Product Manager - Space & Assortment

RELEX Solutions create cutting-edge supply chain and retail planning software. Within our platforms, we have the power and potential to increase adaptability, efficiency and sustainability in the consumer goods and retail value chain. Our impact is tangible; from sustainability and eliminating waste to delighting customers and delivering great tailored tech solutions, we're curious and passionate challenge-seekers creating the future of retail today.

Our Product Team

RELEX Product team is pivotal in ensuring our continued growth. We build industry-leading products that fulfil the needs of world's largest and most advanced retailers and manufacturers. Our products use advanced cutting edge technology like AI and ML while being user-friendly and efficient to use for the thousands of users we have. We have the happiest customers of our industry, and our customers couldn't run their daily operations without RELEX. What's more, through optimizing our customers supply chains, we save 11m kg of food waste every year. We are proud of our culture: we have a strong, talented, and ambitious team who doesn't take themselves too seriously and has lots of fun together.

Join us as a full-time Product Manager with a focus on Micro Space (Planogramming) and Assortment offering, to join our RELEX family in North America.

Location: US (must live and work in EST/CST). With this role you have the option of working 100% remotely from US.

You will be joining our Space & Assortment (S&A) Product team - a branch of a larger global Product organization, which are based both at company HQ in Helsinki, and across Europe and the US. Our North America based Product Manager's aim to ensure that North American prospects, customers, partners and RELEXians have the best solutions to solve complex Category Management problems. You will help the Product and Engineering teams achieve this goal by utilizing expertise to input directly to the product roadmap and act as a local support to our Sales & Operations teams - guiding them on the latest addition and improvements to the existing and planned solution offering.

What you'll be doing:

Your key task will be to contribute to our product vision, strategy, and roadmap within the S&A product offering, with a specific focus on how we best evolve our solutions for Planogramming, Assortment Optimization and Vendor Collaboration. We want to ensure that our SaaS products are world class, they meet customers' needs now and in future, and allow us to continue to expand our presence within the North American market.

Your key responsibilities will be:

You will play an eclectic role contributing to many facets of our business. The focus of the role is on our Micro Space and Assortment solutions. Some of the key areas of responsibility are based around the following:

• Product Vision, Strategy & Roadmap:

• Establish a compelling product vision for the Space & Assortment applications and its place in the wide RELEX Living Retail Platform

• Build and manage elements of our strategic, long-term product roadmap and priority order of new initiatives

• Work closely with other Head's of Product, Product Managers, Development Managers, Engineering Directors & Mangers to support alignment of operative product roadmaps and other development targets, targeted within the product strategy and roadmap

• Work across Product areas and functions to help unify our application across the RELEX Living Retail Platform

• Schedule and participate in customer discovery, design, piloting and validation session

• Build out scalable model for knowledge sharing and support of new capabilities for North American RELEXians

• Be a product evangelist of your products both internally and externally (e.g., supporting sales, participate in analyst briefings, Customer Advisory Board and Special Interest Group participation, Community updates)

• Stay up to date on customer (Retail, Wholesale and CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods)) needs, technology trends, market trends, including the development of omnichannel business practices in the market

• Establish good working relationships with different key stakeholders within Product and Technology organizations, Customer Operations, Sales, Pre-sales, and Marketing teams

• Operations guidance/support

• Acting as a trusted partner/advisor to our customers and operations teams. Involvement in strategic customer implementations (Super Tier 1) providing guidance and expertise to operations team members with regard to solution design aligned to our product best practice and development roadmap.

• Provide insight to our central Space and Assortment Excellence, Best Practice & Training teams identifying opportunities for improved Operations Enablement.

• Lead customer roadmap updates and engagements alongside local and central Product team members

• Sales guidance/support

• Acting as a trusted partner/advisor to our prospects and sales/presales teams. Involvement in sales opportunities where new modules/capabilities are being considered ensuring proposed implementation schedule aligns to proposed roadmap

• Support with RFI and RFP submission in relation to roadmap items

• Guide Presales analytics team on standard demo needs for new modules/capabilities

• Support with roadmap updates or demos for new modules/capabilities until Sales Enablement with Feld Presales has been completed.

• Scope any necessary customer commitments for new modules/capabilities

What you'll bring to the table:

• 5+years working in Category Management with deep knowledge of Planogramming, Floor Planning, Assortment Planning

• Excellent communicator with ability to speak externally to Senior Managers, C-Suite and Decision Makers at customers and prospects

• Excellent understanding of the values and benefits driven by Category Management process for US retailers

• In-depth knowledge of Vendor-Retailer Collaboration / Category Captain model of planning

• Ability to turn customer objectives into clear strategic plan

• Detail orientated and able to capture requirements and needs of customer problems and requests

Our US Office:

RELEXians can be found around the world, and while we have team members working in 30 states, here, our main office is in Atlanta, Georgia. With a new, inviting and cool office space in Colony Square, when you're not travelling to customers or working from home, you can explore all there is to do in the area or bring along your pet for a change of scenery. Your future colleagues champion our world-class product and value our approach to flexibility and work-life balance. Our transparent culture is second to none, so don't be surprised at our impressive development and progression opportunities!

Across RELEX, our people are supported and rewarded. In the US, we go even further. As well as:

• Competitive compensation

• The choice to work wherever and however you are most productive

• 15 days of paid time off, 12 paid sick days, and 13 company holidays

We also offer up to 2 paid volunteer and charity days a year, a generous $500 work-from-home stipend and maternity and paternity leave that covers 12 weeks at full pay (after that, you can take time off unpaid or use your vacation days - it's up to you). And of course we offer all standard health benefits with various plans to choose from. But that's not all.

We're always ready to welcome new RELEXians to our team because your enthusiasm and expertise allow us to keep innovating and creating the future of planning for retail and consumer brands. If you're ready to be part of our growth, apply now.

Are you the one we're looking for? Apply today and become a part of our RELEX family!

You can apply by sending your cover letter and resume through the application form as soon as possible. Please note that we will fill this position as soon as we've found the right person, so we recommend that you act quickly.