Principal Product Manager - Inventory Management

Job Description About the Team You will be a key member of the Supply Chain Product Management team responsible for improving how Williams-Sonoma, Inc. plans, forecasts, allocates, replenishes, and manages inventory across brands, channels, categories, and fulfillment nodes. The team partners closely with Merchandising, Inventory Management, Planning, Allocation, Replenishment, Supply Chain, Stores, eCommerce, Finance, Analytics, and Technology to deliver scalable product capabilities that improve business planning, inventory productivity, forecast accuracy, in-stock performance, operational efficiency, and customer experience. About The Role Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is in the business of enhancing the quality of our customers’ lives at home. This Principal Product Manager role will be focused on driving product strategy and execution across core inventory management and planning capabilities, including Merch Financial Planning, Demand Forecasting, Assortment Planning, Allocation, Replenishment, and Inventory Optimization. This role will help define and deliver capabilities that improve how the business plans demand, builds assortments, manages inventory investments, allocates product, replenishes inventory, and responds to changing customer, channel, and supply chain conditions. The right candidate will bring deep retail planning and inventory management experience, strong product management discipline, and the ability to translate complex business processes into scalable technology-enabled products and capabilities. This role requires a product leader who can operate across strategy and execution: framing business opportunities, shaping roadmaps, aligning stakeholders, defining product requirements, evaluating solution alternatives, partnering with engineering and analytics teams, and ensuring delivered capabilities create measurable business value. Product strategy should start with the business problem, desired outcomes, and required capabilities rather than a predetermined technology solution. Responsibilities Own the product lifecycle for inventory management from ideation through adoption, continuously measuring business outcomes, incorporating customer and stakeholder feedback, and evolving the product roadmap to maximize business value. Drive the adoption of AI, machine learning, automation, and decision-support capabilities to improve planning quality, accelerate product delivery, reduce manual effort, and enable smarter business decision making. Partner with Analytics and Engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and deliver high-value AI use cases across the Inventory Management domain. Leverage generative AI and modern product management tools to improve product discovery, requirements development, backlog quality, documentation, and team productivity while championing responsible AI adoption across the product domain. Lead end-to-end product discovery by partnering with business stakeholders to define strategy, prioritize opportunities, and translate business needs into product roadmaps, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes. Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Analytics, and Program Management to execute product roadmaps, manage tradeoffs and dependencies, and deliver high-quality capabilities through Agile delivery. Lead product strategy across demand forecasting, assortment planning, merch financial planning, allocation, replenishment, and inventory optimization to improve forecast accuracy, inventory productivity, service levels, and financial performance. Advance merch financial planning capabilities that improve visibility into inventory investments, sales, margin, receipts, turn, open-to-buy, and related financial planning metrics. Drive allocation and replenishment capabilities that improve product placement, inventory availability, inventory productivity, sell-through, and customer fulfillment outcomes. Identify and prioritize opportunities to reduce manual work, spreadsheet…

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