As a Manager - Product Data, you will be responsible for implementing the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of new product introduction and product onboarding processes across assigned product categories. You will be accountable for ensuring efficient, scalable onboarding of products, enabling high-quality product data, and supporting strong sales performance, margin expansion, and a best-in-class digital product discovery experience.
Responsibilities:
- Owns and drives the end-to-end new product introduction (NPI) and onboarding intake process for assigned product categories, ensuring clear prioritization, requirements definition, and timely progression of new products into onboarding workflows
- Leads product onboarding initiation activities, including intake, identification of required product information, and alignment on data needs to support validation and enrichment by downstream teams
- Partners cross-functionally (Category Management, Supplier Management, Master Data Management,
- Pricing, Inventory, and Digital teams) to ensure all required inputs, dependencies, and handoffs are clearly defined and executed
- Ensures adherence to established product data standards and onboarding workflows, driving consistency, quality, and compliance across all new product introductions
- Identifies gaps in onboarding inputs and requirements early in the process, proactively collaborating with stakeholders and suppliers to resolve issues that could delay product activation
- Monitors onboarding pipeline progress and intake quality, helping to remove bottlenecks and improve speed-to-market for new products
- Aligns new product introduction priorities with overall assortment strategy, ensuring new products support category growth, customer demand, and financial objectives
- Partners Digital teams to support launch readiness, ensuring newly onboarded products are positioned for activation and visibility
- Communicates priorities, progress, and onboarding status across stakeholders, driving alignment, accountability, and execution against business objectives
- May oversee one or more product assortment or onboarding professionals
- Forms business relationships with key stakeholders, including Wesco’s suppliers and partner teams
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree - Marketing, Sales, IT or related field required; Masters Degree preferred
- 5 years of experience in product onboarding, new product introduction (NPI), product data management, or product assortment roles
- 5 years managing end-to-end product lifecycle processes, including intake, onboarding, and launch execution
- Strong understanding of NPI processes, onboarding workflows, and product data requirements within a complex distribution or multi-channel environment
- Proven ability to prioritize intake, define requirements, and drive execution across multiple product categories
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional execution with Category Management, Supplier Management, MDM, Pricing, Inventory, Supply Chain, and Digital teams
- Ability to define and manage processes, dependencies, and handoffs to ensure timely and accurate product activation
- Experience with product data governance, standards, and quality controls to ensure consistency and compliance
- Strong ability to identify gaps, resolve issues proactively, and mitigate onboarding delays
- Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills with a track record of driving alignment and accountability across stakeholders
- Analytical and results-oriented mindset with experience improving pipeline performance, speed-to-market, and business outcomes through data-driven decisions
- Ability to travel 0% - 25%
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In addition, Wesco offers a benefits program for eligible employees, which may include paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage, and retirement savings plans. Additional details about benefits are available here.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree - Marketing, Sales, IT or related field
- Master's Degree
- 5 years of experience in product onboarding, new product introduction (NPI), product data management, or product assortment roles
- 5 years managing end-to-end product lifecycle processes, including intake, onboarding, and launch execution
- Strong understanding of NPI processes, onboarding workflows, and product data requirements within a complex distribution or multi-channel environment
- Proven ability to prioritize intake, define requirements, and drive execution across multiple product categories
- Experience leading cross-functional execution with Category Management, Supplier Management, MDM, Pricing, Inventory, Supply Chain, and Digital teams
- Ability to define and manage processes, dependencies, and handoffs to ensure timely and accurate product activation
- Experience with product data governance, standards, and quality controls
- Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills
- Analytical and results-oriented mindset with experience improving pipeline performance and speed-to-market through data-driven decisions
- Ability to travel 0% - 25%
WESCO International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests the 401(k) with company match is a relative strong point and is consistently part of the package. Retirement offerings are frequently cited as a solid element within the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests PTO policies are favorable, including self‑managed or generous banks in some roles along with paid holidays. Paid parental leave and related time‑off options add to the perceived strength of leave benefits.
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Flexible Benefits — Feedback suggests employees have meaningful choice through medical plan options with HSA/FSA alongside ancillary programs like EAP, discounts, and supplemental coverages. The breadth of selectable add‑ons supports tailoring benefits to individual needs.
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What We Do
At Wesco, we believe life should run smoothly. As a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, we create a world that you can depend on. Harnessing 100 years of ingenuity and expertise, we increase profitability, improve productivity and mitigate risk for approximately 150,000 customers worldwide. With nearly 1.5 million products and locations in more than 50 countries, Wesco is your partner in progress. Our company’s greatest asset is our people. From our corporate and field offices to our distribution sites, Wesco employs over 20,000 professionals around the globe. We’re committed to fostering diversity and inclusion across our workforce by embracing the unique perspectives, authenticity, and individuality our team members contribute to the company. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Wesco is a publicly traded (NYSE: WCC) FORTUNE 500® company with 2022 net sales of $21.4 billion.





