Pricing Analyst

Staples Canada; Richmond Hill; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Dental benefits

RRSP/DPSP

Performance bonuses

Job summary

Staples Canada is seeking a Pricing Analyst in Richmond Hill. This role offers analytical and strategic support to sales, pricing, and merchandising teams, enhancing decision-making with pricing and cost modelling. Responsibilities include preparing pricing data for sales, ensuring accuracy in pricing documents, and identifying pricing opportunities. A bachelor’s degree in a related field is essential, along with skills in data analysis and problem-solving. Benefits include health and dental coverage, RRSP/DPSP, and performance bonuses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, business, accounting, finance, or equivalent work experience is required.
• Skilled at using data to derive actionable insights.
• Aptitude for creative problem-solving in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Prepare data for sales to present pricing information to customers.
• Identify key risks and highlight opportunities for the sales team.
• Ensure accuracy of customer-facing pricing documents.

Skills

Data analysis

Problem-solving

Time management

Creative thinking

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in economics, business, accounting, finance or equivalent work experience

Job description

As a Pricing Analyst for Staples, you will provide analytical and strategic support to the Sales, Pricing, and Merchandising teams to empower business leaders to make timely and well-informed pricing decisions. This will be accomplished using pricing and cost to serve modelling, analytics, legal agreement reviews, and working internal and external parties to obtain the best possible costing. The analyst will be required to work with multiple departments at all levels to present relevant information to the senior leadership team and ensure pricing activities are implemented to assist the business in achieving EBITDA targets.

Responsibilities

• Prepare data for use by sales to present pricing information to the customer, including explaining pricing rationale, price levels, pricing levers, and providing supporting documentation as required.
• Find more efficient methods of pricing and work with the manager to assess feasibility of solution.
• Be able to adjust quickly and efficiently to evolving requirements such as new margin targets, revenue strategies, technologies, product assortment, etc.
• Identify key risks in opportunities and highlight them for the sales team and management.
• Work with other teams throughout the customer life cycle on different pricing activities including penetration of existing accounts, inflation recovery, account reviews, margin improvement activities, ad-­hoc reporting and analysis, re-acquisition, etc.
• Work outside existing tools to assist the management team with any ad‑hoc activity required for business solutions or planning, including developing easy‑to‑use reports for complex datasets.
• Ensure accuracy of customer‑facing documents including bid pricing submission, financial offering documents, and any pricing or product answers to questions that may be included in legal agreements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, business, accounting, finance or equivalent work experience is required.
• Skilled at using data to derive actionable insights.
• Able to think creatively to find solutions for complex and ambiguous problems.
• Ability to work within multiple tight timelines.
• Must possess strong problem‑solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and manage time effectively with changing priorities.
• Attention to detail: accurate, eager to learn, analytical thought process, and creative thinking.

Benefits

• Health and Dental benefits
• RRSP/DPSP
• Performance bonuses

Location

6 Staples Ave, Richmond Hill, ON, L4B 4W3, CA

Job Identification

66900