Associate Director - Berlin, Deutschland - Wayfair

Wayfair

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Berlin, Deutschland

vor 1 Tag

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

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Beschreibung

About the Role:

This Product Management role offers the opportunity to influence business-critical decisions and collaborate with senior leaders across Wayfair.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a product leader with platform thinking to build and support new capabilities to power Supply chain technology aligning with planned business growth strategy.

We expect that the new platform capabilities will greatly improve operational efficiency, reliability, and end-to-end inventory visibility across all of Wayfair's supply chain while also improving customer and supplier experience.

Wayfair has ambitious growth and operational goals over the next two to five years, the platform capabilities you will work on would be in the center of them.

What You Will Do:

Provide product leadership for a team of engineers responsible for building the platform capabilities, services and API; lead strategy, roadmaps, and prioritization
Develop deep domain expertise and partner closely with operational stakeholders to create technologyenabled solutions to support Wayfair's supply chain strategy
Collaborate with adjacent product, engineering, and data teams responsible for various aspects of supply chain replenishment optimization to maximize the impact of the technology your team supports
Translate data into information and insights with clear scenario analysis, business impact, risks that helps the business make strategic decisions and implement strategies with success
Produce sustainable capabilities that can be reused with mínimal effort and provide comprehensive documentation and training for users.
Develop and maintain a technology roadmap and regularly update key partners and stakeholders, working closely with senior stakeholders across Wayfair to ensure vision aligns with broader company objectives
Influence resourcing on your team and supporting technology teams to ensure onbudget delivery of products and enhancements

Who You Are:

12+ years of product management experience in an agile development environment, ideally with exposure to a relevant product area
Experience building large scale reliable, performant cloud systems as individual contributor (Hands on Developer in past / Product Manager in recent past) in recent past is preferred
Experience working in supply chain and exposure to document exchange standards is highly preferred
Experience Design instincts and willingness to engage in handson fast prototyping to help engineers translate priorities into functional, intuitive workflows
Excellent analytical skills with demonstrated experience with hypothesisdriven learning and turning data into actionable insights
Superior communication skills with demonstrated ability to navigate a complex landscape
Experience in platform engineering, data visualization, reporting, or analytics preferred; intermediate proficiency with SQL
Bachelors in an engineering discipline with specialization in supply chain is preferred, MBA would be added advantage

About the Team:

The Supply Chain Technology Platform team enables smooth movement of items from supplier to warehouse from where items are delivered to the customer.

The Platform will provide complete visibility to suppliers, warehouse teams and data & analytics teams into the shipped packages as it moves through various transportation channel via ocean/land/air and various facilities which consolidates ordered items from various suppliers, breaking bulk packages destined for multiple different warehouses, collating orders from various suppliers destined to given warehouse etc.

both for procurement and returns.

This team is chartered to abstract the complexity involved in handling various document exchange standards like EDI, EDIFACT and custom document formats to enable easy and smooth integration with various players in the Supply Chain domain, empower suppliers/Wayfair procurement/Wayfair customers with detailed whereabouts of orders in flight from origin to final destination, to make appropriate business decisions like timely procurements of quantity and in demand items, predict lead time for good customer experience and the data & analytics team to recommend optimizations to bring in operational efficiencies and lower the supply chain handling cost.

Who We Are:

Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love.

Through technology and innovation, we make it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 14 million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement, housewares and more.

Partnering with Analytics, Operations, and business leaders across Wayfair, our Technology teams ensure that we're building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.

In the ever-changing landscape of ecommerce, optimal sourcing and positioning is not a static target, but instead one which is constantly evolving.

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