Yardistry-Product Management Associate

Are you a natural problem solver who loves to come up with innovative solutions? Are you looking for a long term, meaningful opportunity? Are you customer focused, creative, and curious? If so, we have the position for you!

Who is Yardistry?

Yardistry helps customers extend their living space outdoors with our ready to assemble outdoor living products. The Yardistry concept starts with the goal of providing high quality and affordable products.

Yardistry Ltd. is an entrepreneurial and innovative leader in the design and manufacturing of ready to assemble ("RTA") outdoor living products for residential consumers. Yardistry is an organization with the expertise, capacity, and spirit to capitalize on emerging trends in today's dynamic consumer marketplace. As consumers continue to personalize and enhance their outdoor living space, we will continually exceed their expectations in innovative design, safety, and customer service.

The Supply Chain Coordinator will:

• Show curiosity and creativity, thinking big picture on how to bring value to the customer. Implementing methods of continuous discovery to identify opportunities for growth.
• Monitor and develop competitive analysis to search for new product/supplier/sourcing opportunities, and new releases from competition.
• Collaborate with the Creative/Leadership team to execute new products, from concept inception to customer delivery
• Work closely with the Product Development team in Mount Forest and China to understand and communicate product build feedback, quality improvements, and sample requests.
• Be customer-focused and strive to understand a product’s customer base and how to best serve those customers in terms of design, functionality, and user experience.
• Manage projects within set deadlines to ensure product launches adhere to cost and quality expectations
• Break down existing processes to understand the flow of operations and recommend standardized best practices
• Use existing open project logs to maintain list of open deliverables and priorities
• Create, improve, and maintain reports to communicate operational KPIs

What skills are needed to be successful in this role?

• Excellent time management and organizational skills- ability to multi-task
• Excellent problem-solving skills, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work individually and as a team, to build trust and relationships with all stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills to understand cost-benefit of new opportunities
• Can-do attitude and desire to continuously improve
• Experience working within product development/product management is an asset
• Intermediate experience with MS Excel, and turning data into visuals is an asset
• Ability to learn new technical platforms/software

This position is a hybrid office/work from home opportunity. Our head office is in Kitchener, Ontario.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $52,095.00-$71,953.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• Vision care

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Kitchener, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Lean manufacturing: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Kitchener, ON

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