Product Manager, Integrated Planning

Integrated Planning, Supply Chain Technology

Are you good at connecting the dots between business processes and how they are brought to life using data & technology? Are you passionate about retail, supply chain & merchandising? Do you consider yourself suitably placed at the junction of people, process & technology and well poised to leverage your position to drive meaningful business results? Are you fascinated by the world of supply chain planning and have proven results to show for? If yes, then we might have an exciting opportunity for you

About the team

Pandora's Supply Chain Technology department is looking for a seasoned Product Manager to support the 'Integrated Planning' product line – it is a suite of products supporting key capabilities within Merchandising, Supply Chain & Manufacturing Planning. As our new colleague you will be part of our Agile ways-of-working and will be working across our value streams, with a strong focus on Demand Planning & Allocation.

In this role, you will be an expert in and understand the key drivers and complexities of driving technology innovation and capability building in an extremely competitive market, with particular focus on ongoing initiatives at Pandora around ERP modernization & bringing in a new E2E Integrated Planning solution – o9.

As a Product Manager within Integrated Planning, you will be responsible for understanding as-is business processes within the realm of Demand Planning & Allocation, as well as help envision the future as Integrated Planning embarks on its digital transformation journey. Reviewing and providing input into solutions and then coordinating and supporting the communication and delivery of those requirements with relevant parties would be a key part of your job. With our strong focus on quality, we also expect that you will play a role in creating and executing test cases, validating with our end users and communicating issues back to your product teams so that we ensure that our solutions are scalable, simple and drive operational excellence.

As mentioned earlier, the role is centered around Demand Planning and Store Allocation and hence you would be working closely with Pandora's Global Merchandising business team. You will be a key member within our o9 implementation program (Program Hero), driving the product team during build, SIT/UAT and Go Live, working closely with solution architects and o9 configuration team in landing an aligned data architecture. Demand Planning & Allocation track within Integrated Planning product line is focused on optimizing product availability & net inventory working capital by providing capable and reactive planning solutions that can scale for complexity. Aspects of the role would be operational & commercial-focused, and would involve business user training and onboarding to our suite of existing and incoming new products.

Your role as a Product Manager:

• Own features refinement and prioritization for Demand Planning & Allocation track within Program Hero
• Collaborate with business users (e.g Demand Planners & Allocators) to understand planning requirements, and help map them back to product roadmap & backlog
• Build proficiency in understanding the data landscape for planning solutions, and how it relates to ERP & various planning functions
• Lead discovery towards new initiatives that support digital transformation at Pandora, and help shape the long range plan for Integrated Planning
• Work with owners of interfacing systems to manage dependencies
• Work closely with Engineering Chapter within Supply Chain Technology, and quickly gain understanding of technology landscape within Integrated Planning
• Understand and be a promoter for DevOps way of working

What you need to succeed:

• 8+ years of experience as a Product Manager preferred, with prior exposure to and expertise in working within supply chain planning functions (demand planning, supply & capacity planning, merchandise planning, assortment planning)
• Experience from retail, fashion, FMCG industry highly preferred
• Bachelor's degree in sciences, engineering, technology or economics; Master's qualifications is a plus
• Prior experience working in an Agile setup
• Experience in the development of documentation of business process, requirements and business cases in non-technical language, clearly articulating benefits
• Experience conducting interviews and workshops for requirements gathering and validation including working with internal customers and both internal and external technical experts
• Knowledge of information systems development, testing principles, project methodologies

ABOUT PANDORA

Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.

At Pandora, we believe that creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and reflecting societal diversity in our customer engagement is essential to delivering on our company purpose: to give a voice to people's loves. We dedicate ourselves to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and diversity where everyone feels respected and valued.