Asst Product Manager/Product Operations Specialist – Aftermarket Automotive Restoration
The Eastwood CompanyPottstown, PA
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Job Description
About the RoleWe are seeking a detail-oriented Assistant Product Manager/Product Operations Specialist to support the launch, maintenance, and optimization of aftermarket automotive restoration products. This role is critical to ensuring our products are accurately built into our ERP system, priced correctly, competitively positioned, and supported with clean, structured product data. You will collaborate with suppliers, product managers, marketing, sales, and operations to move products from concept to market with precision and speed.Why Join Us
- Work at the intersection of automotive passion, product development, and data technology.
- Play a critical role ensuring new products go to market accurately and efficiently.
- Collaborative culture with opportunities to grow into product management or technical roles.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Create and maintain product records within the ERP system, including part numbers, fitment data, costing, pricing, BOMs, and attributes.
- Ensure accurate categorization, units of measure, lifecycle codes, and procurement details.
- Maintain change logs, version control, and product status updates.
- Use AI tools to help generate, standardize, and validate product attributes, descriptions, and fitment metadata.
- Monitor and improve product data completeness and accuracy across ERP, PIM, e-commerce platforms, and marketing systems.
- Support the creation of installation notes, application guides, and supporting documentation.
- Conduct competitive pricing research and maintain market price matrices.
- Recommend pricing updates based on margin targets, cost changes, and category trends.
- Monitor MAP policies, marketplace listings, and competitor offerings.
- Communicate with suppliers to gather product specs, costs, lead times, compliance documentation, and technical details.
- Track supplier deliverables and follow up on open items needed for product launch.
- Coordinate cross-departmental tasks required for product introduction, including operations, ecommerce, and marketing.
- Assist product managers in taking new products through the launch workflow and ensuring all data is complete prior to release.
- Manage updates to active product lines—cost changes, supersessions, packaging updates, and part replacements.
- Support reporting efforts, including SKU profitability, assortment gaps, and category performance.
- 2+ years of experience in product operations, catalog management, merchandising, or product coordination (automotive aftermarket preferred).
- Strong familiarity with ERP systems (NetSuite, SAP, Epicor, or similar).
- Excellent data management skills and high attention to detail.
- Ability to use AI tools for data cleanup, attribute generation, and process automation (training provided).
- Competency with Excel/Sheets, including VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP and basic data modeling.
- Understanding of automotive components, restoration products, or fitment data is a strong plus.
- Strong written/verbal communication skills for supplier interaction and cross-team coordination.
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