Senior Product Manager – Integrated Merchandising, Location Planning & New Stores

Role Overview

• Own a multi-year capability roadmap for Location Planning across Merch Planning, Assortment Planning, and Allocation
• Lead product strategy for New Stores: define the future-state technical solution, evaluate build-vs-buy options, build the business case, and own delivery from concept through adoption.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI and automation to LP workflows — including cluster optimization, location-level forecasting, new store seeding, and performance ramp modeling.
• Lead continuous discovery with location planners, new store teams, merchants, and allocators to validate priorities and ensure the roadmap reflects real workflow problems.
• Drive New Stores discovery: map the current manual process, identify pain points, and define requirements for a future-state technical solution.
• Own the LP product backlog — writing epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria that are clear and buildable across all three modules.
• Produce wireframes, process flows, and functional specifications sufficient for engineering and Toolio to design and build accurately.
• Partner with data and analytics teams to define measurement frameworks for LP effectiveness, new store ramp performance, and allocation accuracy.
• Serve as the integration point for LP across all three modules — ensuring location data, store clustering logic, and new store parameters are consistent across module boundaries.
• Coordinate release planning, UAT, and go-to-market readiness across impacted modules, ensuring LP changes are tested and adopted cohesively.
• Frame trade-off decisions with conviction — providing leaders with clear recommendations and driving alignment without requiring escalation.
• Build trusted partnerships with location planners, new store teams, merchants, allocators, and store operations.
• Manage day-to-day Toolio engagement on LP configuration, defects, and enhancements across all three modules — escalating clearly and advocating for Nordstrom’s priorities.
• Lead vendor evaluation for New Stores if a net-new tool is the right path — including RFP coordination and build-vs-buy recommendation.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of product management experience in retail planning, merchandising technology, or supply chain
• Functional expertise in location planning and/or new store planning — store clustering, store grading, capacity planning, new store seeding, or location-level sales forecasting.
• Fluency in retail planning concepts: plan hierarchies, BOP/EOP, sell-through, receipt flow, and how location-level decisions connect to financial and assortment outcomes.
• Experience owning product capabilities across multiple systems or workflows, with a track record of driving alignment across teams without direct authority.
• Comfort with ambiguity and greenfield product work — ability to define strategy and roadmap where no clear solution exists yet.
• Ability to write complete user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications independently.
• Experience influencing vendor roadmaps and managing third-party software partnerships.

Benefits

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources
• This position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses
• Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more.