Pricing Manager

Houchens Food Group; Bowling Green (KY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Houchens Food Group in Bowling Green, KY seeks a pricing analyst to lead merchandising pricing plans, collaborate with internal and external partners, and develop strategies to enhance profitability.

The candidate will monitor pricing performance, analyze data, report findings to decision makers, and stay current with market trends and competitor prices.

A bachelor’s degree with 5+ years’ related experience is required; strong communication, leadership, and analytical skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills in a dynamic environment.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to create, analyse, interpret, and report analysis results.
• Exceptional team mentoring skills.
• Possess a strong understanding of pricing strategies and concepts.
• Analyse pricing data from industry standards, previous sales trends and competitors and report data to decision makers.
• Identify marketing strategies to increase profits.
• Exceptional time management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical and statistical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High level of creativity and leadership qualities.
• Lead by example.

Responsibilities

• Serve our store operations teams by providing merchandising plans which are clearly communicated and executable.
• Professionally collaborate and communicate with both internal and external business partners.
• Developing and implementing pricing strategies that enhance profitability.
• Working closely with other teams to closely track movements in costs.
• Monitoring and reporting on pricing performance and competitiveness.
• Analysing price change requests from the sales team by evaluating margin impact, potential incremental volume, and competitor price levels.
• Assist in creating promotional campaigns and conducting pricing optimization and cost‑benefit analysis.
• Developing pricing proposals for new products and services.
• Tracking market trends and keeping up to date on prices set by competitors.
• Collaborating with product, sales, and finance teams on pricing decisions.
• Staying updated with pricing best practices and market dynamics.
• Work with various Price Optimization programs.
• All employees are expected to actively participate and contribute to after‑hours events throughout the year. This includes company parties, store visits, and other relevant activities scheduled outside of regular working hours. Employee attendance at these events is fundamental to promoting a positive company culture. Your participation is valued and contributes to a cohesive work environment.
• Other tasks and duties as needed for the organization.

Skills

Excellent communication

Attention to detail

Pricing analysis

Team mentoring

Pricing strategies

Pricing data analysis

Marketing insights

Time management

Analytical skills

Statistical skills

Oral & written communication

Creativity & leadership

Lead by example

Education

Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of appropriate industry related experience

Job description

Description

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Have strong attention to detail.
• Ability to create, analyse, interpret, and report analysis results.
• Exceptional team mentoring skills.
• Possess a strong understanding of pricing strategies and concepts.
• Analyse pricing data from industry standards, previous sales trends and competitors and report data to decision makers.
• Identify marketing strategies to increase profits.
• Exceptional time management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical and statistical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High level of creativity and leadership qualities.
• Lead by example.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Have strong attention to detail.
• Ability to create, analyse, interpret, and report analysis results.
• Exceptional team mentoring skills.
• Possess a strong understanding of pricing strategies and concepts.
• Analyse pricing data from industry standards, previous sales trends and competitors and report data to decision makers.
• Identify marketing strategies to increase profits.
• Exceptional time management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical and statistical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High level of creativity and leadership qualities.
• Lead by example.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of appropriate industry related experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve our store operations teams by providing merchandising plans which are clearly communicated and executable.
• Professionally collaborate and communicate with both internal and external business partners.
• Developing and implementing pricing strategies that enhance profitability.
• Working closely with other teams to closely track movements in costs.
• Monitoring and reporting on pricing performance and competitiveness.
• Analysing price change requests from the sales team by evaluating margin impact, potential incremental volume, and competitor price levels.
• Assist in creating promotional campaigns and conducting pricing optimization and cost‑benefit analysis.
• Developing pricing proposals for new products and services.
• Tracking market trends and keeping up to date on prices set by competitors.
• Collaborating with product, sales, and finance teams on pricing decisions.
• Staying updated with pricing best practices and market dynamics.
• Work with various Price Optimization programs.
• All employees are expected to actively participate and contribute to after‑hours events throughout the year. This includes company parties, store visits, and other relevant activities scheduled outside of regular working hours. Employee attendance at these events is fundamental to promoting a positive company culture. Your participation is valued and contributes to a cohesive work environment.
• Other tasks and duties as needed for the organization.

Knowledge / Additional Skills / Aptitude

Possess excellent oral and written communication, organizational, analytical, and multi‑tasking skills. Able to lead a team and motivate its members to perform at the best of their abilities. Able to collaborate with other support groups and form strong partnerships. Demonstrate flexibility, initiative, good judgment, a sense of urgency and a strong attention to detail. Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint) and other Power BI type software or web‑based reporting applications. Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and be able to manage constant organizational changes.