PIM Business Analyst | 12+ Year | Hybrid |

Senior E-commerce Product Merchandising / PIM Business Analyst

Experience: 12+ Years | Role Type: Business / Functional

Role Summary

We are looking for a Senior E-commerce Product Merchandising / Business Analyst with strong experience in e-commerce, product catalog management, merchandising, and business stakeholder collaboration. PIM experience is not mandatory. Candidates with strong e-commerce and merchandising experience who understand complex product catalogs can be trained on PIM.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with business, merchandising, product, marketing, and e-commerce stakeholders to understand product and catalog requirements.
• Manage and analyze complex product catalogs, including SKUs, categories, attributes, variants, pricing, and product relationships.
• Gather business requirements and translate them into clear functional requirements, process flows, and documentation.
• Support product merchandising and catalog-related processes across the e-commerce lifecycle.
• Identify catalog data gaps, inconsistencies, and process improvements.
• Work closely with business teams to define product taxonomy, categorization, attributes, and enrichment requirements.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate and consistent product information.
• Understand existing business processes and recommend practical improvements for catalog and merchandising operations.
• Support PIM-related initiatives and learn the client's PIM platform as required.

Mandatory / Core Skills

• 6+ years of experience in E-commerce / Digital Commerce.
• Strong Product Merchandising experience.
• Strong understanding of product catalogs and catalog complexity.
• Experience handling product attributes, variants, categories, SKUs, pricing, and product data.
• Strong experience working with business stakeholders, merchandising teams, and product teams.
• Strong Business Analysis / Product Management capabilities.
• Requirement gathering, documentation, process mapping, and stakeholder management.
• Shopify / Shopify Plus experience is strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Good to Have

• PIM experience with Akeneo, Pimcore, Salsify, Informatica, Stibo STEP, or similar platforms.
• Product data enrichment and governance experience.
• Catalog migration, taxonomy, categorization, or attribute management experience.
• Experience working with large or highly complex product catalogs.
• Exposure to PIM implementation or transformation projects.

Target Candidate Profiles

• E-commerce Business Analyst
• E-commerce Product Manager
• Digital Product Manager
• E-commerce Merchandising Manager
• Product Merchandising Analyst
• Shopify Business Analyst
• Shopify Product Manager
• E-commerce Catalog Manager

Profiles to Avoid / Deprioritize

• Pure technical developers.
• Technical PIM developers focused mainly on coding or integrations.
• API / integration-focused candidates without strong business or merchandising exposure.
• Candidates without hands-on experience in e-commerce product/catalog processes.

Recruiter Search Requirement

6+ years E-commerce experience with strong product merchandising/catalog complexity and business stakeholder management; Shopify experience preferred. PIM is not mandatory and can be trained. Target strong BA, Product Manager, and Merchandising profiles rather than technical developers.