IT Product Manager- Mobile Applications

Company: Neiman Marcus Group
Location: Irving
Posted on: February 20, 2021

Job Description:

Position Summary: The Neiman Marcus Product Management Team is looking for a skilled Digital Product Manager who is passionate about advocating for the customer, has excellent product instincts, a passion for creating great experiences, a data-centric mindset, agile thinking, and the willingness to challenge the status quo. The Mobile Apps Product Manager will be responsible for supporting the strategy of the Neiman Marcus Group and its digital and technology roadmap by delivering a brand new experience for our customers on iOS and Android Apps, supporting the Head of Product in the development of product strategy and prioritization of the product roadmap. The position will collaborate with business partners, subject matter experts, engineers and vendor partners to establish business and technical requirements & stories ensuring delivery of new features and functionality, as well as optimizations. --- You will own the high level business reviews and development of Mobile Apps strategy to present to NMG leadership. You will be successful by cultivating strong relationships with Technology and Delivery Leads to act as a leadership team for your product portfolio, while leading product-design teams and your engineering counterparts in problem-solving. The Product Manager will be responsible for supporting the strategy of the Neiman Marcus Group and its digital and technology roadmap. The position will collaborate with business partners, subject matter experts, engineers and vendor partners to establish business and technical requirements & stories ensuring delivery of new features and functionality, as well as optimizations. Key Responsibilities: -- Partners with senior leaders on program level strategy development and execution. -- Contributes to successful continuous delivery of product roadmaps, within budget and schedule, by identifying risks and developing & recommending mitigation strategies. -- Reviews tactical implications to products or business areas ensuring long-term goals and an enterprise view are represented in requirements. -- Lead & manage a scrum team by setting the priority and communicating a clear vision -- Creates and analyzes regular and ad hoc reporting to monitor business KPI's and to measure the effectiveness of product enhancements. -- Troubleshoots and researches issues related to changing trends, behaviors, or performance to identify what is impacting the business and determine how to address. -- Builds strong working relationships with teams across the organization & key stakeholders to help facilitate awareness and support of business strategies and initiatives. -- Supports and provides direction to the associate product managers in determining the impact of new functionality to existing business processes and system functionality. -- Ensures the team writes stories (requirements) of sufficient quality in order to provide a solid foundation for realizing the benefits of the project. -- Educates and evangelizes best practices throughout organization to build awareness for impact to business and ensure alignment for cross-team initiatives. -- Maintains market awareness of industry trends and competitive landscape to help identify necessary updates and new opportunities. -- Manages vendor partners to help solve customer and business problems and collaborate to drive for new innovations in products and services that best meet business needs and strategy. Qualifications: -- Must have extremely strong interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain and develop internal and external relationships; collaborating across multiple business and technology functions, relationship building and consensus building are essential -- Self-motivated and results oriented individual able to work independently and also work collaboratively with a team -- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization, and communicate with technical and non-technical audience Education & Work History Requirements -- 4-5 years of eCommerce or digital experience -- Lead a team through and entire mobile application development build out -- Experience in scrum/agile development methodology -- Retail experience preferred -- Familiarity with web analytics tools (preferably Adobe Analytics) and experience using data to make decisions -- Requires a Bachelor's degree in Business, IT or other related fields

Keywords: Neiman Marcus Group, Irving , IT Product Manager- Mobile Applications, IT / Software / Systems , Irving, Texas