Product Manager – PPE & Safety (12 Month Contract) - Guelph, ON

Wurth Canada Limited; Guelph; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Wurth Canada Limited is seeking a Product Manager for a 12-month contract in Guelph, ON. This role will drive product strategy and marketing for the PPE & Safety category, requiring strong negotiation skills, analytical capabilities, and a background in product management. Employees enjoy benefits such as three weeks of paid vacation, a culture of empowerment, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

3 weeks paid vacation

5 paid sick days

Corporate recognition platform

Work/life balance opportunities

Supportive management coaching

Qualifications

• Experience in product management in related categories is critical.
• Ability to negotiate pricing with suppliers.
• Strong project management skills to drive change and meet timelines.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and execution of product marketing strategies.
• Conduct market research to monitor trends and customer feedback.
• Collaborate on new product introductions and maintain documentation.

Skills

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Project Management

Bilingual (English/French)

Education

Product Management Experience

Background in PPE & Safety

Tools

Analytical Tools

Job description

Product Manager – PPE & Safety (12 Month Contract) - Guelph, ON

Product Manager – PPE & Safety (12 Month Contract)

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 PPE & Safetycategory in Canada. 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
• 3 weeks paid vacation and 5 paid sick days. Company-wide vacation time at end of the year.
• 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:

• Collaborate on the product roadmap and strategy as defined by Divisional team, in alignment with the overall business goals and objectives.
• Conduct market research to monitor industry trends and customer feedback to identify opportunities for new product development or improvements to existing product offerings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and execute on the new product introduction process, to ensure successful product development and launch.
• Create and maintain product documentation, including, but not limited to, product technical documents and marketing collateral.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for product success: growth, profitability, customer development.
• Continuously evaluate and optimize product performance by creating awareness and driving product life cycle initiatives within the marketing plans
• Act as the product expert and provide product insight to internal and external stakeholders, including customers, partners, and executives.
• Collaborate with the marketing and sales team on promotions, applying informed guidance to the promotion process
• Collaborate to spearhead pre-launch activities including the facilitation of sales force and customer training
• The role works closely with Divisional Directors (Auto, Cargo, Metal & Construction), The Product Department Supervisor, Strategic procurement leads, Quality, Purchasing Supervisor, Pricing, Marketing, Sales Leaders and vendor partners.

What you will bring to the team:

• Bilingual English/French is an asset
• Experience in product management in related categories
• A background with PPE & Safety 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 Würth 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).

Würth 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!