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Job Description

Job Description

Pay Rate Range: $   45.45 - 53.03/hr.

Job Description:
Deep functional knowledge of PIM/PXM and the end-to-end retail product lifecycle: supplier/item onboarding, product and variant setup, SKU/UPC relationships, enrichment, attribution, validation, approval, syndication, and downstream publishing.
Hands-on experience defining product hierarchies, taxonomies, categories, attributes, reference data, business rules, data-quality controls, workflow states, stewardship, and governance.
Strong retail and digital-merchandising understanding, including PDP content, imagery and digital assets, navigation, search/discovery attributes, marketplace or vendor content, and omnichannel product readiness.
Ability to lead discovery workshops, document current-state and future-state processes, identify gaps, define personas and journeys, and translate requirements into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process/data models.
Experience with PIM/PXM platforms or product-catalog ecosystems such as STIBO STEP, Salsify, Syndigo, Akeneo, Informatica PIM, in-house PIM solutions, and DAM/CMS integrations.
Experience collaborating with UX, architecture, development, data, integration, QE, security, SRE/operations, business SMEs, and product owners in Agile delivery.
Excellent communication, workshop facilitation, analytical thinking, documentation, stakeholder management, and decision-driving skills.

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:
• Deep functional knowledge of PIM/PXM and the end-to-end retail product lifecycle: supplier/item onboarding, product and variant setup, SKU/UPC relationships, enrichment, attribution, validation, approval, syndication, and downstream publishing.
• Hands-on experience defining product hierarchies, taxonomies, categories, attributes, reference data, business rules, data-quality controls, workflow states, stewardship, and governance.
• Strong retail and digital-merchandising understanding, including PDP content, imagery and digital assets, navigation, search/discovery attributes, marketplace or vendor content, and omnichannel product readiness.
• Ability to lead discovery workshops, document current-state and future-state processes, identify gaps, define personas and journeys, and translate requirements into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process/data models.
• Experience with PIM/PXM platforms or product-catalog ecosystems such as STIBO STEP, Salsify, Syndigo, Akeneo, Informatica PIM, in-house PIM solutions, and DAM/CMS integrations.
• Working knowledge of APIs, events, queues, batch/ETL, data migration, reconciliation, error handling, auditability, and integration patterns across upstream and downstream retail systems.
• Experience collaborating with UX, architecture, development, data, integration, QE, security, SRE/operations, business SMEs, and product owners in Agile delivery.
• Excellent communication, workshop facilitation, analytical thinking, documentation, stakeholder management, and decision-driving skills.

Roles & Responsibilities:
•Act as the PIM/PXM domain lead for assigned workstreams and provide functional direction across discovery, design, build, testing, migration, and rollout.
•Lead workshops with merchants, site-merchandising teams, product owners, operations, and technology SMEs to validate pain points, business rules, controls, exceptions, and target outcomes.
•Define future-state capabilities for product onboarding, item setup, enrichment, attribution, taxonomy/navigation, PDP management, workflow/approvals, data quality, governance, and event-driven publishing.
•Create and maintain functional artefacts including capability maps, process flows, domain/data definitions, user journeys, personas, requirement traceability, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and decision logs.
•Partner with solution and data architects to align functional requirements with domain boundaries, data models, APIs, events, integrations, migration, security, and audit requirements.
•Perform fit-gap analysis across custom-build and product-platform options; document configuration, customization, integration, data, operating-model, and adoption implications.
•Support backlog prioritization and MVP/release definition using business value, dependency, risk, data readiness, user impact, and operational-readiness criteria.
•Define data-quality rules, validation thresholds, ownership/stewardship, exception workflows, reconciliation, lineage, and operational controls for product information.
•Collaborate with UX teams on intuitive merchant and administrator experiences, including bulk operations, saved queries, dashboards, exception handling, and productivity improvements.
•Support test strategy and execution by reviewing scenarios, test data, traceability, defect triage, end-to-end flows, UAT readiness, and business acceptance.
•Support product-data migration and cutover planning, including mapping, cleansing, deduplication, transformation, reconciliation, trial runs, coexistence, and rollback considerations.
•Provide functional input to solution demonstrations, POCs, estimation, risks and assumptions, change requests, training material, operating procedures, and transition-to-support plans.
•Identify automation and AI opportunities while ensuring explainability, review controls, data protection, measurable value, and safe human oversight.
•Communicate status, functional decisions, dependencies, risks, and recommendations clearly to business and technology stakeholders.

Generic Managerial Skills:
• Strong stakeholder management with business leadership, product owners, architects, delivery teams, and vendor/product teams.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and drive outcome-based execution across multiple workstreams and dependencies.
• Excellent communication skills for executive updates, steering committee materials, status reporting, and customer-facing discussions.
• Strong risk, issue, dependency, scope, and change-control management discipline.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams across onsite/offshore models.
• Ability to balance delivery execution with strategic roadmap thinking and proposal/business case inputs.
• Strong facilitation skills for workshops, backlog grooming, release planning, milestone reviews, and decision forums.

Competencies: 10 years experience required
Project Management

Skills:CategoryNameRequiredImportanceExperienceSkillCategoryTest1_MNProject ManagementYes1>7 years