Sr Product Manager - Competitive Intelligence

Sr Product Manager In Competitive Intelligence

As a Sr Product Manager in Competitive Intelligence, you will own the end-to-end ecosystem spanning vendor management, data acquisition, ingestion, and CI product experience, in addition to driving data insights. This role is responsible for managing the full vendor lifecycle—including evaluation, onboarding, performance management, and continuous capability assessment—while ensuring strong cost governance and value realization from vendor partnerships.

A core focus area is the data gathering and ingestion layer, where you will drive scalable and reliable ingestion pipelines across multiple vendors and sources. This includes defining integration frameworks (APIs, pipelines), establishing data validation and quality mechanisms, and optimizing for speed, stability, and coverage of competitive data.

You will also own and enhance the Competitive Intelligence publish experience ensuring that ingested data is translated into intuitive, actionable, and high-adoption tools for pricing and broader business teams. This involves close collaboration with engineering, data science, analytics, and business stakeholders to deliver seamless user experiences and enable effective decision-making.

Overall, this role owns a platform-oriented product scope, covering vendor ecosystem management, data ingestion infrastructure, and CI product experience, while enabling high-quality data delivery and business outcomes across the pricing and broader competitive intelligence portfolio.

About You:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of overall work experience with 5+ years in retail
• 6+ years of Product management experience, preferably in data or platform-driven products
• Master's degree in Strategy, Product Management, or related field
• Strong experience in vendor management and external partner ecosystems, including vendor evaluation, onboarding, performance management, and cost governance
• Proven ability to manage end-to-end vendor lifecycle, including contract negotiations, SLAs, and ongoing capability assessments
• Experience owning or working closely with data acquisition and ingestion pipelines, including APIs, batch/real-time pipelines, and data integration frameworks
• Ability to define and implement data quality, validation, and monitoring frameworks to ensure accuracy, completeness, and reliability of ingested data
• Experience building and managing data platforms or product ecosystems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance of data flows across systems
• Strong experience in owning and driving product interfaces / platforms (Competitive intelligence UI or similar tools) that enable business teams to consume and act on data effectively
• Focus on user experience, adoption, and usability to ensure high engagement with product solutions
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams across engineering, data science, analytics, Product operations, business, and external vendors to deliver scalable product solutions
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience working across global teams
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex systems and align stakeholders
• Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, manage multiple priorities, and drive execution
• Strategic thinker with strong execution focus and proactive, diplomatic leadership skills