Principal Product Manager Inventory Management

Overview: Tek Ninjas is a global software consulting and digital services company built for speed, scale, and innovation, headquartered in Carrollton, Texas. Our client operates in the Retail industry.

Job Title: Principal Product Manager (Inventory Management)

Location: San Francisco, California 94133.

Duration: 3 months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

THE ROLE:

The Principal Product Manager will own complex, high-value inventory management products from discovery through delivery. The role will translate retail business needs into product strategies, requirements, success metrics, and execution plans while advancing forecasting, decision support, automation, and AI/ML capabilities. Success will be measured through improvements in forecast accuracy, in-stock performance, inventory productivity, sell-through, margin, adoption, and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the product roadmap for retail inventory management.
• Lead product discovery and problem framing for forecasting, assortment planning, allocation, replenishment, and merch financial planning.
• Translate business objectives into product strategies, requirements, BRDs, and execution plans.
• Partner with merchandising, finance, supply chain, stores, ecommerce, analytics, and technology stakeholders.
• Improve demand forecasting, forecast collaboration, exception management, and planning accuracy.
• Advance capabilities for inventory investment, sales, margin, receipts, turn, and open-to-buy planning.
• Drive allocation and replenishment capabilities that improve product placement, availability, sell-through, and fulfillment.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes, spreadsheet dependency, and operational friction.
• Evaluate and deliver analytics, automation, AI/ML, forecasting, and optimization capabilities.
• Define product success metrics and measurement plans tied to business outcomes.

Required Skills & Experience

• Commerce inventory management experience
• Product data management experience
• More than 10 years of relevant product management experience
• Product roadmap ownership
• Retail planning and inventory workflow expertise
• Business requirements and product discovery experience
• Executive-level stakeholder collaboration

Preferred Skills

• Analytics and AI/ML use cases
• Demand forecasting
• Assortment planning
• Allocation and replenishment
• Retail technology experience

Tek Ninjas Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About TekNinjas

TekNinjas is a global IT staffing partner placing skilled professionals with leading enterprises and system integrators across the US, Canada, UK, India, and the EU. We focus on the right fit - not just the fast fill - and stay engaged with our consultants well beyond the start date.

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TekNinjas is an Equal Opportunity Employer.