Product Data Specialist

Product Data Specialist

Cleveland Steel Container, an Employee Owned and World Class Steel Pail Manufacturing company, is seeking an enthusiastic, responsible, and customer-oriented individual that has a positive attitude and shares the values of our company culture, which is built around teamwork, family, honest communication and producing desirable results for our Hudson, OH corporate office.

Industry leading benefit program that includes low employee premiums for medical insurance, unmatched retirement programs as an employee owner. Dental, vision, life and disability insurances. New employees are eligible for 15 days of paid vacation per calendar year and 11 paid company holidays.

Function: The Product Data Specialist is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of product information across our business systems. This position serves as the business-side owner of product data quality and supports the company's long-term Master Data Management (MDM) strategy by maintaining, enriching, and validating product information within the Product Information Management (PIM) system. This role collaborates closely with IT, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Supplier Partners to align business requirements, system data fields, and digital assets. The Product Data Specialist will play a key role in bridging business needs with technical execution, ensuring product information is fit for use across quoting, sourcing, sales, and e-commerce channels.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the IT team on data mapping, governance, and system connectivity.
• Supply Chain teams to capture and maintain supplier product catalogs, specifications, and digital assets.
• Marketing and E-Commerce teams to ensure customer-facing product information is complete, accurate, and current.
• Engineering to ensure completeness of technical digital assets are maintained
• Finance and Operations stakeholders for consistency of product identifiers, units of measure, and hierarchy alignment.

Maintain Product Information Accuracy

• Administer and update product attributes, specifications, and digital assets within the PIM (Salsify) and ERP environments.
• Validate supplier-provided data for accuracy, completeness, and format consistency.
• Monitor and report data completeness using dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Support the MDM Journey
• Act as the business representative in data governance and MDM discussions.
• Collaborate with IT to define and understand how data fields map between systems (ERP, PIM, CRM, e-commerce).
• Identify and document gaps or misalignments in data flows and escalate corrective actions as needed.
• Monitor Cross-System Data Integrity
• Maintain awareness of how product data is created, transformed, and used across the business.
• Partner with IT on data structure requirements, testing, and validation during integration projects.
• Support controlled change management processes for product-related data updates.
• Coordinate supplier data collection and onboarding for new or revised products. Work with suppliers to standardize digital catalog information and ensure alignment with Pipeline's PIM data model.
• Develop and publish regular reports on data health, completeness, and progress against governance standards.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for product information standards and data usage.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Data Management, or related discipline.
• 3-5 years of experience in product information, data management, or supply chain systems administration within a distribution (preferred) or manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of Product Information Management (PIM) tools such as Salsify or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of data quality principles, data structures, and cross-system data mapping.
• Experience with ERP and e-commerce data flows preferred.

Ability to:

• Lead by influence and collaborate effectively across teams and levels in the organization
• Detail-oriented with the ability to identify data inconsistencies and drive corrective actions.
• Comfortable collaborating with IT teams, understanding data flows without directly managing integrations.
• Proficient in Excel or BI tools for data analysis and reporting.
• Excellent communication skills — able to translate business needs into clear data requirements.

Impact: This position is foundational to our digital transformation and data modernization strategy. By establishing reliable, complete, and consistent product data, the Product Data Steward ensures confidence in business decisions, supplier collaboration, and customer-facing content — creating a scalable foundation for future MDM, automation, and e-commerce growth.

Cleveland Steel Container was founded in 1963 to provide customers with a dependable steel pail. Currently, we have four pail plants located strategically throughout the United States to support our customers. At our Streetsboro facility, we have a metal stamping plant to provide component parts for our pails. Our goal is to continuously provide our customers with quality pails through excellent service at an outstanding value. Finally, we make good pails and deliver them on time!

Cleveland Steel Container offers a competitive salary based on commensurate experience and a comprehensive benefits program that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, 401k with company contribution, profit sharing, paid holidays and vacations, life insurance and short & long-term disability coverages along with an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

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