What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager, Inventory Planning position at Best Buy?
As the Product Manager, Inventory Planning, you will help shape the future of Best Buy's forecasting, replenishment, and inventory planning capabilities. You'll partner with business, engineering, data, supply chain, and implementation teams to support the transformation and modernize how inventory is planned and managed across the enterprise. This is an exciting opportunity for a collaborative, data-driven product leader who enjoys solving complex problems, influencing across teams, and delivering business value through technology and process innovation.
This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days on site at a Best Buy location and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process. For this role, you must be located within a drivable distance to our office in Richfield, Minnesota.
What you'll do
This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days on site at a Best Buy location and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process. For this role, you must be located within a drivable distance to our office in Richfield, Minnesota.
What you'll do
- Define product strategy and priorities for inventory planning, forecasting, and replenishment capabilities
- Translate business needs into product requirements, roadmap priorities, and measurable outcomes
- Partner across inventory, supply chain, merchandising, engineering, and data teams to align on future-state solutions
- Support implementation activities, including design, testing, deployment, and adoption
- Use data and business insights to improve forecast accuracy, inventory productivity, and planning efficiency
Basic qualifications
- 2 years of product management or related experience in a business, operations, technology, or supply chain environment
- 1 year of experience in strategy development, stakeholder management, delivery execution, or customer-focused solutioning
- Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, technology, engineering, marketing, or related field, or equivalent experience
Preferred qualifications
- 5 years of experience in product management, inventory planning, forecasting, replenishment, supply chain, or retail operations
- Experience delivering complex business and technology initiatives across multiple teams
- Knowledge of inventory planning, forecasting, replenishment, allocation, or supply chain planning processes
- Experience with enterprise planning platforms such as RELEX, Oracle RDF/AIP, or similar solutions
- Strong analytical skills and experience working in Agile product environments
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.
Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.
For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Position Type: Full time
Location/Region: Minneapolis, MN (55423)