PIM Consultant

Role: Functional Consultant

Required Skills: Agile | User Experience Design (UXD)

Experience: 15 - 20 Years

Function: TECHNOLOGY

Apply By: 2026-12-19

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Deep functional knowledge of PIM/PXM and the end-to-end retail product lifecycle: supplier/item onboarding, product and variant setup, SKU/UPC relationships, enrichment, attribution, validation, approval, syndication, and downstream publishing.
• Hands-on experience defining product hierarchies, taxonomies, categories, attributes, reference data, business rules, data-quality controls, workflow states, stewardship, and governance.
• Strong retail and digital-merchandising understanding, including PDP content, imagery and digital assets, navigation, search/discovery attributes, marketplace or vendor content, and omnichannel product readiness.
• Ability to lead discovery workshops, document current-state and future-state processes, identify gaps, define personas and journeys, and translate requirements into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process/data models.
• Experience with PIM/PXM platforms or product-catalog ecosystems such as STIBO STEP, Salsify, Syndigo, Akeneo, Informatica PIM, in-house PIM solutions, and DAM/CMS integrations.
• Working knowledge of APIs, events, queues, batch/ETL, data migration, reconciliation, error handling, auditability, and integration patterns across upstream and downstream retail systems.
• Experience collaborating with UX, architecture, development, data, integration, QE, security, SRE/operations, business SMEs, and product owners in Agile delivery.
• Excellent communication, workshop facilitation, analytical thinking, documentation, stakeholder management, and decision-driving skills.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Act as the PIM/PXM domain lead for assigned workstreams and provide functional direction across discovery, design, build, testing, migration, and rollout.
• Lead workshops with merchants, site-merchandising teams, product owners, operations, and technology SMEs to validate pain points, business rules, controls, exceptions, and target outcomes.
• Define future-state capabilities for product onboarding, item setup, enrichment, attribution, taxonomy/navigation, PDP management, workflow/approvals, data quality, governance, and event-driven publishing.
• Create and maintain functional artefacts including capability maps, process flows, domain/data definitions, user journeys, personas, requirement traceability, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and decision logs.
• Partner with solution and data architects to align functional requirements with domain boundaries, data models, APIs, events, integrations, migration, security, and audit requirements.
• Perform fit-gap analysis across custom-build and product-platform options; document configuration, customization, integration, data, operating-model, and adoption implications.
• Support backlog prioritization and MVP/release definition using business value, dependency, risk, data readiness, user impact, and operational-readiness criteria.
• Define data-quality rules, validation thresholds, ownership/stewardship, exception workflows, reconciliation, lineage, and operational controls for product information.
• Collaborate with UX teams on intuitive merchant and administrator experiences, including bulk operations, saved queries, dashboards, exception handling, and productivity improvements.
• Support test strategy and execution by reviewing scenarios, test data, traceability, defect triage, end-to-end flows, UAT readiness, and business acceptance.
• Support product-data migration and cutover planning, including mapping, cleansing, deduplication, transformation, reconciliation, trial runs, coexistence, and rollback considerations.
• Provide functional input to solution demonstrations, POCs, estimation, risks and assumptions, change requests, training material, operating procedures, and transition-to-support plans.
• Identify automation and AI opportunities while ensuring explainability, review controls, data protection, measurable value, and safe human oversight.
• Communicate status, functional decisions, dependencies, risks, and recommendations clearly to business and technology stakeholders.

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.
• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
• Insurance Options: Aut& Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

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Salary Range-$100,000-$130,000 a year