Ulta Beauty is expanding its digital capabilities and re-designing existing locations with the latest design and technological advancements for heightened guest experiences. The Senior Product Owner (Sr. PO) for Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is responsible for translating retail supply chain and planning strategy into executable product delivery, ensuring that S&OP capabilities enable accurate forecasting, balanced demand and supply, and aligned financial outcomes.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, or product management within a retail or supply chain technology environment.
- Strong hands-on experience supporting S&OP, demand planning, supply planning, or inventory planning processes.
- Proven ability to write clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria for complex planning workflows.
- Experience working in agile delivery models (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe).
- Experience with retail planning platforms (e.g., o9, Blue Yonder, or similar).
- Strong understanding of retail financial planning, forecasting, and inventory performance metrics.
- Experience working with data engineering, analytics, or AI/ML-driven forecasting solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage the S&OP product backlog, ensuring alignment to product strategy, business outcomes, and roadmap priorities.
- Translate business needs into well-defined epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
- Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and prioritization activities to maximize value delivery.
- Partner with Supply Chain, Merchandising, Inventory Planning, and Finance teams to enable end-to-end S&OP processes, including demand planning, supply planning, capacity planning, store replenishment, and financial reconciliation.
- Ensure solutions support key S&OP cycles such as monthly planning, executive reviews, and exception management.
- Ensure S&OP capabilities leverage high-quality data, integrated systems, and analytics to support accurate and timely decision-making.
- Collaborate with data, analytics, and platform teams to define requirements for forecasts, KPIs, dashboards, and alerts.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the agile & business teams on S&OP-related requirements and decisions.
- Drive adoption of best-in-class retail planning practices, including scenario modeling, what-if analysis, and cross-functional alignment.
- Act as a trusted partner to business stakeholders, balancing competing priorities across demand, supply, and financial objectives.
- Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to product leadership and business partners.
