Product Manager Sr - Merch Financial Planning (Hybrid - Seattle)

Job Description

The Senior Product Manager for Merchandise Financial Planning plays a critical role in advancing Nordstrom's merchandise planning capabilities, supporting planners and merchants through a technology-driven transformation of how we think about financial planning at scale. As part of the Integrated Merchandising product team, you will own and define the financial planning capability roadmap within Toolio, orchestrating delivery across the Toolio vendor relationship and internal Nordstrom engineering teams to drive measurable, lasting value for our merchandise financial planning community. 

This role carries full end-to-end product ownership — from sustaining and supporting the legacy planning applications and reporting that teams rely on today, through the active migration to Toolio, to defining and delivering the future-state merch financial planning ecosystem. The right candidate operates independently across both near-term execution and multi-year strategic planning, and is equally comfortable managing day-to-day system health as they are crafting a phased capability vision and driving cross-organizational alignment on it. They bring deep knowledge of merchandise financial planning and retail math as the lens through which every product decision is made. 

What You'll Do 

As a Senior Product Manager on the Integrated Merchandising team, you will: 

• Define and own the financial planning product vision and roadmap within Toolio, independently prioritizing features that balance short-term deliverables with long-term capability progress. Build and maintain quarterly priorities and annual backlogs aligned to organizational strategy, and evangelize the roadmap across the organization and up and down the leadership pyramid.  

• Own the product strategy and day-to-day delivery for OTB management, Spend Controls, and Price Type Planning — including sustaining legacy planning applications and reporting until full migration to Toolio is complete and legacy systems are deprecated.  

• Translate complex merchandise financial planning user journeys into user stories, acceptance criteria, wireframes, and process flows; write complete requirements within the domain and influence across adjacent domains.  

• Orchestrate comprehensive planning sessions across the merch financial planning domain and cross-functional dependencies, framing tradeoff decisions with conviction and documented justification for leadership.  

• Partner with the Toolio vendor and internal Nordstrom engineering teams to deliver iterative value, leveraging sufficient technical knowledge to promote extensible product design and informed sequencing decisions — including go-to-market strategy, UAT, change management, and post-launch validation.  

• Define and monitor success metrics, OKRs, and KPIs, independently validating measurable value and adjusting the roadmap based on outcomes.  

• Lead user research with planners and merchants, synthesizing insights to identify product opportunities and inform prioritization across adjacent areas.  

• Evaluate market trends in merchandise planning technology — including AI/ML-driven capabilities — an