Data Product Manager - Supply Chain at Photon

Job description

Key accountabilities / essential functions · Defines and maintains the roadmap for supply chain data products, aligning investments to service, inventory, productivity, cost and member-availability objectives. · Runs discovery with supply chain operators and leaders in clubs, distribution centers, transportation, replenishment, fulfillment and planning to understand decisions and operational constraints. · Owns prioritization across inventory visibility, in-stock and out-of-stock insights, replenishment, DC throughput, transportation, order visibility, exception management and network performance. · Defines canonical business concepts, operational KPIs, business rules, event requirements, latency expectations, acceptance criteria and data quality thresholds. · Partners with engineering, analytics and architecture to deliver governed products on Databricks that support both analytical and operational workflows. · Builds a path from descriptive visibility to predictive and prescriptive decision support, including exception alerts, demand sensing, inventory optimization and scenario planning where justified by evidence. · Plans launch, workflow integration, training, support readiness and adoption with operational users, recognizing that value is realized only when decisions and behaviors change. · Makes dependencies across merchandising, clubs, finance, vendors, logistics systems and shared data visible before they affect committed outcomes. · Measures product performance through adoption, timeliness, quality, decision-cycle improvement and the operational outcome each product is intended to influence. Scope, impact and decision making Owns an end-to-end portfolio of supply chain data products and makes roadmap, scope and sequencing decisions within that portfolio. Recommends trade-offs across operational domains and shared platform capacity. Products may serve corporate, distribution-center, club and field users, with impact measured through adoption, data quality, decision speed and relevant supply chain outcomes. Problem solving and complexity Supply chain problems are cross-functional, time-sensitive and dependent on rapidly changing inventory, order and logistics signals. The role must reconcile definitions across systems, balance real-time needs against feasibility and distinguish root causes from symptoms while designing products that work in operational settings. Leadership and influence Leads through product vision, evidence, facilitation and influence rather than direct authority. Creates clarity across business, data, engineering, analytics, architecture, security and change-management partners; makes trade-offs visible; and holds the product team accountable for outcomes and adoption. Key relationships and communication · Supply chain, logistics, replenishment, fulfillment and distribution leaders: strategy, discovery, KPI definition, prioritization and adoption. · Club operations and merchandising: inventory availability, workflow needs and cross-domain decisions. · Data engineering, analytics, data science, architecture and platform teams: data models, event patterns, performance, quality and delivery. · Technology application teams and external partners: source-system dependencies, integration requirements and operational readiness. Knowledge, skills and experience Required qualifications · 5+ years of relevant product management, data product, analytics product or comparable experience. · Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience. · Experience owning product vision, discovery, roadmap, prioritization, requirements, launch readiness, adoption and outcome measurement. · Hands-on working knowledge of Databricks and modern lakehouse concepts, including governed data products, pipelines, semantic layers, data quality, lineage and self-service consumption. · Ability to partner effectively with data engineering, analytics, data science, architecture, security, privacy and business teams. · Ability to define product outcomes and KPIs, use evidence to make prioritization decisions and communicate complex data topics in business language. · Working knowledge of agile product delivery, backlog management, dependency planning and change adoption. · Working knowledge of supply chain language and strategy, including inventory, replenishment, forecasting, purchase orders, distribution-center operations, transportation, fulfillment, service levels and exception management. Ways of working · Keeping member and business value the deciding factor when scope pressure would cut it first. · Building consensus across functions that have no reporting line to each other. · Changing direction when evidence shows an approach is not working rather than continuing because of sunk cost. · Holding commitments across concurrent workstreams and communicating early when constraints require a trade-off. · Holding data products to ethical, privacy, security, quality and governance standards under pressure to ship. Preferred qualifications · Retail, wholesale club, grocery, distribution, logistics or omnichannel fulfillment experience. · Experience with WMS, TMS, ERP, order management, inventory, robotics or automation data. · Experience with control towers, forecasting, optimization, event-driven data products or operational AI. Location type ☒ CSC/Remote ☐ Club ☐ Distribution Center ☐ Perishable DC ☐ Perishable HO ☐ Transportation ☐ Contractor Off Site Working conditions and physical requirements Work is primarily performed in a standard office or remote environment using computers and collaboration tools. The role may require periodic time in clubs, distribution centers or other BJ’s facilities to conduct discovery and understand operational workflows. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work travel requirements Occasional business travel may be required based on product discovery, planning, implementation and stakeholder needs. Compensation, Benefits and Duration Minimum Compensation: USD 60,000 Maximum Compensation: USD 210,000 Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role. Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees. This position is available for independent contractors No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post. Data Product Managers decide what gets built and why for BJ's supply chain data products. This role owns the vision, roadmap, prioritization and requirements for trusted data capabilities supporting inventory flow, replenishment, distribution, transportation, fulfillment and operational decision-making. It connects supply chain strategy to reusable products on the Databricks enterprise data platform and is accountable for adoption, data trust, operational value and time to action.

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Key accountabilities / essential functions
Defines and maintains the roadmap for supply chain data products, aligning investments to service, inventory, productivity, cost and member-availability objectives.
Runs discovery with supply chain operators and leaders in clubs, distribution centers, transportation, replenishment, fulfillment and planning to understand decisions and operational constraints.
Owns prioritization across inventory visibility, in-stock and out-of-stock insights, replenishment, DC throughput, transportation, order visibility, exception management and network performance.
Defines canonical business concepts, operational KPIs, business rules, event requirements, latency expectations, acceptance criteria and data quality thresholds.
Partners with engineering, analytics and architecture to deliver governed products on Databricks that support both analytical and operational workflows.
Builds a path from descriptive visibility to predictive and prescriptive decision support, including exception alerts, demand sensing, inventory optimization and scenario planning where justified by evidence.
Plans launch, workflow integration, training, support readiness and adoption with operational users, recognizing that value is realized only when decisions and behaviors change.
Makes dependencies across merchandising, clubs, finance, vendors, logistics systems and shared data visible before they affect committed outcomes.
Measures product performance through adoption, timeliness, quality, decision-cycle improvement and the operational outcome each product is intended to influence.
Scope, impact and decision making
Problem solving and complexity

Nice-to-haves

Retail, wholesale club, grocery, distribution, logistics or omnichannel fulfillment experience.
Experience with WMS, TMS, ERP, order management, inventory, robotics or automation data.
Experience with control towers, forecasting, optimization, event-driven data products or operational AI.
Location type
☒ CSC/Remote ☐ Club ☐ Distribution Center ☐ Perishable DC ☐ Perishable HO ☐ Transportation ☐ Contractor Off Site
Working conditions and physical requirements
Work travel requirements
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Maximum Compensation: USD 210,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
This position is available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post.

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