Walmart Global eCommerce   BASIC DETAILS Position Vacant : Manager, Product Management, Supply Chain Job Category : Product Management Job Level : Senior Product Manager Location : San Francisco Openings : 1 Employment Type : Full Time Posted On : 9 Mar 2010 Expires On : 30 May 2010   JOB DESCRIPTION Education : N/A Key skills : Over 7 years relevant professional experience required; • 1-3 years experience managing direct reports Description : ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: People Leadership (30%) • Develop, lead and inspire PM team members, each responsible for managing product initiatives that drive the Walmart.com business • Create and foster career development and growth paths for team members in alignment with company, product and personal objectives • Create clear and measurable goals and objectives for the team related to the creation and enhancement of timely, high-quality products that support critical business objectives, requirements change management, and partnership with cross-functional teams • Raise awareness of team’s plans, insights and accomplishments in order to facilitate cooperation across departments and to build a highly performing, highly motivated team • Assist direct reports with ongoing prioritization and resource allocation to ensure that the crucial business initiatives are delivered • Recruit and hire Product Managers Product Strategy (20%) • Develop and champion a product vision and strategy in support of the Operations team’s goals and objectives. • Evangelize product strategy and vision to the product management and company leadership team • Research and recommend new products, tools and applications • Support product managers in identifying and conducting internal and external customer, competitor and industry research to uncover latent customer needs, competitive threats, and emerging trends • Work with product managers to develop clear and complete business cases and present to senior management the information necessary to make informed approval, prioritization and tradeoff decisions. • Balance scope of development projects against one another to determine how to make the most efficient use of resources to create the greatest level of value for the company • Ensure that product managers ensure that accurate and robust financial modeling and scenario analysis is completed for all major initiatives Product Oversight (40%) • Constantly question and clarify the cross-functional implications of all product decisions and ensure that critical business issues are surfaced and considered • Serve as a voice of the customer and act as a customer experience advocate in considering product decisions that will impact the customer • Ensure that product specifications meet high standards for quality before approval • Champion a point-of-view to product management leadership regarding the relative importance of various initiatives that are ready to move to the development phase • Guide product managers to ensure the product specifications are well understood by engineering • Support team members as they provide product requirements clarification and reply to implementation considerations raised by the development team • Oversee pilot testing new product and proof of concept initiatives • Coach Product Managers as they respond to project escalations with an assessment of the business implications of changes to project scope, timeline, or resources Senior Stakeholder Management (10%) • Ensure that all relevant parties and key stakeholders are informed of product status from concept through launch • Communicate key product metrics to executive leadership team • Develop and maintain relationships with key business owners and senior management  Compensation : Competitive