City Electrical Factors

PIM Data Manager

City Electrical Factors  •  Durham, NC (Onsite)  •  5 months ago
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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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City Electrical Factors

About City Electrical Factors

City Electrical Factors Ltd is a private limited company established in 1951. We are the United Kingdom’s leading Electrical Wholesale Network with almost twice as many distribution outlets as our nearest competitor.

Our group of electrical companies not only extends throughout the United Kingdom but also North America, the Middle East, and now Australia.

Our business has been built on service to our customers and at City Electrical Factors we believe your problems and challenges are our problems and challenges and our duty is to find solutions to them.

In order to provide the best possible service we have developed a highly responsive and motivated organisation that can adapt readily to each individual customer’s needs and requirements.

We believe in offering each of our customers the same superior quality of service and products.

Our IT systems have been developed “In House” so that we can respond to any order whether large or small and track that order from receipt to delivery.

Our team of professional delivery drivers then deliver the goods, when you want it and where you want it, this service is free and there are no minimum charges.

We are partners in our customers’ development and in everything we do our aim is to put the customer first and look to exceed their expectations.

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Industry
Wholesale & Distribution
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
, GB
Year Founded
1951
Website
cef.co.uk
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