Retail Pricing Expert, AI & Product

Sampo Pricing; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Sampo Pricing in Dubai is seeking a retail pricing expert to lead pricing strategy and help customers maximize value from our AI-powered platform.

You will review AI-generated pricing recommendations, build vertical playbooks and collaborate with product and data science to translate judgment into features and test cases. English is required; Arabic is a strong plus.

You will work with GCC retailers across electronics, beauty and FMCG, shaping pricing rules and guardrails for real-world scenarios.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in retail or e-commerce pricing, category management or revenue management.
• Hands-on experience setting prices across large assortments, not only analysing them.
• Strong commercial judgement: you know when to follow a competitor and when not to.
• Comfortable with data (Excel/Sheets at minimum; SQL or Python is a plus).
• Able to explain your reasoning clearly and precisely, in writing, to engineers and data scientists.
• English required; Arabic a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Define the pricing strategies, rules and guardrails our engine should support, and how they should behave in real retail situations
• Review AI-generated pricing recommendations, judge which are right or wrong, and explain why, so we can train and evaluate the models
• Build pricing playbooks by vertical and scenario: promotions, competitor stockouts, expiring stock, price wars, new product launches
• Work with product and data science to turn your judgment into features, logic and test cases
• Define how we measure pricing impact and spot where the engine falls short
• Help customers set pricing objectives and configure the right strategies
• Join selected calls with key accounts to review results and advise on pricing decisions
• Bring what you learn from customers back into the product

Skills

Pricing experience

Price setting across large assortments

Commercial judgment

Excel/Sheets

SQL/Python

Clear written communication

English proficiency

Arabic language

Tools

Excel/Sheets

SQL

Python

Job description

About Sampo

Sampo is a pricing intelligence and automated repricing platform for retailers and brands across MENA. We monitor competitor prices, recommend price moves, and run custom pricing rules for merchants in pharmacy, electronics, beauty, pet care and grocery, including Chemist Warehouse, Aster Pharmacy and Petzone. Our pricing engine combines competitor data, sales velocity, stock levels, shelf life and predicted demand.

The role

You will be the retail pricing expert inside our product team. Most of your time goes into making Sampo's AI price like an experienced retail pricing manager would. The rest goes into helping customers get the most out of it.

What you'll do

Improving Sampo (about 80%)

• Define the pricing strategies, rules and guardrails our engine should support, and how they should behave in real retail situations
• Review AI-generated pricing recommendations, judge which are right or wrong, and explain why, so we can train and evaluate the models
• Build pricing playbooks by vertical and scenario: promotions, competitor stockouts, expiring stock, price wars, new product launches
• Work with product and data science to turn your judgment into features, logic and test cases
• Define how we measure pricing impact and spot where the engine falls short

Supporting customers (about 20%)

• Help customers set pricing objectives and configure the right strategies
• Join selected calls with key accounts to review results and advise on pricing decisions
• Bring what you learn from customers back into the product

What you bring

• 5+ years in retail or e-commerce pricing, category management or revenue management
• Hands-on experience setting prices across large assortments, not only analysing them
• Strong commercial judgment: you know when to follow a competitor and when not to
• Comfortable with data (Excel/Sheets at minimum; SQL or Python is a plus)
• Able to explain your reasoning clearly and precisely, in writing, to engineers and data scientists
• English required; Arabic a strong plus

Nice to have

• Experience in GCC retail or marketplaces (Amazon, noon, Talabat, Salla, Zid)
• Background in pharmacy, electronics, beauty or FMCG pricing
• Experience working with pricing software, dynamic pricing or ML teams

Why join

Shape how an AI prices for real retailers across the region. Small team, high ownership, working directly with the founders.