Analyst Pricing Strategy - 15 month contract

Sobeys; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 56,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian grocery retailer seeks a Pricing Strategy Analyst for a 15-month contract based in Mississauga. This hybrid role requires pricing analysis, strategic collaboration, and support for category management efforts. Candidates should be detail-oriented, with strong quantitative skills and experience in pricing strategies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience with an Undergraduate Degree or 4 years with a DEC.
• SAP experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain regular retail pricing strategy for assigned merchandise category.
• Collect, validate, and analyze competitive retail prices.
• Run price optimization scenarios to maximize sales and profitability.

Skills

Quantitative Analysis

Analytical Aptitude

Pricing Strategy

Education

Undergraduate Degree

DEC

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

Requisition ID: 190096
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Pricing Strategy
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Nova Scotia; Alberta; British Columbia; Ontario
City: Mississauga, Calgary, Dartmouth, Stellarton

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

Reporting to the Pricing Strategy Manager, the Pricing Strategy Analyst is responsible for both pricing analysis and execution to support the overall strategy of their assigned category. This is a hybrid role and there is an in office requirement of 3 times a week. This is a 15-month contract.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

• Maintenance of regular retail pricing strategy for assigned merchandise category – including listing of latest items, executing pricing changes and all activities related to ensuring stores can sell items to customers
• Collection, validation, and analysis of competitive retail prices to ensure Pricing and Category Management teams have the data required to make educated pricing decisions
• Qualitative and Quantitative analysis aimed at improving financial results, processes, and overall health of the business
• Maintenance of and review of all costing and retail documentation to ensure integrity
• Tracking pricing across assigned categories and where required, recommending new retail prices to maintain margins or achieve index targets
• Analysis of business intelligence or governance reports (SAP, BW, Nielsen, etc.) to identify opportunities to improve regular retail pricing
• Run price optimization scenarios and offer suggestions to category management to maximize sales and profitability
• Support stores by resolving pricing issues which impact stores, customers, and partners
• Investigate pricing or audit issues which negatively impact margins and implement solutions to correct them
• Collaborate on all pricing related initiatives with Category managers
• Represent pricing in cross-functional projects with the aim of improving pricing processes and execution
  

What you have to offer:

• An Undergraduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience or a DEC and a minimum of 4 years relevant experience
• SAP experience or analytical aptitude to mainframe systems is preferred
• Quantitative Analysis in Excel (Pivot Tables, Sorting, Filtering, Lookups
  
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At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

The salary range for this position in British Columbia is $56,000.00-$77,000.00. We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure that you are paid fairly and competitively.

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.