Manager Pricing

Role overview

Pricing strategy and analysis

• Develop enterprise decisions on pricing, sales and profit optimization, data governance, business rules, pricing exceptions, training, and process efficiency.
• Lead pricing strategies, CPI goals, price-zone recommendations, promotional effectiveness, and performance metrics; communicate results and recommendations to market and senior leadership.
• Use category financial levers, customer shopping behavior, segmentation, category and item strategies, and business drivers to inform pricing.
• Provide pricing insights and recommendations and develop recurring, quarterly, and annual pricing and planning documents.
• Perform complex business analyses and projects to drive sales, profits, and business efficiencies.

Tools, data, and partnerships

• Oversee price-optimization software and tool selection, data management and testing, deployment, training, change management, and process improvement.
• Lead pricing data projects and collaborate across departments to improve reporting and data processes; identify opportunities to automate analyses and processes.
• Own and maintain pricing master data, including brand and size relationships, competitor relationships, product matching and linking, and item grouping.
• Manage competitive-intelligence vendor relationships, including vendor selection, data validation, product linking, and system expansion.
• Evaluate competitors and marketplace dynamics, anticipate events, develop what-if scenarios, and recommend pricing responses.
• Partner with senior and market leadership, third-party vendors, and consultants; communicate findings and assist Legal and Real Estate with pricing research and analytics.

Candidate qualifications

• At least five years of analytical and/or financial experience.
• Five or more years of pricing-related experience is preferred; two or more years of category experience is recommended.
• Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite.
• SQL experience is preferred; GCP knowledge is ideal.
• Adeptness with business intelligence tools, including report development.
• Ability to clearly synthesize and summarize information, influence action, and gain consensus.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, organize work, and prioritize multiple tasks.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.