What are the responsibilities and job description for the Asst Product Manager/Product Operations Specialist – Aftermarket Automotive Restoration position at The Eastwood Company?
About the Role
We 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
Product Setup & ERP Management
Culture Index Survey
To help us understand your communication style and motivational needs, we ask all applicants to complete the Culture Index Survey. Please set aside 7-10 minutes in a distraction-free environment to complete it:
Eastwood Automotive Company LLC dba The Eastwood Company
About The Eastwood Company
The Eastwood Company provides solutions that inspire our customers in the DIY automotive niche. We educate and inspire, ensure product quality through in-house research, development, and testing, and deliver professional results at DIY prices. Join our team and thrive in a positive work environment with a competitive compensation package, including health, life insurance, disability benefits, and a matching 401k savings plan.
Are you ready to join our team? Apply now and help support the team that inspires our customers to make it their own! We look forward to hearing from you.
EOE
Background and drug checks are included in our pre-employment screening.
The Eastwood Company participates in E-Verify
We 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.
Product Setup & ERP Management
- 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.
Culture Index Survey
To help us understand your communication style and motivational needs, we ask all applicants to complete the Culture Index Survey. Please set aside 7-10 minutes in a distraction-free environment to complete it:
Eastwood Automotive Company LLC dba The Eastwood Company
About The Eastwood Company
The Eastwood Company provides solutions that inspire our customers in the DIY automotive niche. We educate and inspire, ensure product quality through in-house research, development, and testing, and deliver professional results at DIY prices. Join our team and thrive in a positive work environment with a competitive compensation package, including health, life insurance, disability benefits, and a matching 401k savings plan.
Are you ready to join our team? Apply now and help support the team that inspires our customers to make it their own! We look forward to hearing from you.
EOE
Background and drug checks are included in our pre-employment screening.
The Eastwood Company participates in E-Verify