Product Owner (AI Trade Planning), Digital Venture

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Lead the strategy and development of AI-driven trade planning tools, collaborating across teams to enhance e-commerce capabilities and automate campaign workflows.

The Product Owner – AI Trade Planning will be responsible for defining and delivering products that automate campaign and assortment planning. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in machine learning concepts, data-driven decision-making, and product strategy, coupled with a deep understanding of e-commerce merchandising and campaign workflows.

This role requires a unique blend of business acumen and technical understanding - someone who can work with campaign planners and data scientists to build tools to automate manual campaign setup with intelligent automation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Product Strategy & Vision
    • Define the roadmap for AI/ML-based trade planning and campaign automation tools
    • Translate campaign team workflows into scalable, data-driven systems for SKU and collection selection
    • Identify and prioritize opportunities for automation and personalization using machine learning

  • Collaboration & Execution
    • Partner with data science, engineering, and campaign teams to design, test, and deploy AI-based solutions for trade planning.
    • Work with AI/ML teams to conceptualize models that optimize product inclusion, campaign timing, and personalization.
    • Collaborate with marketing, merchandising, and analytics stakeholders to align system outputs with business goals.

  • Product Design & Delivery
    • Define product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for automation tools.
    • Oversee prototype development, pilot programs, and scaling of ML-driven trade planning systems.
    • Evaluate and iterate on product performance using measurable success metrics (e.g., revenue uplift, manual effort reduction, personalization accuracy).

  • Data & Insights
    • Leverage historical campaign data, user behavior, and product performance to inform model design and prioritization.
    • Analyze results and create data-driven business presentations for leadership review.
    • Serve as the business liaison for AI/ML initiatives - interpreting model outcomes for non-technical stakeholders.

  • Change Management
    • Drive adoption of AI-led trade planning among campaign teams through clear communication, documentation, and training.
    • Work cross-functionally to ensure smooth integration of AI solutions into existing workflows and planning cycles.

Requirements

Education:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or similar quantitative discipline.

Experience:

  • 3 - 6 years of experience in Product Management, Data Product Management, or E-commerce Operations
  • Prior experience working on AI/ML-enabled products, personalization, or recommendation systems is highly desirable.
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Campaign planning, merchandising, or trade promotions in e-commerce
    • ML concepts such as clustering, classification, ranking, and recommendation engines (familiarity, not coding-level expertise)
    • Data analytics tools (SQL, Mixpanel, Power BI, or equivalent)

Skills:

  • Ability to translate complex technical ideas into practical business applications.
  • Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
  • Proficiency in preparing structured, high-quality business presentations.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.
  • Comfortable working with data scientists, engineers, and marketing stakeholders simultaneously.

Preferred Attributes

  • Prior experience in retail or e-commerce product management.
  • Exposure to campaign automation, personalization engines, or AI recommendation systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver products that reduced manual workflows through automation.
  • Curiosity and aptitude for learning new AI tools and technologies.

Benefits

Health Insurance – At Makro PRO, we care about your health! Group insurance from a top insurance company is included in your benefits—OPD, IPD, Emergency OPD

Provident Fund – Makro PRO cares about your long-term plan! We offer 3% provident fund.

Year-end bonus – We include variable and performance bonus for our employees.

Gym Facilities – Our Head office has a fitness center, yoga room, and recreational space. Enjoy Bangkok scenery and work your body!

Attractive Vacations days – Enjoy our attractive annual leave. Let’s say the minimum is 16 days!

No overtime – We work 5 days a week with. We set our own goals and deadlines.

Free car parking space – No more stress or extra cost if you drive to work. We offer free parking space for our employees.

Best Culture

  • Clear focus.
  • Diverse Workplace (Our members are from around the world!)
  • Thai and Non-Thai are both welcome!
  • Non-hierarchical and agile environment
  • Growth opportunity and career path

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Health Insurance – At Makro PRO, we care about your health! Group insurance from a top insurance company is included in your benefits—OPD, IPD, Emergency OPD
  • 3% provident fund: Provident Fund – Makro PRO cares about your long-term plan! We offer 3% provident fund.

MakroPRO is an exciting new digital venture by the iconic Makro. Our proud purpose is to build a technology platform that will help make business possible for restaurant owners, hotels, and independent retailers, and open the door for sellers by bringing together the best talent to transform the B2B marketplace ecosystem in Southeast Asia Curious. Growth-mindset. User-obsessed. We search for talented people who each bring unique skills and behaviours that will help us build Southeast Asia’s next unicorn. Whether you’re in tech, marketing, finance or client/seller-facing roles, our people bring relentless passion, fast learning and a culture of innovation to every dimension of their work. Every member of our team is open to new perspectives, willing to navigate uncertainty and brings humility and radical candour to the table at all times We are bold, energetic, and thoughtful – grounded in our purpose and family culture, while driven by our passion for digital innovation. Our company is 70% technology, 20% retail, 10% logistics, and 100% heart. Every day, we use leading-edge technologies to understand and help food retailers, hotels, restaurants, caterers, and other businesses big and small navigate supply chain complexities and achieve their goals But the best technology needs to be driven by passionate talent. Aspiring professionals who share our belief in collaboration, diversity, and excellence – those willing to think big, redefine what’s possible, and put customers at the center of their work In return, our commitment to you is to offer a workplace like no other, where ideas can thrive and individuals can be themselves, where colleagues support each other and talent is fairly rewarded, where growth and learning opportunities are the norm not the exception, and where your career can reach new heights

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