Senior Product Manager- Merchandizing

Company description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview

As a Senior Product Manager, you will help our clients define, deliver and scale merchandising and catalog management capabilities in an agile and data-driven environment relentlessly focused on driving superior business outcome for our customers.

As part of your responsibilities, you will lead a collaborative, cross-functional and high performance team working with CX/UX designers, developers and senior management to guide merchandising and catalog management capabilities through to fruition and help teams build and enhance successful retail products that deliver a differentiated customer experience, meet the demands of the market and drive business results.

Responsibilities

• Own the product lifecycle for merchandizing and catalog-related features, including item setup, content enrichment, taxonomy, hierarchy, pricing, promotions, inventory visibility, and channel syndication

• Partner with merchandising and category teams to streamline item onboarding, SKU lifecycle management, and pricing workflows across multiple selling channels.

• Collaborate with engineering and data teams to build scalable and automated catalog ingestion and enrichment pipelines (e.g., PIM, MDM, DAM integrations).

• Ensure data accuracy and integrity across catalog systems by aligning data governance policies, enrichment standards, and attribution frameworks.

• Prioritize features and enhancements based on business value, scalability, and customer impact-using both qualitative and quantitative inputs.

• Monitor and optimize KPIs related to product discoverability, time-to-site, attribution completeness, and conversion.

• Explore, evaluate and implement AI/ML use cases, and evolving customer expectations for product content and merchandising

Qualifications

Qualifications (Expected):

• 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in retail, eCommerce, or omnichannel environments

• Deep understanding of merchandising operations, product lifecycle management, catalog syndication, and content optimization

• Familiarity with PIM/MDM platforms (e.g., Salsify, Informatica, Riversand, Akeneo), and experience integrating with CMS, ERP, or supply chain systems

• Strong presentation and communication skills

• Experience working with cross-functional teams in a matrix organization including Engineering, Marketing, Finance, UX, and Analytics

• Experience using data and analytics tools and well-developed intuitions for leveraging data and analytics in generating objective and actionable evidence for fast and data-driven decision making

• A track record of having effectively managed product roadmaps, writing clear and specific product requirement documents, collaborating with user-experience on product design and having worked in a cross-cultural, geographically distributed team

• Deep understanding of Retail industry, consumer operations and digital commerce space

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Qualifications (Preferred):

• Experience with GenAI-driven catalog enrichment, automated taxonomy generation, or large-scale data normalization.

• Demonstrated experience shipping product to market

• Strong analytics skills and experience using analytics/visualization tools

• Business and digital strategy experience

• Identifying organizational and process changes required to successfully realize the benefits of a solution

Additional information

Salary Range: $117,000- $175,000

Benefits of Working Here:

• Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
• 16 paid holidays throughout the year
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Corporate gift matching program

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.