Product Manager – Sport Activities

Mission

The CIAM (Customer Identity and Access Management) team is seeking a dedicated Product Manager to lead the Sport Activities ecosystem. This role is at the heart of Decathlon’s strategy to transition from a pure retailer to a partner in our customers' sporting lives.

As the PM for this scope, you will oversee a portfolio of four foundational products: Sport Tracking Data (STD), Body (morphology), Favorite Sport and the Partner Hub (integrations with Strava, Garmin, etc.). Your mission is to transform these high-traffic backend services from a maintenance state into a high-performing engine that powers global personalization, the Membership loyalty program and cross-selling across all Decathlon digital platforms.

You will be the architect of how we capture, enrich, and utilize sporting data to create a fluid, data-driven customer journey.

Key Responsibilities

1. Co-design and Product Animation (Agile)

• Animate User Needs: Animate the expression of user needs within the product team.
• Backlog & User Stories: Co-write the user stories and maintain the backlog of new features.
• Prioritization: Co-prioritize new features, knowing how to "say no" to keep the team focused on the essentials.
• Acceptance Criteria: Define the acceptance criteria for new features.

2. Delivery and Product Quality

• Validation & Compliance: Validate and verify the compliance of features with user needs.
• Impact & Satisfaction: Measure the impact of product enhancements on users satisfaction.
• Adoption: Make the product known and develop its use (the "sell it").
• Technical Excellence: Contribute to the team effort to deliver a high-quality product that is maintainable, scalable, and reliable in production.

3. Collaboration and Ecosystem

• Privileged Interface: Be the privileged interface between users and the technical team.
• Agile Ceremonies: Help with collaboration within the team by leading agile ceremonies.
• Transversal Collaboration: Work closely with the other CIAM product teams as well as with the Sports Experience teams and Connected Sport Products to collaboratively define priorities and impact. Easily collaborate with Tech, Data, Support and Design teams to improve the product.

4. Data-Driven Steering: Backend Instrumentation & Optimization

• Observability: Design and maintain robust logging and event tracking to monitor the performances. Identify system bottlenecks and latency issues within the communication delivery.
• System Performance & Alignment: Partner with Tech leads, Support and Data team as well as with other product people in charge of the end-user experiences to translate business KPIs into high-performance backend requirements, ensuring that technical implementations are both scalable and measurable.
• Logic Experimentation: Architect and execute server-side A/B tests to validate changes in verification workflows

Profile Sought

Product & Technical Expertise

• Experience: At least one year of Product Management or Product Owner experience in a B2C digital environment, ideally with a focus on APIs or data-heavy products.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to navigate and lead at the intersection of multiple cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and effective collaboration across the organization.
• Vision & Strategy: Proven ability to define a clear product path forward and develop a long-term strategy that goes beyond simple maintenance to deliver significant new value.
• Business Acumen: A strong focus on the business impact of products, with the ability to balance technical requirements with broader commercial goals and KPIs.
• Technical Literacy: Strong understanding of API design, Webhooks, and Kafka. You should be comfortable discussing technical constraints with engineers.
• Legacy Management: Experience or a strong interest in managing technical migrations and modernizing backend infrastructure.
• Methodology: Proficient in Agile/Scrum and capable of maintaining a clean, prioritized backlog.

Soft Skills

• Investigative Mindset: A "detective" approach to uncovering how data moves through a global organization.
• Communication: Ability to synthesize complex technical topics into simple, persuasive narratives for diverse stakeholders in order to influence and convince them.
• Resilience: Comfortable managing high-traffic products where stability and performance are critical.
• English: Fluent English is mandatory.

Assets (Nice to have)

• Passion for Sport: A personal interest in sport tracking and an understanding of why biometric and performance data matter to athletes.
• Data Science Interest: Familiarity with how behavioral data fuels personalization and recommendation engines.

🚀 The Context

Decathlon is accelerating its global expansion through the Franchise model. To support our partners worldwide (stores & back-office), we are building a dedicated Data squad. You will join a "start-up within the group" environment. You will be the key bridge between Decathlon's massive internal data ecosystem and our external partners.

