Principal Product Manager (B2B SaaS Retail/CPG AI)
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About the Role
OpenText is looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead strategic efforts in Retail, CPG, and Brands verticals within the Business Network portfolio.
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Responsibilities
- Own the vertical strategy for Retail/CPG/Brands verticals across multiple product lines, aligning with Business Network’s broader portfolio and platform capabilities.
- Engage directly with customers on site and at industry forums, conferences, and webinars to express thought leadership and assess industry challenges.
- Create, implement and manage Go to Market strategies for the Retail, CPG and Brands industries and serve as the Product Advocate for Sales, Solutions Consulting and Marketing teams.
- Partner and collaborate with core product managers and cross functional teams to define and deliver solutions addressing industry specific pain points.
- Drive strategic investment planning, identifying opportunities for organic growth, AI led innovation, and platform leverage.
- Evangelize the Retail/CPG/Brands verticals’ vision internally and externally, influencing stakeholders across product, engineering, professional services, support, marketing, and sales.
- Shape product lifecycle execution, from ideation to delivery, starting with business values modeling to working in Agile methodologies.
- Conduct competitive analysis across solutions provider landscapes to highlight competitive advantage and assess critical functional gaps.
Requirements
- 5 7 years of product management experience in enterprise software, cloud platforms, or B2B ecosystems.
- 10+ years of experience in Retail, CPG, or Brands industry dynamics, supply chain operations, and digital transformation trends.
- Proven success in leading product strategy across multiple solution areas or portfolios.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to define and execute long term product vision aligned with industry trends and customer needs.
- Market Analysis: Strong skills in competitive research, customer discovery, and market segmentation.
- AI First Mindset: Familiarity with GenAI, predictive AI, and agentic AI concepts, and how they apply to supply chain orchestration and automation.
- Technical Acumen: Solid understanding of cloud technologies, integration platforms (iPaaS, EDI), business process orchestration, and data management.
- Execution Excellence: Experience with business model canvas, roadmap planning/prioritization, Agile/Scrum, and aligned cross functional collaboration.
- Customer Centricity: Passion for solving real world problems through empathetic design and impactful product experiences.
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Your Impact
- This is a high visibility, strategic role focused on shaping the future of supply chain collaboration and orchestration for Retail/CPG/Brands.
- You will lead the development of vertical specific product strategies, working across OpenText’s Business Network portfolio to deliver AI first, cloud native solutions.
- You’ll be responsible for defining and driving product line vision, growth and investment strategy as well as execution across multiple solution sets.
What The Role Offers
- Own the vertical strategy for Retail/CPG/Brands verticals across multiple product lines, aligning with and leveraging Business Network’s broader portfolio and platform capabilities.
- Engage directly with customers on site and at industry forums, conferences, and webinars to express thought leadership and assess industry challenges and opportunities.
- Create, implement and manage Go to Market strategies for the Retail, CPG and Brands industries and serve as the Product Advocate for Sales, Solutions Consulting and Marketing teams.
- Partner and collaborate with core product managers and cross functional teams to define and deliver solutions that address industry specific pain points such as digital twin integration, supplier onboarding, and compliance.
- Drive strategic investment planning, identifying opportunities for organic growth, AI led innovation, and platform leverage.
- Evangelize the Retail/CPG/Brands verticals’ vision internally and externally, influencing stakeholders across product, engineering, professional services, support, marketing, and sales.
- Shape product lifecycle execution, from ideation to delivery, starting with business values modeling to working in Agile methodologies to deliver.
- Conduct competitive analysis across solutions provider landscapes with the aim to highlight Business Network’s inherent competitive advantage and assess critical functional gaps that may need to be filled.
What You Need To Succeed
- 5 7 years of product management experience in enterprise software, cloud platforms, or B2B ecosystems.
- 10+ years of experience in Retail, CPG, or Brands industry dynamics, supply chain operations, and digital transformation trends.
- Proven success in leading product strategy across multiple solution areas or portfolios.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to define and execute long term product vision aligned with industry trends and customer needs.
- Market Analysis: Strong skills in competitive research, customer discovery, and market segmentation.
- AI First Mindset: Familiarity with GenAI, predictive AI, and agentic AI concepts, and how they apply to supply chain orchestration and automation.
- Technical Acumen: Solid understanding of cloud technologies, integration platforms (iPaaS, EDI), business process orchestration, and data management.
- Execution Excellence: Experience with business model canvas, roadmap planning/prioritization, Agile/Scrum, and aligned cross functional collaboration.
- Customer Centricity: Passion for solving real world problems through empathetic design and impactful product experiences.
One Last Thing
- At OpenText, we don’t just build software, we build solutions that matter.
- We’re a global community driven by trust, character, and purpose.
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