Product Manager, Digital Product Data

Job Description
Some of what you will do:
As a Digital Product Manager, you will be responsible for driving the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of product data management across all Digital channels at Staples Canada. They will work closely with both business and technical teams to build, optimize, and maintain our Product Information Management (PIM) system and its integrations, ensuring accurate, enriched, and scalable product data flows that power a best-in-class customer experience.

This position plays a critical role in enabling a seamless, consistent, and high-quality product catalog for our B2B and B2C digital experiences. The successful candidate will provide product data and PIM expertise, develop a commercially viable product roadmap, and lead initiatives to improve product data quality, governance, and automation across our ecosystem.

The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to plan, develop, integrate, migrate, and optimize product data processes while supporting the growth of our business and the future-state vision for digital commerce.

Specifically, You Will

• Own the product data strategy for all digital channels, ensuring high-quality, complete, and consistent product information across platforms.
• Create and maintain the product roadmap, prioritizing features and enhancements based on business goals and customer needs
• Partner with business and technical teams to improve data governance, taxonomy, enrichment workflows, and automation.
• Monitor and optimize product data flows, identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities to streamline processes.
• Writes and prioritizes requirement stories / develops business cases where required
• Engages teams to ensure projects are delivered on-time and on-budget.
• Manages cross-functional relationships, communication, and negotiation.
• Provides routine and transparent product updates to executive level stakeholders via formal presentations and written communication.
• Stays informed of industry trends and best practices for current products to shape how to go about meeting business needs while performing research and providing recommendations for enhancements to current suite of products.
• Identifies key needs, perform gap analysis, assess new product ideas / innovations, determine market opportunity, and participate in prioritization of initiatives
• Adapts well to change in direction and priority in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.

Some Of What You Need

• BS/BA degree or equivalent (MBA an asset)
• Agile certification an asset
• Strong understanding of Product Information Management (PIM) systems, product data governance, and digital commerce ecosystems.
• Strong analytical, data-driven decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to navigate large organizations and develop strong business partner relationships.
• Outstanding influencing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to foster a positive and motivating work environment, encouraging feedback and innovation.
• Self-starter, high-energy, with ability to execute on business objectives.
• Experience with product road-mapping tools, open-source technologies, public/private cloud technologies.
• 3+ years' experience as a Product Manager or Product Data Manager, ideally supporting a PIM system or product catalog in a B2B/B2C eCommerce environment.
• 3+ years' hands-on technical experience with PIM or related data platform
• Experience with both Agile and Scrum
• Familiarity with eCommerce workflows and customer journey optimization.

Some Of What You Will Get

• Associate discount
• Health and Dental benefits
• RRSP/DPSP
• Performance bonuses
• Learning & Development programs
• And more...

About Us
Staples Canada is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including those with disabilities.

About The Team
About the Team
At Staples Canada we are dynamic, inspiring partners to our customers and the communities in which we live. As The Working and Learning Company, we inspire people to work smarter, learn more and grow every day. We're looking for curious, approachable, and passionate individuals who love finding solutions. If that's you, let's work, learn, and grow together.

We are building an inclusive and diverse team
Staples Canada is continuously working towards creating an inclusive and diverse work environment. We welcome, value and thrive on perspectives and contributions from backgrounds that vary by race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.