Lead Product Specialist
retail_hospitality › Product Specialty · S5 — S5 — Principal Support Specialist · Support
An experienced individual contributor who provides expert product knowledge and guidance within a dedicated product category in a retail store.
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What this role is
An experienced individual contributor who provides expert product knowledge and guidance within a dedicated product category in a retail store. At the Principal Support Specialist (S5) level, the role owns function-wide support practice, program-level and systemic support problems, and drives support strategy across the function. Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice.
What this level does
- Create new product-operations procedures and documentation standards for a specialty area (e.g., product launch operations or technical support operations) and roll them out across the store team
- Resolve the most complex product-handling and cross-functional coordination issues, developing techniques others then adopt
- Serve as the store's product-specialty subject expert, providing guidance to peers and acting as working lead/facilitator on complex launch and lifecycle initiatives
- Advise store leadership on product-operations improvements, feeding process and tooling recommendations that shape how product work is run
- Knowledge applied
- Highly skilled in a product-operations specialty (e.g., launch or technical support operations); contributes to the creation of new procedures and standards within it.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Develops concepts and techniques and resolves the most complex product-handling and coordination issues.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Acts as working lead/facilitator, provides peer guidance, and advises store leadership on product-operations improvements.
- Typical experience
- 6+ yrs; expert in the product-specialty field.
Skills at this level
- Store Product Equipment Operation
- — Operates store product-handling equipment — price guns, taggers and tape dispensers — to tag, price and prepare merchandise accurately and efficiently.
- Merchandise Assessment
- — Recognizes merchandise styles, quality and condition and applies the correct pricing, judging exceptions and damaged-stock cases against store procedure.
- Product Documentation
- — Creates and maintains product documentation — user manuals, product specifications, FAQ documents and sales collateral — keeping versions current for store and sales use.
- Product Inquiry Handling
- — Fields product inquiries and post-sales support requests, using existing references for routine cases and applying judgment on non-routine ones, escalating or resolving as appropriate.
- Product Launch Coordination
- — Coordinates the store-side tasks of a product launch or promotion — staging collateral, sequencing tasks and aligning timing across development, marketing, sales and customer service.
- Cross-Department Coordination
- — Acts as the operational bridge between development, marketing, sales and customer service so product goals and tasks stay aligned across teams.
- Product Training Delivery
- — Develops and delivers product training to sales and customer-service teams so they can accurately represent product features and handling.
- Product Performance Analysis
- — Performs basic analysis of product performance metrics and market research to inform how items are positioned and merchandised in the store.
- Customer Feedback Relay
- — Gathers and consolidates customer feedback on products and relays it to product development to inform improvements.
- Product Procedure Development
- — Adapts and creates product-operations procedures and documentation standards for a specialty area, rolling them out and guiding peers on their use.
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