Director of Product, Supply Chain Technology

Company: QVC, Inc.
Location: Seattle
Posted on: September 17, 2020

Job Description:

Director of Product, Supply Chain Technology USA, WA, Seattle

Job Description Details

Zulily is an online retailer that offers new, well-priced products every day. We help customers continually discover unique and exciting items at incredible value. Zulily strives to deliver three unique elements each day to every one of our customers – fresh (products, brands), boutique (unique, unexpected items), and value (great low prices).

Zulily serves over 6M active customers across the world delivering products from over 15,000 brands. We operate country-specific storefronts in 8 countries (US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong). 70% of our orders come from mobile devices, one of the highest in retail, while over 90% of our orders come from repeat customers, an indication of strong customer loyalty. Zulily uses 100 new events (mini storefronts) to launch over 9,000 products daily, 30% are which are new, delivering a high degree of freshness to the site. About the Supply Chain Tech team:

Supply Chain Tech (SCT) builds the software that powers both Zulily’s fulfillment network and an increasing part of QVC and HSN’s networks. Our combined fulfillment operations make us the third-largest pure-play ecommerce company in the world, and our build-first software teams create a range of solutions including network-wide inventory, transportation, shipment planning, procurement, and every function within our state-of-the-art fulfillment centers. SOA, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD (actual CD – 20-50 production deployments per day), TDD, monitoring and DR are assumed, and the type of work can be mobile applications, internet-scale services that are deciding how much to buy and when, integrating with robotic storage systems, or a giant traveling salesman problem for optimizing routes for our warehouse pickers.

Job Description Details

Responsibilities Include:

· Hire and develop great Product Managers at all levels

· Lead the ongoing strategy, definition, adoption, and value generation for your technology products and services

· Develop, communicate, and manage the strategy and delivery of the full product lifecycle for our Merchandising & Vendor Platforms

· Oversee the development and delivery of large-scale initiatives which include new products, significant refactoring, and new technology stacks adoption

· Manage multiple complex products which are broad in scope, interdependent, high risk, high impact, and with various implementation time frames that impact the greater Zulily organization

· Manage a metrics program with an emphasis on objectives and key results (OKR), monthly business reviews (MBR), A/B testing and measured business value (ROI)

Qualifications:

· 5-10 years Product Management experience at a senior level position for a well-known large technology organization

· 3-5+ years managing people ranging from individual contributors to senior management roles

· Experience in supply chain and/or warehouse management systems

· Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Lead cross-functional teams using Agile and Waterfall methods

· Proven track record of building high-performance teams

· Demonstrates exceptional relationship building skills with strong ability to influence others

· Proven history of working closely with business partners to successfully drive overall company objectives

· Experience road mapping or performing high level annual planning

· Demonstrates proven leadership of large end user projects and programs

· Bachelors or Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related Engineering fields; Bachelors in other fields are welcome; MBA, preferred

About Zulily, LLC

Zulily, LLC, is a retailer obsessed with bringing its customers special finds every day—all at incredible prices. zulily features an always-fresh curated collection for the whole family, including clothing, home decor, toys, gifts and more. Unique products from up-and-coming brands are featured alongside favorites

from top brands, giving customers something new to discover each morning. zulily was launched in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle with offices in Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania. For more information visit www.zulily.com . zulily, LLC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qurate Retail, Inc. (NASDAQ: QRTEA, RTEB), which includes QVC, HSN, Zulily and the Cornerstone brands (collectively, “Qurate Retail Group”), as well as other minority investments. Qurate Retail Group believes in a third way to shop -- beyond transactional ecommerce or traditional brick-and-mortar stores -- and is #1 in video commerce, #3 in ecommerce in North America and #3 in mobile commerce in the U.S. (according to Internet Retailer). For more information, visit www.qurateretailgroup.com .

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