Product Manager

at  Staples

SPECIFICALLY, YOU WILL:

Participates in the management of daily business activities to ensure that business priorities and end user expectations are being met.
Writes and prioritizes requirement stories / develops business cases where required
Engages teams to ensure projects are delivered on-time and on-budget.
Manages cross-functional relationships, communication and negotiation.
Provides routine and transparent product updates to executive level stakeholders via formal presentations and written communication.
Stays informed of industry trends and best practices for current products to shape how to go about meeting business needs while performing research and providing recommendations for enhancements to current suite of products.
Identifies key needs, perform gap analysis, assess new product ideas / innovations, determine market opportunity and participate in prioritization of initiatives
Adapts well to change in direction and priority in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.

This individual works with both the business and technical teams to build and maintain the core digital & eCommerce platforms for Staples Canada and develop a commercially viable product roadmap. This position primarily focuses on providing product technical guidance, vision for innovative and scalable front-end platforms, and development of detailed monitoring dash boards. This individual should be able to collaborate, research new trends in the industry, and continue to modernize our systems while maintaining current platforms. This individual is ultimately responsible for planning, development, integration, optimization, migrations, deployments, and maintenance of these critical business applications. He or she will drive process maturation that matches the growth of the business and supports the future-state vision. This position interacts with other cross functional teams like Software Development, Project Management, Quality Assurance, etc. to implement and deliver tools and processes to meet business needs.