Product Data Manager, Market Distribution

Opportunity

Accountable for the design, execution and continuous optimization of product data and content across all market-facing channels. This role ensures that product information is accurate, complete, compliant, and consistently represented wherever customers discover, evaluate, and purchase Kohler products. By acting as a central point of coordination between upstream product data teams and downstream channel and merchandising teams, this role enables scalable, high-quality product experiences across the digital ecosystem.

Work Mode:
Onsite.

Location:

Onsite, four days per week – Kohler, WI.

• Own the end-to-end distribution of product data and content from internal systems of record to all market-facing channels and platforms.
• Ensure product information is consistently delivered in alignment with defined standards, channel requirements, and business priorities.
• Serve as the primary point of coordination for product data and content readiness across the market.
• Operate without direct people management responsibility and achieve outcomes through influence, cross-functional partnership and technical expertise.

• Define and maintain standards, rules, and processes for synchronizing product data and content across all channels in partnership with upstream data owners and downstream channel teams.
• Partner with upstream product data teams to align on source-of-truth definitions, data quality expectations, and update cadences.
• Coordinate change management related to product updates, launches, and ongoing maintenance.
• Collaborate with business teams to understand objectives and translate them into actionable syndication strategies, designing and executing product data syndication workflows, including mapping, validation, transformation and delivery to external partner platforms.

• Collaborate with channel, merchandising, and account teams to ensure product data and content support effective execution across retail, marketplace, and DTC experiences.
• Translate channel-specific requirements into scalable distribution approaches rather than one-off solutions.
• Support consistent product representation while allowing for appropriate channel differentiation.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external partners, data brokers, and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment on product data syndication needs.

• Develop clear documentation of syndication processes and share best practices across teams to drive consistency and efficiency.
• Monitor product data completeness, accuracy, and compliance across market-facing endpoints.
• Identify and help resolve gaps or inconsistencies that impact product representation, customer experience, or channel performance.
• Establish and track readiness indicators to support product launches and ongoing assortment health.

• Identify opportunities to enhance syndication workflows to improve scalability, efficiency and consistency of product data and content distribution.
• Support the evolution of distribution capabilities to accommodate new channels, platforms, and digital discovery surfaces.
• Ensure the availability, accuracy, and optimization of product data to support a seamless digital shelf experience for products across multiple platforms, and proactively lead initiatives to streamline workflows.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience required; advanced degree preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating complex, cross‑functional initiatives related to product data, content, digital commerce, or market-facing systems.
• Working knowledge of product data and content platforms (e.g., PIM, DAM, PXM) and how they enable distribution across digital commerce channels.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational execution.
• Ability to translate business and channel requirements into repeatable processes, standards, and operating practices.

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