Product Manager - Ecommerce Categories (f/m/d)

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<h1><strong>Product Manager - Categories (f/m/d)</strong></h1> <p><strong>Location:</strong> Paris, France</p> <p><strong>Domain:</strong> E-Commerce Solutions — Navigate &amp; Categories</p> <h3><strong>ABOUT DECATHLON &amp; THE E-COMMERCE DOMAIN</strong></h3> <p>Decathlon is accelerating its digital transformation with the mission of becoming <strong>the sports digital platform</strong> that allows customers to discover our universe through local, sport-centered, and omnichannel experiences.</p> <p><strong>Our Mission:</strong> Bring people together through sport to make wellbeing accessible for all.&nbsp;</p> <p>By joining this scope, you will work within the <strong>E-Commerce Solutions</strong> domain. Our teams build and transform the global e-commerce navigation, catalog treeviews, and backend categorization engines aiming to allows users to effortlessly discover and access Decathlon’s complete offering of products, services, and information</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>JOIN THE CATEGORIES SQUAD</strong></h3> <p>Reporting to the <strong>Group Product Manager (E-Commerce / Navigate)</strong>, you will take ownership of the <strong>Categories</strong> squad. You will work alongside a dedicated engineering squad (Tech Lead, Senior Software Engineers), and collaborate closely with UX Researchers, Product Designers, Data Analysts, Sports Digital Merchandisers, and local Country E-Commerce teams).</p> <p><strong>Product Vision:</strong> Empowering discovery through intelligent, scalable navigation. We build an intuitive, automated, and personalized browsing journey so every customer finds what they need, want, and desire faster.</p> <p>Drive global conversion and incremental revenue by transforming fragmented local treeviews into a unified, high-performing Core Navigation across web and mobile platforms.</p> <h3><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></h3> <h4><strong>Product Vision &amp; Strategy</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the <strong>Categories &amp; Core Navigation</strong> ecosystem.</li> <li>Own and arbitrate key product streams across <strong>Core Navigation</strong> (standardizing category trees globally) and <strong>SKU-Level Categorization Engines</strong> (such as our streaming engine <em>Tesseract</em>).</li> <li>Align stakeholders across central sports teams, global digital merchandising, and local country teams around shared treeview operating models.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Discovery &amp; Governance</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Continuously identify user, SEO, and market opportunities through data analysis, user testing, and card-sorting studies.</li> <li>Establish a continuous and consistent A/B testing process to refine business convictions and identify top growth opportunities</li> <li>Balance global standardization with local market flexibility, ensuring smooth migration from local catalog treeviews to global <strong>Core Trees</strong>.</li> <li>Establish clear decision-making frameworks and SLAs for global taxonomy, SEO content guidance, and category creation governance.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Delivery &amp; Technical Alignment</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Lead agile product delivery in close partnership with the Engineering Lead and squad members.</li> <li>Prioritize and mature the team’s backlog (epics, user stories) to support multi-level export feed pipelines, batch orchestration tooling, and taxonomy rules execution.</li> <li>Oversee key migration milestones for countries adopting the Core Navigation framework across desktop and mobile.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Data &amp; Performance</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Define and track success metrics across navigation channels, including <strong>PDP Reach Rate, Revenue per Session, Menu Usage CTR</strong>, and <strong>Category-Level Conversion</strong>.</li> <li>Leverage data analytics to streamline category performance, eliminating inactive categories and optimizing taxonomy filters.</li> <li>Arbitrate and prioritize backlog based o

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