Job Description

Wurth Canada is a high-performance organization that is built on humanistic values-achievement, trust, respect, integrity, accountability, and affiliation. We promote a strong culture that possesses authenticity and encourages crucial conversations and boldness. If you are looking for the opportunity to make a real impact, be part of a growing organization and grow personally and professionally, you have a future at Wurth!

The Product Manager is a key role in supporting the development and execution of a product marketing strategy from concept to launch for the Chemical category in Canada. This category includes items like lubricants, greases, penetrants, cleaning products and such. With the support of a Technical Product Associate, and leveraging Wurth\'s dominance in the market, you will drive bold innovation in the category, applying insights from market research, sales, and customers to forge new opportunities for Wurth Canada. You will negotiate with internal and external suppliers with the company\'s North American and European purchasing groups, practice full product lifecycle management, keep margins in place, deal with SKU rationalization, and engage in new product introductions.

Our employees enjoy:

• A culture of empowerment and trust that puts a focus on professional development and coaching from a supportive management team.
• A Monday to Friday opportunity that values work/life balance integration, providing flexibility within the day-to-day role.
• Strong compensation (salary and bonus)
• Group Benefits Program (Health, dental, life, EAP, etc.) and Pension Plan
• 3 weeks paid vacation and 5 paid sick days. Company-wide vacation time at end of the year.
• A 6-month mentoring program for new employees
• A corporate recognition platform that promotes appreciation and collaboration providing both intrinsic recognition and monetary rewards.
• An open-door environment that promotes close collaboration within all levels of the organization
• Continued professional development within a privately owned global company that offers both stability and growth opportunities.

A day in the life of a Product Manager:

• Work as a strategic business partner, internally and externally, with vendors and customers to drive innovation and top-line revenue growth for the product and the category
• Fully understand the category within the W\xc3\xbcrth global structure, building relationships across the global company to benefit the category in Canada
• With the support of the Technical Product Associate, act as the Chemical product subject matter expert for the company across Canada, building appropriate networks and relationships across the company
• Collaborate with Wurth Canada Division\'s (Auto, Cargo, Metal & Construction) to execute Divisional product strategies, launches, and life-cycle management.
• Manage the full lifecycle of the product for the Canadian market
• Ensure margins are kept in place
• Negotiate pricing with an eye to managing costs to provide better prices
• Collaborate with the marketing and sales team on promotions, applying informed guidance to the promotion process
• Drive product commercialization through new product development and introduction
• Analyze sales data to find product line gaps, trends, product performance and utilizing that data for present and future forecasts
• Collaborate to spearhead pre-launch activities including the facilitation of sales force and customer training

\xc2\xb7 Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for product success, and continuously evaluate and optimize product performance by providing insight on key differentiators and messaging.

What you will bring to the team:

• Bilingual English/French is an asset
• Experience in product management in related categories
• A background with Chemicals through work experience or education is a strong asset
• Ability to negotiate pricing with internal and external suppliers
• Strong project management skills and ability to positively engage internal and external stakeholders to drive change and meet project timelines
• Analytical skills to work with relevant data from all stakeholders and units to interpret and create insight
• Skilled at using analytical tools to compile, extract and leverage data, creating pivot tables, graphs and presentations
• An innovative mindset and willingness to challenge the status quo and complacency in dealing with a mature category
• Professional communication with competent presentation skills, capable of organizing data to effectively convey insight
• A self-starter who can perform in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

Our parent company, the W\xc3\xbcrth Group is a family-owned globally operating sales organization with over 83,000 employees in 80 countries. Our Wurth sales team caters to clients from a range of different industries such as Automotive- dealerships, garages, and body shops, Cargo - heavy-duty equipment (farming/agriculture, trucking, construction leasing) municipalities, Metal - fabrication, welding, HVAC/plumbing, manufacturing, etc., Construction - General Contractors, and On-Site).

W\xc3\xbcrth Canada is an equal employer and encourages/promotes a diverse workforce. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family status, national origin, or disability status. Please contact a member of the HR team if accommodation is required during any point of the recruitment process.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all requirements. Wurth Canada is looking for individuals that are driven to grow themselves and we provide the necessary training to be successful within the industry. We value career development and growth. However, a strong cultural fit is necessary!

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