About us

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons Culture Principles

* Compassion: We always treat each other with kindness and respect
* Team: We always support and recognize each other
* Inclusive: We always value everyone's perspective
* Learning: We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and others
* Competitive: We always act with integrity to win over the customer
* Ownership: We always take actions to drive our success

Physical Environment:

* Work may be performed in a temperature-controlled environment.
* Must sit, stand, or walk for extended periods of time.
* May spend long periods of time at desk or computer terminal.
* Will use keyboards, telephone, and other office equipment during the course of normal workday.
* Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in completion of job duties.
* Work day is fast paced; some evening and weekend work may be required.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume by visiting https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/careers/en/home.html

Diversity is fundamental at Albertsons Companies. We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people. A diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect.

The Albertsons Companies policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

We support a drug-free workplace -- some positions require applicants offered a position to pass a pre-employment drug test before they are hired.

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