Location: Florida - Jacksonville

Employment Type: Salaried

Team: Product Management – Retail, Brands, Ops, B2B Tools

Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform, complete with offerings that excite fans and maximize the reach and presence for partners across the entire sports ecosystem. Come help us build a company the world has never seen before! We are first and foremost a technology company. We build innovative fan experiences through highly analytical, forward thinking, and open-minded collaboration. We are passionate about evaluating and finding the right tech for the jobs at hand, and we get excited about building solutions for modern challenges.

We are looking for an inspired and proficient Principal Product Manager who will strategize, develop, and manage a large portfolio of software solutions in the Global Supply Chain Tech domain – all of which allow us to manage multiple domestic and international warehouses; to pursue evolution in fulfilling orders quickly, accurately, and efficiently with increasingly more automation; and to deliver orders to our fans on time and at minimized cost. The ideal candidate has a depth of product management skills with an exemplary record of product cultivation, growth, and success. This individual always has the end user or customer in mind and is adept at building strong relationships with vendors, partners, and customers alike. We are searching for someone who is masterful in managing complex programs and implementations across a number of teams, external vendors, and dependencies. It is a necessity that this individual also come with extensive experience in supply chain operations and logistics at scale and exposure to modern warehouse management automation and technologies. Specific experience with SaaS (Cloud) warehouse management solutions, the Manhattan Associates product suite, Matthews International Control Systems, Proship or other enterprise TMS solutions, Fulfillment robotics, and/or other Tier 1 WMS and complimentary applications is a big plus.

What you'll be doing:

• Own and lead the ideation, research, proposal, development, and implementation of technologies to support our expanding global supply chain network.
• Drive the roadmap for product life cycles, the definition and realization of product requirements, iterative and perpetual assessment of prioritization, and roadmap milestone and key deliverable timelines.
• Unceasingly explore opportunities to evolve our products by staying updated with trends, industry standards, and emerging market and customer needs
• Help to build and manage the Global Supply Chain roadmap with critical consideration of the capacities and competing priorities of the Global Supply Chain software and quality engineering team, inherent dependencies in the broader roadmap across the tech organization, external dependencies on vendor work and deliverables, Ops and/or transportation requirements and timelines, and corporate business initiatives and priorities
• Build effective relationships and a communication cadence with the Industrial Engineers, Operations leadership, Transportation leadership, and business partners to frequently review problems to solve, growth plans, and new requirements.
• Work in coordinated partnership across an extensive tech organization using Agile methodologies to continuously deliver measurable and proven value for our users, stakeholders, and business partners.
• Establish product delivery success metrics and report out on achievements to Executive Leadership
• Work in partnership with Product Messaging to prepare and educate stakeholders and users in advance of iterative solution releases. e.g. Coordinate demos and Conference Room Pilots, Implement feedback mechanisms and effectiveness analysis cycles, Orchestrate and execute thoughtful and thorough change management
• Manage vendor and owned fulfillment and logistics solutions to ensure functionality and performance expectations are being met or exceeded, always in pursuit of modernization and scalability.

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience preferred
• 6-10+ years in a Product Owner and/or Product Management role
• Demonstrated ability in defining and delivering scalable products that solve complex problems
• Proven success in delivering measurable customer value through Product Ownership and strategy
• Strong technical understanding and ability to develop effective relationships with technology teams
• At least 5 years experience in E-commerce and/or Supply Chain Operations and Logistics
• Exemplary leadership and strategic thinking skills
• Proven success in managing large-scale critical initiatives and programs
• Exemplary organizational and communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Ability to maintain grace and perspective under deadline pressure
• Practiced in Agile methodologies – delivering a strategy via incremental releases
• Openness to occasional travel to our other locations in (and possibly outside of) the U.S.

Bonus Points!

• MBA or MS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Supply Chain technology
• Experience with SaaS (Cloud) warehouse management solutions
• Experience or knowledge in Fulfillment robotics or other automation
• Experience with JIRA and/or Trello
• Experience in writing SQL queries or utilizing Microstrategy to build dashboards/data views

Things We Care About

· Your career growth, your ideas, your work-life balance, and your well-being.

· Diversity and Inclusion

· Our Company Culture and Values

· Providing outstanding Company Perks and Benefits

Company Overview

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports ecosystem.

The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, through Topps as a cornerstone of the business, building a new model for the collectibles and trading cards hobby with top leagues and players association partners; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.

As a market leader with more than 9,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support. We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.

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