Sr Product Manager, Network Planning

Schedule: Full Time Employment

Job Type: Hybrid

Salary Type: Salary

Req #:1096

About The Role

As a Parcel Product Manager at Uber Freight, you will play a pivotal role in driving the growth and success of our parcel shipping services. You will be responsible for defining a compelling product vision and strategy, planning deliverables, and leading the development and launch of cutting-edge resource and capacity planning/optimization solutions for parcel network. This role demands a deep understanding of the parcel shipping industry and planning tools. This role requires exceptional communication skills to convey plans, insights, data, and results to internal teams, executives, and external partners. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including operations, sales, software engineering, industry SMEs, marketing, operations, and finance, to ensure the successful execution of our product roadmap with industry-best offerings. You will be thought leader bringing the voice of the customer to product innovation.

What The Candidate Will Do

• Product Vision and Strategy: Define a clear product vision and strategy for the team, identifying both short-term and long-term initiatives to create an effective product roadmap.
• User-Centric Approach: Translate user needs into product requirements by deeply understanding user problems, formulating hypotheses, and articulating desired outcomes.
• Communication: Effectively communicate product plans, tradeoffs, and results to a diverse audience, including internal partner teams, executives, end-users, and external customers.
• Experimentation: Launch experiments to test changes and analyze results, making data-driven decisions and tradeoffs to drive product launch decisions.
• Innovation: Lead the development, launch, and adoption of innovative features and experiences that integrate Uber Freight's TMS Parcel solution seamlessly.
• Collaboration: Partner with various teams within Uber Freight, adapting their features and plans to accommodate planning use cases and parcel shipping needs.
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Collaborate with a world-class team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and user researchers, setting clear team deliverables, defining the roadmap, and driving execution.
• Cultivate Team Culture: Build and nurture a strong team culture centered around collaboration, execution, and delivering results.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 4 years of work experience with Parcel logistics industry
• 2 years of experience with network planning, S&OP and optimization tools for parcel logistics
• 3 years of work experience with Product Management experience delivering technology products.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage deadlines, and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Be able to identify Parcel product vision and communicate that to all levels of the business
• Experience partnering with internal and external stakeholders to define vision and deliver the product on time
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 4 years of experience and knowledge of the parcel shipping industry
• Knowledge and experience with data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI
• Knowledge and experience with forecasting, planning and optimization tools/processes
• Stellar design instincts and product taste
• A comprehensive background in logistics and parcel shipping and the industry landscape
• A high level of business acumen and communications skills to communicate effectively externally and internally, with all levels of employees within any size company
• High standards across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with to the products you work on
  
  

Benefits & Compensation For U.S. Employees

Employees working more than 30 hours in the US at Uber Freight are eligible for benefits like a company sponsored health plan, dental and vision benefits, 401k match, financial and mental wellness benefits, parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance and more. US based employees may also be eligible for a performance or sales incentive bonus program, participation in Uber Freight equity awards, and other types of compensation depending upon the role.

About Uber Freight

Uber Freight is a market-leading enterprise technology company powering intelligent logistics. With a suite of end-to-end logistics applications, managed services and an expansive carrier network, Uber Freight advances supply chains and moves the world’s goods. Today, the company manages nearly $20B of freight and one of the largest networks of carriers. It is backed by best-in-class investors and provides services for 1 in 3 Fortune 500 companies, including Del Monte Foods, Nestle, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and more. For more, visit www.uberfreight.com.

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EEOC

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