Pricing Analyst I: Drive Margin Growth and Insights

Cooper Machinery Services LLC in; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Job summary

Cooper Machinery Services seeks a Pricing Analyst to turn data into actionable insights on customers, products, costs, and market trends, guiding a pricing strategy that is both competitive and profitable.

You will partner with Sales, Marketing, and Service teams to provide pricing support, from evaluating cost structures to delivering real-time insights and competitive intelligence. This role emphasizes margin performance and market share improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Marketing, or Business Administration.
• 0–3 years pricing experience with a focus on developing and implementing price strategies and tools.
• Proven data analysis experience and strong grasp of pricing models and techniques.
• Proficiency in Excel and ability to learn company's business systems.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic pricing analysis to develop and implement market price guidelines.
• Assist in reducing un-priced items and negative margins in the ERP system and enhance margin analysis tools.
• Validate sales quotations for accuracy and profitability.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Finance and Product Management to gather competitive pricing intelligence.
• Monitor and maintain discount and margin performance by product, region, and customer.
• Maintain data and tools for pricing actions or options to support sales, service, and marketing teams.
• Analyze cost changes and their impact on margins and the business and recommend pricing changes.
• Ensure product pricing data consistency with sales or promotional literature.
• Identify opportunities to optimize sales and profitability through pricing strategies.
• Assist in creating and maintaining pricing dashboards and data.
• Implement KPIs for the regional sales team to support improved pricing strategy.
• Develop capabilities to understand customer segmentation, competitive position, and target value propositions.
• Support price training sessions for Sales, Product Managers, and key functions.
• Collaborate with leadership teams to identify alternative revenue models and opportunities.

Skills

Pricing analysis

Data analysis

Pricing models

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Marketing, or Business Administration

Tools

Excel

SAP

Tableau

Power BI

Access

Job description

Cooper Machinery Services seeks a Pricing Analyst to turn data into actionable insights on customers, products, costs, and market trends, guiding a pricing strategy that is both competitive and profitable.

You will partner with Sales, Marketing, and Service teams to provide pricing support, from evaluating cost structures to delivering real-time insights and competitive intelligence. This role emphasizes margin performance and market share improvement.