Position Details
Title: Manager, Product Systems & GovernanceDepartment: Business PlanningReports to: Director Planning/Product Systems & GovernanceLocation: Dearborn, MIJob Classification: Remote
Job Summary
The Manager, Product Systems & Governance serves as a strategic business partner responsible for the integrity, governance, and continuous improvement of product data, product systems, and pricing processes across the organization. This role partners closely with Product Development, Design, Merchandising, Color, Raw Materials, GTM, Planning, Sales, Finance, IT, and other cross-functional teams to ensure product information, pricing activities, and system processes support business objectives and seasonal execution.
This position provides leadership and oversight for product systems administration, product data management, pricing operations, and related governance processes. The Manager is accountable for establishing and maintaining data standards, ensuring product master data accuracy and completeness, overseeing pricing audits and execution, and monitoring the effectiveness of system integrations and cross-functional workflows. The role also leads process improvement initiatives, establishes standard operating procedures, and develops reporting and controls to improve visibility, accountability, and adherence to business requirements.
The Manager, Product Systems & Governance drives alignment across business functions and technology partners to identify risks, resolve data and process issues, and improve the efficiency and reliability of product and pricing operations. This role promotes a culture of data ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement while ensuring product data and pricing activities are executed accurately and consistently throughout the product lifecycle.
Associate Responsibilities
Lead product data governance and management practices to ensure product master data, attributes, supplier information, UPCs, size grids, pricing, and other critical product information are accurate, complete, consistent, and maintained in accordance with established standards and business requirements.
Provide leadership, direction, and development for the product systems and pricing functions, establishing clear priorities, accountability, and performance expectations while ensuring the team delivers reliable systems support, accurate data, and timely execution of seasonal and ongoing business activities.
Oversee the administration, maintenance, and continuous improvement of PLM and connected product systems, including SAP, PIM, Centric Planning, GTM tools, vendor portals, and related applications. Ensure system configurations, integrations, and data flows effectively support business processes and product lifecycle requirements.
Establish and maintain data governance policies, controls, standard operating procedures, and accountability measures for product data and pricing activities, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to reinforce data ownership, improve compliance, and ensure consistent execution of established processes.
Oversee product pricing operations, including pricing timelines, audits, and execution in partnership with Pricing, Merchandising, Sales, Finance, and other business partners. Ensure accurate pricing is maintained and communicated in SAP and related systems for regular pricing, in-season updates, promotions, closeouts, and other business initiatives.
Monitor product data quality, pricing accuracy, system integrations, and key operational milestones through reporting, audits, and performance indicators. Identify discrepancies, assess business impacts, establish corrective actions, and escalate risks that could affect seasonal deliverables, pricing execution, or downstream systems.
Partner with GTM, Merchandising, Product Development, Design, Raw Materials, Planning, Sales, IT, and other stakeholders to ensure product data, system requirements, pricing activities, and…