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Job Description

The Product Manager Senior 2 – Inventory Ownership is a key member of the Product Management team, responsible for spearheading initiatives that simplify and optimize inventory ownership and transaction management systems critical to our Inventory operations. In this role, you’ll lead the charge in shaping the future of products that segment inventory ownership, uphold system-of-record integrity, establish a unified and reliable source of truth for inventory data, and serve as the backbone of our inventory management strategy.

Product Management is responsible for ensuring we build the right products and features to support our business and operational goals. To accomplish this, product managers define and execute the product roadmap, prioritize the technology backlog, lead product discovery efforts, and measure and communicate the results of features in production—all while ensuring alignment across stakeholders. This role will require a strategic thinker who can synthesize customer insights, market trends, and technical constraints into actionable roadmaps and features. You will collaborate cross-functionally with teams in business, engineering, operations, and finance to drive progress, ensure alignment, and deliver measurable impact at scale.

A day in the life…

As a Product Manager Senior 2, you will:

+ Encourage Innovation: Proactively foster creativity across functions and domains, championing experimentation and forward-thinking solutions.

+ Lead Strategic Planning: Orchestrate comprehensive planning sessions to align dependencies and domains across the organization, driving clarity and focus at an advanced level.

+ Evangelize Your Vision: Clearly articulate your product vision and roadmap, shaping organizational trajectories and influencing strategic decisions across business and technology stakeholders.

+ Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner seamlessly with business and technology teams to deliver impactful product solutions, ensuring responsive support and alignment with strategic goals.

+ Leverage Market and Customer Insights: Conduct independent customer research, synthesize findings, and develop a deep understanding of opportunities informed by market trends, competitive landscape, and external risks.

+ Optimize Product Design: Use technical and domain knowledge to promote extensible product design and agile delivery, enabling scalable, repeatable solutions across multiple domains.

You consistently demonstrate the following strengths…

We’re looking for someone who:

+ Defines Boundaries & Drives Innovation: Removes industry-wide ambiguity by leveraging data, customer insights, and market trends to define product boundaries, amplify value propositions, and align stakeholders.

+ Delivers Iterative Value: Breaks down roadmaps into releasable features, prioritizes features to support strategic goals, and writes complete user stories with acceptance criteria across domains.

+ Balances Vision and Execution: Crafts a multi-phase, impactful product vision aligned with company strategy while delivering iterative value in the short term.

+ Advances Product Performance: Designs testing strategies, measurement tools, and telemetry to validate hypotheses, optimize product-market fit, and iterate based on learnings.

+ Manages Risks and Dependencies: Proactively drives progress across deliverables, manages risks and dependencies, and ensures outcomes are achieved across functional and domain boundaries.

+ Frames Tradeoff Decisions: Contextualizes organizational tradeoff decisions within the broader strategy and provides informed recommendations supported by documented justifications.

Qualifications:

+ Experience: Minimum 7+ years’ experience in product management, technology, or enterprise systems, with expertise in inventory systems, supply chain, or ERP platforms preferred.

+ Domain Expertise: Familiarity with inventory ownership models, system-of-record principles, and data aggregation methodologies. Experience with Oracle SIM, WMS platforms, and custom-built enterprise systems is highly valued.

+ Strategic Acumen: Proven ability to lead cross-organization alignment, define multi-phase product strategies, and deliver impactful solutions that align with long-term company objectives.

+ Technical Acumen: Strong understanding of ERP system design, data architecture, and integrations. Ability to evaluate build vs. buy opportunities and inform strategic product decisions based on technical constraints and scalability.

+ Analytical Skills: Proficiency in defining, measuring, and analyzing processes to identify improvement opportunities, optimize performance, and validate hypotheses through testing and telemetry.

+ Collaboration Skills: Demonstrated ability to build relationships across engineering, business operations, and external partners to co-define product strategy, roadmap, and execution.

+ Leadership & Communication: Exceptional interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across the organizational hierarchy and domains.

+ Education: Bachelor's degree in business, information technology, computer science, data science, or related field required. Advanced degrees (MBA or equivalent) are a plus.

We’ve got you covered…

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

+ Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away

+ Life Insurance and Disability

+ Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

A few more important points...

The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.

Nordstrom will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation should contact the nearest Nordstrom location, which can be identified at www.nordstrom.com .

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Pay Range Details

The pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different in other locations.

Washington: $141,000 - $258,000 Annually

This position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses. Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more. Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment. Learn more in the Nordstrom Benefits Overview by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: https://careers.nordstrom.com/pdfs/Ben\_Overview\_17-19.pdf

About Us

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Whether you’re a genius engineer, a phenomenal salesperson or a supply chain pro, we invite you to bring your unique talents and join our team. We reward great work, promote from within and celebrate diversity.

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