🎯 The Mission

Your goal is threefold:

1. Drive the Franchise Business: Act as the analytical partner for internal teams, providing deep-dive analyses and actionable insights to optimize operations (Stock, Supply, Pricing, etc.).
2. Build & Deliver: Ensure Franchise partners have visibility on their performance (Sales, Stock, KPIs) by providing reliable dashboards.
3. Bridge & Adapt: Collaborate with internal Decathlon business teams to "port" and adapt existing successful data products for the Franchise perimeter.

You are not just building charts; you are building the trust our partners place in Decathlon’s data to manage their business and calculate their royalties.

💼 Key Responsibilities

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          Business Analysis & Insights 

• Decision Support: Actively help business partners take the best decisions regarding stock management, supply chain efficiency, and pricing strategies for the Franchise network.
• Proactive Analytics: Don't just answer questions; dig into the data to identify trends, anomalies, and business opportunities. Translate complex data sets into clear, actionable recommendations.
  
  Data Visualization & Delivery (Tableau)
  
  
• Ownership: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of Tableau dashboards for Franchisees and internal Franchise teams.
• Adaptation Strategy: Work with internal domains (Supply, Retail, Offer) to identify existing dashboards, understand their logic, and duplicate/adapt them for the Franchise context.
• User Experience: Ensure dashboards are readable, actionable, and secure (Row Level Security is key).
  
  Analytics Engineering (dbt & SQL)

• Modeling: You don't wait for data to be ready. You use dbt (on top of Databricks) to build your own marts and business layers from the raw data prepared by the Data Engineer.
• Business Logic: Implement complex business rules (Royalties calculation, Taxable turnover, Margins) directly in the code base, ensuring auditability and version control.
  
  Stakeholder Management & Animation

• Internal Negotiation: Navigate the Decathlon ecosystem to find the right data owners and secure access to source dashboards/datasets.
• Partner Support: Act as the referent for Franchisees regarding Data interpretation. Help them understand their KPIs and gather their feedback to improve our products.
  
  Data Culture

• Promote data-driven decision-making within the Franchise team (Expansion strategy, Partner selection).
• Document business rules and KPIs definitions to create a shared "Franchise Language".

🛠 Technical Environment

• Storage & Compute: Databricks (Lakehouse architecture).
• Transformation: dbt (SQL).
• Visualization: Tableau Software.

👤 Profile We Are Looking For

Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in BI, Data analysis or Analytics Engineering.
• Retail experience is a strong plus (understanding of supply chain, stock rotation, pricing elasticity, etc.).

Hard Skills:

• SQL: Advanced level (Window functions, joins, performance tuning).
• Tableau: Expert level (LODs, Parameters, complex blending, Server management is a plus).
• dbt/Modeling: Good understanding of data modeling (Star Schema) and modern transformation workflows.

Soft Skills:

• Autonomous: You know how to take a vague business request and turn it into a delivered product or a clear analytical answer.
• Business Partner: You speak "Retail" and "Finance" as well as you speak SQL.
• Resourceful: You are not afraid to dig into legacy dashboards to understand how a KPI was calculated 5 years ago.
• Pedagogue: You can explain a data discrepancy to a non-technical franchise owner.
• Language: Fluent English is mandatory (international partners). French is a strong plus.

🎁 Why Join Us?

• Impact: Your work directly impacts the business of our partners and their way of piloting their stores.
• Construction: You arrive at the beginning of the journey. There is still a lot to build, structure, and optimize.

Modern stack : You work on a state-of-the-art modern data stack (Databricks, dbt).

VOTRE ENVIRONNEMENT

• Une équipe projet pluridisciplinaire (architectes IT, développeurs, experts métier, gestionnaires du changement).
• Méthodologies agiles, produit et data-driven pour un maximum d'impact.

CE QUE NOUS VOUS OFFRONS

• 2 jours de télétravail par semaine.
• Matériel fourni en accord avec vos missions et nos engagements 
• Une équipe de projet locale au sein d'un réseau mondial (possibilité de carrière internationale).
• Développement des compétences et accompagnement (diversité des projets, formations, etc.).
• Package de rémunération attractif (participation, bonus, etc.).