Pricing & Costing Leader — ML-Driven Growth

Carparts.Com; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

CarParts.com is seeking a Head of Pricing and Costing to lead pricing and cost strategy for millions of SKUs across CarParts.com and marketplace channels. Reporting to the Chief Data and AI Officer, this leader will define pricing strategy for private label, branded, and dropship assortments and oversee price execution across all channels.

This player-coach role will lead pricing analytics and data science professionals while remaining closely engaged in data analysis, model development, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of pricing experience in large-scale ecommerce or marketplace businesses.
• Proven track record pricing millions of SKUs across channels (private label, branded, dropship).
• Experience pricing on major marketplaces (Amazon, eBay).
• Cost management and multi-vendor cost selection expertise.
• Strong knowledge of price elasticity, optimization, and ML in pricing.
• Able to translate analysis into P&L outcomes and communicate to exec leadership.
• Player-coach leadership in a fast-paced, in-person environment.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end pricing strategy for CarParts.com and marketplace channels.
• Define channel-specific pricing rules, margins, and price architecture.
• Drive machine learning applications in price formation.
• Design pricing experiments and quantify impact on revenue and margins.
• Oversee price updates across CarParts.com and marketplaces.
• Ensure pricing governance, MAP compliance, and audit trails.
• Develop cost data strategy for multi-vendor supply base and translate cost changes into pricing actions.
• Lead pricing analytics and data science professionals and report KPIs to executives.

Skills

Pricing analytics

SQL

Excel

Python or R

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Job description

CarParts.com is seeking a Head of Pricing and Costing to lead pricing and cost strategy for millions of SKUs across CarParts.com and marketplace channels. Reporting to the Chief Data and AI Officer, this leader will define pricing strategy for private label, branded, and dropship assortments and oversee price execution across all channels.

This player-coach role will lead pricing analytics and data science professionals while remaining closely engaged in data analysis, model development, and