Product Manager

Category/Area of Expertise: Product Management
Job Requisition: 558449
Address: USA-IL-Chicago-300 South Riverside Plaza
Store Code: CF Product Management (5157600)
Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.
Primary Purpose
Own strategy, discovery, and execution for a complex sub-domain or small domain. You will define the roadmap, lead discovery for major initiatives, drive domain-level product rituals, and partner across multiple teams to deliver measurable customer and business value.
Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations include Chicago, IL.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Duties and Responsibilities • Own the product vision and roadmap, translating objectives into prioritized epics, features, and clear problem statements aligned with group level goals.• Lead discovery for complex and net new features, synthesizing customer insights, market dynamics, and data into actionable requirements.• Define and lead OKRs and success metrics, monitoring performance and value realization to inform iteration and prioritization.• Drive planning and delivery rituals across the sub domain, ensuring alignment with engineering, design, operations, and adjacent domains.• Lead cross domain collaboration, managing risks, dependencies, and inter team dynamics to ensure delivery quality and momentum.• Monitor product performance and usage trends, translating insights into prioritized continuous improvement initiatives.• Influence senior leaders and stakeholders by articulating a compelling product vision and data backed recommendations.• Mentor junior product managers, facilitate knowledge sharing, and contribute to elevating product craft across the team.• Demonstrate strong ownership of personal growth, continuously expanding product, domain, and craft expertise.• May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed.
Qualifications • Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.• 8+ years of experience in product management or a related discipline.• Strong experience owning product roadmaps and backlogs, translating objectives into prioritized work using agile delivery practices.• Proven experience leading product strategy, discovery, and delivery for complex problem areas or products.• Strong analytical skills and data fluency, with the ability to synthesize insights from analytics, experimentation, and customer research into sound decisions.• Clear, effective communicator and collaborator, able to work across engineering, design, operations, and business partners.• Collaborative mindset, with experience navigating multi team environments, dependencies, and trade offs.
Preferred Qualifications • Experience supporting fulfillment execution, order management, picking workflows, associate-facing desktop and mobile applications, or related retail operations platforms.• Recognized subject matter expertise within a major fulfillment product domain, enterprise platform, or operational capability.• Experience guiding platform modernization, capability expansion, integration strategy, or enterprise transformation initiatives.• Demonstrated success leading highly visible programs that span multiple product, engineering, architecture, and operational teams.• Background in platform -adjacent products, integration-heavy solutions, or enterprise operational systems.• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and leadership beyond the immediate product team.• Commitment to mentorship, team development, documentation, and organizational knowledge sharing, including coaching product managers and contributing to product practice maturity.• Experience operating in highly matrixed or cross-domain environments and defining requirements and success measures for emerging or AI-enabled capabilities.
Salary Range: $136,160 - $204,240
Actual compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on their unique qualifications and experience, internal equity, and market conditions. Final compensation decisions will be made in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.
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At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent.
Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.
Our associates are the heartbeat of our organization. We are committed to offering a welcoming work environment where all associates can succeed and thrive. Guided by our values of courage, care, teamwork, integrity (and even a little humor), we are dedicated to being a great place to work.
We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business.
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