PIM Data Manager

AnaVation LLC; North East; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading electrical wholesaler in the United Kingdom is seeking a PIM Data Manager to oversee the lifecycle of product data for around 50,000 items. The role involves leading a specialist team, improving processes, and ensuring data accuracy across digital channels. Candidates should have experience managing PIM systems and a strong leadership background. This position offers a competitive salary, bonuses, and a comprehensive wellbeing platform. Take the chance to modernize technology and shape the future!

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Annual IT Bonus scheme

Company Pension Scheme

Champion Health wellbeing platform

Learning & Development platform

Employee Discount Platform

Free use of private gym

Qualifications

• Experience leading product data or PIM teams in retail or wholesale environments.
• Confirmed experience managing a PIM system.
• Strong leadership and data governance skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of product data across a growing catalogue.
• Lead and develop a product data and photography team.
• Focus on improving processes and enhancing data quality.

Skills

Leadership experience in product data or PIM teams

Managing a PIM system

Product classification and data governance

Confidence in vendor collaboration

Inquisitive and improvement-driven mindset

Comfort influencing change

Tools

STEP or similar enterprise PIM platforms

Job description

Join one of the UK’s largest electrical wholesalers as we reimagine our technology for the digital age. We’re modernising our legacy systems and building new platforms powered by AWS and AI — and we need creative minds to help us shape the future!

What You’ll Do:

This role owns the end-to-end lifecycle of product data across a large and growing catalogue of ~50,000 products. You’ll lead a specialist team responsible for ensuring product data is accurate, consistent, well-governed and ready for publication across digital channels like our website.

As PIM Data Manager, you’ll lead and develop a specialist product data and photography team, owning the end-to-end creation, enrichment and governance of product data at scale. Alongside day-to-day leadership, you’ll focus on improving processes, challenging how things are done, and getting more from our PIM platform by working closely with vendors and stakeholders. You’ll also explore how emerging technology can be applied sensibly to improve efficiency, data quality and consistency across the product catalogue.

Your Skills & Experience:

• You’ll bring experience leading product data or PIM teams in a retail, wholesale or complex product environment, ideally with large catalogues.
• Proven experience managing a PIM system (STEP or similar enterprise PIM platforms)
• Strong people leadership experience
• A solid understanding of product classification, attributes, enrichment and data governance
• Experience owning end-to-end product data processes, not just maintaining them
• Confidence working with vendors, raising tickets, and challenging how systems are configured and used
• An inquisitive, improvement-driven mindset — you naturally question “can this be done better?”
• You don’t need to be the most technical person in the room, but you do need to be curious, confident, and comfortable influencing change.

Beneficial Experience

• Exposure to photography or digital asset workflows
• Experience operating alongside or through ERP change or integration programmes
• Background in electrical, trade, wholesale or high-SKU retail environments
• Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who can learn systems quickly and bring structure, challenge and clarity to how product data is managed.

Package:

• Competitive Salary
• Annual IT Bonus scheme
• Company Pension Scheme
• Champion Health – a comprehensive physical, mental & financial wellbeing platform, offering bespoke content on all aspects of wellbeing & life including recipes, workouts, blogs and loads of other content for you.
• Light Up Learning - Our Learning & Development platform
• MySavings - Employee Discount Platform
• Free use of the state-of-the-art private gym at our IT Headquarters

About Us:

Founded in 1951 in Kenilworth, UK, City Electrical Factors (CEF) has grown into a world-leading electrical wholesale and manufacturing business with over 400 branches across the UK and a strong presence in the USA, Canada, Spain and Australia.

Our IT and Data teams are driving the next chapter of our journey… Re-engineering legacy systems, adopting modern cloud technologies and exploring AI to deliver faster, smarter and more connected customer experiences.

We’re based just outside Durham in our award-winning IT & Marketing office, Janet Nash House, which can be found here!

Our Mission:

City is a world leading electrical wholesale and manufacturing business providing electrical products to the industry. We in IT are delivering value to our business and our customers with the implementation of packaged software and bespoke engineering for the digital age using AWS serverless technology. We need talented and creative people across all areas to join us in rearchitecting our forward thinking business over the next few years and beyond as we evolve.

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