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Client: Lululemon

Title: Product Analyst, Fulfillment Systems

Location: Seattle, WA – hybrid (Local highly preferred, can try for relocation with an ideal candidate)

Duration: 12+ M

Visa: USC/GC/EADs

Interview: 2 Rounds Video

LinkedIn: Must have

• Using or implementing systems to support: Global Labeling and Packaging, Label Artwork Management Systems, Regulatory Compliance, Label Provider Partnerships (for example: Avery Dennison, SML or other)
• 1-2 years of agile experience in Product Management or equivalent role (SAFE methodology preferred).
• Preferred experience in any of the following: Apparel, Footwear, Accessories.  Secondary preference would be any product requiring labeling
• Product Analyst will work closely with Product Manager’s to define the requirements to hand off to the Technology Team to deliver solutions
• The Product Analyst will be shared equally between two closely related programs

JOB MANDATE

• The Product Analyst, Fulfillment Systems will deliver tangible growth products to our company in every stage of our product life cycle, through the relentless pursuit of great software experiences while considering operating advantage and positive community impact.
• Our systems are primarily packaged software but require a high degree of configuration and/or customization to meet business partner’s needs, and therefore require collaboration in the full ideation and development of our capabilities in the Inbound Logistics, Distribution Operations, Engineering, Trade, and Outbound Logistics space.
• Work with product fulfillment systems counterparts, project leaders, and operational leaders to understand upcoming capabilities and help to scope out the customer experience. Collaborate with dependent product teams to ensure that the end-to-end implementation journey is thorough and thoughtful. Support in writing robust requirements, prioritize the backlog, and work closely with the engineering teams to deliver and test quality software.

INPUTS

• Business capabilities to support company vision from key cross-functional partners: Inbound Logistics, Distribution Operations, Engineering, Trade, Outbound Logistics, Retail Operations, Digital and MP&A
• High level road map with prioritization of Fulfillment systems work within respective product teams from Inbound Logistics, Distribution Operations, Engineering, Trade, and Outbound Logistics that scales the Fulfillment network to meet service, cost, and throughput objectives managed by the Manager Product Fulfillment Systems
• Partnership with the Fulfillment Technology team to ensure accurate execution and availability of all technology tools to support our Fulfillment teams (i.e. – GTN, WMS, LMS, Envision, Anaplan, TMS)

& OUTPUTS

• Documents the product needs, user needs, pain points, user impact, and desired outcomes for features clearly and succinctly to different audiences and cross-functional partners to deliver solutions that enable the Fulfillment roadmap
• Communicates dependencies with other strategic initiative, uses the product roadmap to analyze the scope of work across the fulfillment teams and supports with impact analysis 
• Delivers clearly documented analysis for each initiative on the product roadmap, supports prioritization of new intake requests for work and communicates analysis clearly 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports to document, drive user stories and acceptance criteria to completion across functions based on MVP alignment 
• Supports in business and functional requirements gathering and translates requirements into a project requirements, plans and charters
• Supports the Product intake process through qualitative and quantitative analysis and assists in project go-lives by supporting with operational and system impact analysis
• Develops specialized knowledge of industry trends and standards to introduce the continual process, tool, and methodology improvements 
• Partners with the Product Manager(s) to support in the delivery of defined business capabilities and value within the project scope 

APPROVALS

Works closely with Product Fulfillment Systems peers, ensuring intakes are documented consistently, analysis is thorough, and impacts are being communicated to Global Fulfillment peers

SUPPORT ACTIVITIES

• Coordinates the product intake process to administer, document and evaluate new requests to be properly prioritized into product backlog
• Advises product intake requests by gathering, analyzing and interpreting data to provide meaningful insights to new requests
• Coordinates with product management team to provide status reports and Steering Committee updates for the product roadmap
• Administers and supports tools utilized by product management team including toolkits, trackers and roadmaps