Manager, Product Information

Farnell, part of Avnet, is currently recruiting for the role of Manager, Product Information, to join our growing Product Data & Technical Content Team.  We are one of the world’s leading brands in high-service electronics components and technology products distribution. This is a great opportunity to join one of the fastest growing areas of our business!

Job Summary:

THIS IS A FLEXIBLE, HYBRID WORKING ROLE, GIVING YOU THE WORK LIFE BALANCE TO WORK FROM HOME AND MANAGE YOUR OWN DIARY IN REGARDS TO ON-SITE OFFICE TIME IN LEEDS

What's in it for you:

Along with offering a competitive salary package, we also offer:

• A supportive team environment where everyone really is working toward the same goal.
• A strong open door policy within management
• An environment where you will be given the tools and opportunities to further your career
• Pension scheme
• Private Medical cover
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with option to buy additional holiday
• FREE Onsite Parking
• Flexible home working
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Reward schemes

What you'll be doing:

Lead a globally dispersed data stewards team in administrating and developing the business’ product data management tools, strategy, and owned technical data to support sales and ecommerce goals.

Job Specifications:

• Manage a globally dispersed data stewards team ensuring that staff are engaged, performing to SLA expectations, and developing in their roles.
• Manage the Product Data Management tools and systems including their maintenance and development, to support the creation, storage, cleaning and retrieval of product technical data.
• Act as subject matter expert in technical infrastructure and architecture for PIM tools; keeping up to date with suppliers, best practices, market trends. Partner with GIS, IT and BI technical teams
• Recommend and implement strategies that simplify, standardize, and enable sharing, syndication and automation to the end-goal of minimizing total effort to maintain product data
• Liaise closely with Product Data Production teams to resolve errors in technical data, support data collection and curation, and support business programs/projects.
• Participate as a subject matter expert in key business programs involving product data content and toolkits.
• Typically 4+ years including 2+ years of supervisory experience

Distinguishing Characteristics:

Experience with PIM, MDM and DAM tools such as Informatica MDM, Product 360, IDQ, Step Stibo, IBM Initiate, SAP MDG, Riversand, Enterwork Pimcore.

Furthermore:

• Manages experienced, professional employees located local and globally. Ability to work across geographical & cultural boundaries.
• Interprets and administers policies, processes and procedures that affect direct reports and the workflow of the team/department. Adapts departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges.
• Experience in product data management and governance including the management of product data architecture, processes, lifecycles, systems and tools.
• Assignments are defined in the form of objectives. Decisions are guided by policies, procedures, business plans and independent judgment.
• Collaborates with team, peer managers and cross functional groups. Participates are meetings with external vendors.
• Decisions may have impact on work processes and outcomes. Erroneous decisions or recommendations may result in serious delays and considerable expenditures of additional time, people and resources.

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