Director, Catalog Operations & PIM (Remote Canada or US)

<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Director, Catalog Operations & PIM <br><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Location:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> Remote (Canada or US)<br><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">About TOOLBX:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">TOOLBX is building the digital operating platform for lumber and building material dealers. Our platform helps independent building suppliers sell online, manage customer portals, accept payments, streamline order-to-cash workflows, and better serve their contractor customers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">As TOOLBX scales across eCommerce, payments, customer portals, and AI-enabled workflows, high-quality product and catalog data is becoming a core part of our platform. We are looking for a hands-on catalog and PIM leader to help build the operating system that allows our customers to launch, maintain, and improve their digital catalogs at scale.<br><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">The Opportunity:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">We are hiring a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Director, Catalog Operations & PIM</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt"> to own TOOLBX’s catalog operations, product data, and PIM strategy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">This is not a traditional retail merchandising role. This is a hands-on “doer” operating role for someone who can build scalable catalog processes, improve product data quality, manage a small team, and use AI and automation to reduce manual work.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">The ideal candidate is a builder/operator who is comfortable working with messy product data, creating processes from ambiguity, implementing PIM best practices, and partnering with Product and Engineering to improve internal tooling and automation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">This person must be highly capable with AI tools and have demonstrated use of AI to improve catalog enrichment, categorization, data cleanup, workflow automation, QA, and team productivity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">The role will also support approximately 4–5 hours per week of customer-facing catalog discussions, typically alongside Onboarding or Customer Success. These conversations may include walking dealers through their catalog, identifying data gaps, explaining product data requirements, and sharing best practices and helping customers understand what is required for a successful digital launch.<br><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold">Key Responsibilities:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Catalog Operations & Process</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Own the end-to-end catalog operations process for new and existing TOOLBX customers.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Build scalable workflows for product data intake, cleanup, enrichment, mapping, categorization, QA, and maintenance.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Develop SOPs, QA checklists, SLAs, templates, and playbooks for the catalog operations team.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Identify bottlenecks in the current catalog onboarding process and implement improvements.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Ensure catalog work is repeatable, measurable, and not dependent on tribal knowledge or manual heroics.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">PIM Strategy & Product Data</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Own TOOLBX’s PIM operating strategy, including how product data is structured, governed, enriched, and maintained.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Define standards for product taxonomy, categories, brands, attributes, images, descriptions, units of measure, and product relationships.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Partner with Product and Engineering to improve PIM tooling, internal workflows, data models, and automation.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Help determine what should be handled manually, through tooling, through vendor/manufacturer feeds, and through AI.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Turn catalog data into a strategic asset for TOOLBX and its customers.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">AI, Automation & Data Quality</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Use AI tools to improve catalog operations and reduce manual work.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Build or implement AI-assisted workflows for product enrichment, categorization, tagging, normalization, duplicate detection, and QA.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Identify where AI can improve team productivity, customer onboarding speed, and catalog quality.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Create data quality standards and reporting across customers, vendors, and product categories.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Track catalog readiness, data quality, throughput, onboarding blockers, and process performance.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Continuously improve the operating model using AI, automation, workflow tools, and better processes.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Customer & Dealer Catalog Support</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Lead or support dealer-facing catalog walkthroughs during onboarding.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Explain catalog structure, data gaps, product data requirements, and launch readiness in a clear, customer-friendly way.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Partner with Onboarding to set expectations around timelines, customer inputs, and data quality.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Identify repeatable patterns from customer calls and turn them into better templates, processes, tooling, and automation.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Support strategic customer conversations where catalog quality or PIM complexity is important.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Vendor, Manufacturer & Data Source Management</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Develop repeatable processes for sourcing product data from vendors, brands, manufacturers, customers, and ERP exports.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Create standards for ingesting, cleaning, normalizing, and maintaining third-party product data.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Build vendor/manufacturer relationships where needed to improve data quality and availability.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Improve TOOLBX’s ability to scale catalog data across multiple dealers and product categories.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Team Leadership</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Manage and develop a small catalog/merchandising operations team.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Set clear priorities, quality standards, productivity expectations, and ownership areas.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Coach the team on process discipline, data quality, AI usage, automation, and customer communication.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Create a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and hands-on problem solving.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Help the team scale output without adding headcount linearly.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Qualifications:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">5+ years of experience in catalog operations, PIM, product data management, eCommerce operations, marketplace operations, merchandising operations, data operations, or a related field.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Experience working with large, messy, multi-source product datasets.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Strong understanding of product taxonomy, categorization, attributes, enrichment, images, descriptions, units of measure, and data quality.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Proven ability to build operational processes, workflows, SOPs, QA systems, and team playbooks.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Hands-on experience with PIM systems, spreadsheets, databases, automation tools, workflow tools, or product data platforms.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Advanced comfort using AI tools to improve productivity, automate workflows, clean data, enrich content, and improve operational quality.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Strong project management and process design skills.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Ability to manage a small team while remaining hands-on.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Strong customer communication skills, especially around complex data, implementation, or catalog topics.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Background in construction supplies or a related industry domain knowledge is a plus.</span></li> </ul>

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