Consultant – Product Management
Role : Consultant – Product Management
Skills – Mandatory - Retail operations & store process domain knowledge, Solutioning, impact analysis & scope control, Jira, Confluence & Agile practices
Skills - Primary - Retail operations & store process knowledge, Requirement elicitation & documentation, Functional solutioning & impact analysis, Process flow modeling & scenario identification, Stakeholder communication & coordination, Product ownership
Total Experience : 14 years to 18 years
Work Location : Cochin only
Job Purpose
To perform as a Product Owner with deep expertise in retail operations, ensuring clear understanding of customer business objectives and translating them into well-defined, in-scope requirements while driving alignment across stakeholders, systems, and delivery teams.
Job Description
• Strong domain expertise in Retail Store Operations, POS, and Inventory Management processes
• Proven experience working as Product Owner / Product Consultant across multiple delivery teams
• Hands-on experience in story writing, story reviews, acceptance criteria definition, and backlog grooming
• Ability to lead cross-team requirement discussions and functional reviews
• Skilled in preparing mindmaps, process workflows, and business scenario models
• Experience in impact analysis across store systems, POS flows, inventory, pricing, and integrations
• Strong working experience with Jira and Confluence in Agile environments
• Practical usage of AI tools for requirement analysis, documentation, scenario discovery, and productivity improvement
• Ability to coach and educate teams on better requirement practices and productivity methods
• Strong collaboration skills with Architecture, Development, QA, and UX teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to capture complete business objectives during requirement discussions with customers.
• Quickly understand current business processes and systems and leverage this knowledge in ongoing requirement discussions.
• Control requirement scope in line with approved baselines and contractual agreements, proactively highlighting deviations.
Following should be the responsibilities of a Consultant – Product Management:
• Act as Product Owner for Inventory, POS, and Store process features
• Lead story discussions with customer, refinements, and cross-team reviews
• Prepare process workflows and mind maps for features and store scenarios
• Drive clarity in user stories and acceptance criteria
• Ensure requirement completeness and testability
• Use AI tools to accelerate analysis and documentation quality
• Guide teams on requirement quality and productivity improvements
• Coordinate with multiple teams to ensure aligned delivery
• Support sprint planning, grooming, and review ceremonies
• Act as the primary point of contact between the client and development team, facilitating clear communication and managing expectations.
• Conduct regular meetings with stakeholders to provide updates on progress, address concerns, and gather feedback.
• Pre-sales Skills - Work with the marketing team to create project case studies, blogs etc.
• Willingness to Travel to client sites for short – medium duration