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Our team ensures that our mobile, desktop, and app platforms deliver the digital experience that our customers expect.We do this through customer insights, analytics, and testing to build a strong innovation pipeline for the future and to bring products and solutions to market seamlessly. We utilize online merchandising and campaigns executed by both humans and automated tools to convert new and returning website visitors into customers. We work end-to-end with our sales, merchandising, finance, logistics and technology teams to provide a world-class, holistic digital experience, growing profitable results in a fun and rewarding work environment. We are inclusive, customer-obsessed, and are looking for well-rounded professionals with strong eCommerce business acumen to join our team.\nThe Product Manager - Inventory Forecasting and Replenishment is responsible for defining product priorities, managing the product backlog, and translating customer and business needs into actionable product requirements. This role collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to develop and enhance digital products and capabilities that improve customer experience and deliver measurable business results. Leveraging customer insights, analytics, market trends, and business priorities, the Product Manager drives roadmap execution, influences stakeholders, solves complex challenges, and supports innovation across Staples' digital platforms, including opportunities to leverage AI-enabled tools and capabilities.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing:\nDefine, prioritize, and manage the product backlog for assigned digital products, platforms, and capabilities.\nCollaborate with business leaders and stakeholders to align product priorities with customer needs, digital strategy, and business objectives.\nTranslate customer insights, analytics, market trends, and stakeholder feedback into user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria, and product recommendations.\nServe as a key liaison between business partners, engineering teams, UX, analytics, data science, and external vendors.\nPrioritize enhancements, defects, technical work, and feature development based on customer value, business impact, team capacity, and delivery timelines.\nPartner with engineering and UX teams throughout Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, testing, product reviews, and release readiness.\nMonitor product performance through KPIs, OKRs, customer feedback, and digital analytics to identify optimization opportunities.\nDrive discovery, experimentation, and continuous improvement efforts that enhance product performance and customer experience.\nAnticipate, manage, and resolve product issues, dependencies, and risks while ensuring successful delivery outcomes.\nUtilize AI productivity tools and partner with technical teams to evaluate AI/ML-enabled opportunities that improve customer experiences, operational efficiency, and decision-making.\nMentor and support less experienced team members by sharing product management best practices and Agile expertise.\nDrive the strategy, roadmap, and execution of supply chain planning products, including opportunities to build new capabilities from concept through launch.\nPartner with supply chain, inventory, planning, merchandising, and technology teams to improve demand planning, inventory forecasting, and operational decision-making.\nLead modernization efforts for legacy planning systems, helping evolve capabilities toward scalable, modern product and technology architectures.\nWhat You Bring To The Table:\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decision-making.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.\nAbility to thrive in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities and competing business needs.\nStrong collaboration skills and experience leading cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.\nPassion for creating customer-focused digital experiences and continuously improving product performance.\nAgile mindset with the ability to adapt quickly to changing business priorities.\nLeadership and mentoring capabilities with a commitment to developing others.\nCuriosity and practical experience leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and product outcomes.\nWhat’s Needed- Basic Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Product Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Marketing, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent professional experience. \n5+ years of product management experience with a focus on digital products or eCommerce platforms.\nExperience managing product backlogs, user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria, and feature prioritization.\nExperience delivering digital products through partnership with engineering, UX, analytics, data science, or other technical teams.\nProven experience managing products through the full product lifecycle, from concept through launch and continuous improvement.\nExperience leveraging customer insights, analytics, KPIs, OKRs, and performance metrics to drive product decisions.\nStrong experience managing multiple stakeholders, priorities, dependencies, and cross-functional initiatives.\nExperience creating product documentation, roadmap updates, business cases, and stakeholder communications.\nStrong analytical and quantitative skills with a bias toward data-driven decision-making.\nComprehensive understanding and practical application of Agile methodologies, tools, and frameworks.\nWhat’s Needed - Preferred Qualifications:\nMaster's degree in a related field.\nAgile certifications such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Agilist, PMI-ACP, or similar credentials.\nProduct management certifications such as AIPMM Certified Product Manager.\nExperience managing products across desktop, mobile, app, or eCommerce platforms.\nExperience with A/B testing, experimentation, conversion optimization, and customer journey analysis.\nExperience working with AI/ML-enabled products, personalization, automation, recommendations, search, or other data-driven capabilities.\nExperience partnering with data science and engineering teams to define success metrics, validate solutions, and drive continuous improvement.\nExperience using AI productivity tools to support product discovery, analysis, backlog management, and stakeholder communication.\nExperience working in B2B, commercial eCommerce, retail, supply chain, office products, or related industries.\nExperience building 0-1 supply chain products.\nStrong understanding of demand planning, inventory forecasting and supply chain operations to drive data-driven decision-making.\nUnderstanding of core planning concepts such as forecast accuracy, safety stock, service levels, lead times, order cycles, and inventory positioning.\nFamiliarity with S&OP/IBP, allocation, purchase-order planning, and inventory availability.\nExperience modernizing legacy planning systems to modern architecture.\nFamiliarity with Blue Yonder (formerly JDA), O9, or similar supply chain planning suites is a big plus.\nWe Offer:\nInclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups\n22 days of PTO and Holiday Schedule (7 observed paid holidays + 1 floating holiday)\nOnline and Retail Discounts, Company Match 401(k), Physical and Mental Health Wellness programs, and more!\nThe salary range represents the expected compensation for this role at the time of posting. 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