Yardistry Limited Looking for Product Development Administrator at Waterloo, ON Full Time

Are you a detail-oriented individual that enjoys a challenge? Are you looking for a long term, meaningful opportunity? Are you customer service focused and diplomatic in all of your interaction? 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 Product Development (PD) Administrator will

• Work internally with our PD team in Mount Forest and China to understand and communicate product build feedback, quality issues/improvements, and sample requests.
• Be responsible for supporting all internal administrative requests pertaining to wood and non-wood component Asia sourcing (BYP)
• Maintain pricing information, for all existing and new developments accounting for wood and component costs as well as overhead inputs
• 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
• Support with market research of new outdoor product trends
• Support with benchmarking existing products and components with best-in-class criteria to compare and improve on developments
• 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
• Ability to build trust and relationships with all stakeholders
• 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 (ie. ERP systems)

**Position will be a hybrid model between remote work and in an office environment

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $60,000.00-$80,000.00 per year

Schedule:

Application deadline: 2022-03-14