[Hiring] Manager, PLM and Product Data @Gorilla Commerce

Role Description

Gorilla Commerce is seeking a Manager, PLM & Product Data to serve as the business owner and super-user of the company's PLM platform. This role owns it from here — closing the residual data gaps that follow any implementation, raising the standard of governance, and maturing the platform through its next phases of capability.

• The scope is broad but well supported.
• Sourcing teams own day-to-day data entry and maintenance following go-live.
• A dedicated analyst supports bulk uploads, reconciliation, and heavy data work.
• IT leads the technical build of the PLM–ERP integration.
• This role sets the standards, makes the system decisions, and directs the work.
• There is genuine white space here with an 18-month roadmap defined.
• The role can be based globally and works core US Eastern hours.
• This is not a data-entry or system-administration role; it focuses on structure, governance, adoption, and system maturity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in PLM, product data management, or product operations, including direct ownership of a PLM or comparable product-data platform.
• Strong grasp of product hierarchy, multi-level BOMs, specifications, and revision management.
• Experience maintaining product data integrity against an ERP, including reconciliation and integration keys.
• Experience designing or governing approval workflows and version control.
• Advanced Excel and confident handling of large product datasets.
• Excellent written and verbal English.

Requirements

• Experience through a PLM implementation or major system rollout.
• Vendor management experience with software providers.
• Experience in Centric PLM would be a plus.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, integration mapping, and UAT.
• Python, SQL, or Power Query for data reconciliation and automation.
• Exposure to packaging, artwork, or compliance documentation data.
• Background in consumer products, retail, sourcing, manufacturing, apparel, footwear, or hardlines.

Benefits

• High ownership and accountability.
• Strong systems and structured-data thinking.
• Comfortable acting as a data gatekeeper.
• Independent problem solver — brings recommendations, not questions.
• Clear communicator across time zones and functions.
• Builds processes and standards that scale.

Why This Role Exists

• PLM is live, but no single person owns its structure, standards, and evolution.
• Product data underpins sourcing, costing, compliance, quality, and planning.
• Residual implementation gaps need closing — and preventing.
• Adoption determines whether the platform delivers its value.
• This role exists to own PLM end to end, raise data standards, drive adoption, and deliver the roadmap.