Nordstrom-posted 3 days ago
$200,500 - $332,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Hybrid • Seattle, WA
Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers

The Director of Product Management - Inventory will lead the strategy, vision, and execution for enterprise-wide inventory management capabilities, ensuring Nordstrom has accurate, real-time, and actionable insights into inventory across all nodes and channels. This role will be accountable for building scalable solutions that enable end-to-end inventory visibility, optimization, and decision automation-empowering business teams to maximize sell-through, customer experience, and profitability. This leader will partner closely with engineering, supply chain operations, merchandising, finance, and store/fulfillment teams to design and deliver capabilities that integrate product lifecycle, demand signals, inventory health, and movement across the network. The Director will oversee multiple product teams, each focused on distinct aspects of inventory strategy, and will own the roadmap to support corporate growth and operational excellence.

  • Define the long-term inventory product vision and roadmap, aligning with Nordstrom's corporate strategy and customer experience goals.
  • Champion a single source of truth for inventory across all nodes (vendors, consolidators, distribution centers, fulfillment centers, stores, and in-transit).
  • Drive adoption of inventory optimization capabilities, including automated decision-making and predictive analytics.
  • Lead multiple product managers and teams to deliver high-impact capabilities, from inventory visibility to allocation, replenishment, movement, and optimization.
  • Translate business needs into actionable product requirements and user stories, ensuring scalability and operational resilience.
  • Own the prioritization process, balancing short-term business needs with long-term capability development.
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership to ensure timely and high-quality product delivery.
  • Partner with operations, merchandising, and planning teams to define requirements, KPIs, and success metrics for inventory capabilities.
  • Work with data science and analytics teams to develop forecasting, promise, and optimization models.
  • Build, coach, and inspire a high-performing product management organization with clear accountability and ownership.
  • Foster a culture of customer-centric, data-driven decision making.
  • Develop career growth plans for product team members and drive team engagement.
  • At least 10 years of experience combining inventory and/or supply chain, product, and program management skills to drive strategic initiatives focused on process creation, standardization, and improvement.
  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, supply chain management, engineering, or a related field from an accredited institution.
  • Demonstrated experience in owning and driving the strategy and definition of product roadmaps.
  • Proven track record of end-to-end product delivery, managing the entire product lifecycle from concept through launch and beyond.
  • Experience with feature delivery and making tradeoffs of a product.
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, effectively articulating ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience in leading and mentoring a team of product, inventory, supply chain managers, or related roles.
  • Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
  • Life Insurance and Disability
  • Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources
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