Pricing Manager

Calder News LLC; Grand Rapids, Northern (MI, KY); Híbrido; USD 100 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Weekly pay

Scheduling flexibility

Paid parental leave

Paid education assistance

Team member discount

Development programs for advancement

Resumo da oferta

Meijer is seeking a senior pricing leader to oversee corporate lifecycle pricing strategies and price management systems. You will partner with Merchandising to align pricing with category plans and influence key business decisions through data-driven analysis.

You will mentor a team of analysts, develop guardrails for legal compliance, and present pricing insights to senior leadership, driving growth in sales, margin and market share.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of pricing or analytical experience in retail.
• Proficient in analytical, quantitative techniques to derive insights from large data environments.
• Experience with SAS, SPSS, Stata and pricing tools (Revionics, DemandTec).
• Excellent communication, organization and leadership skills.
• Ability to mentor and lead a team of analysts.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and oversee lifecycle pricing strategies and price management systems.
• Partner with Merchandising GVPs/VPs, DMMs and Buyers to align pricing with category strategies.
• Mentor pricing analysts and drive team growth with stretch goals.
• Develop pricing strategies for national and own-brand programs; model impact on sales, margin, and share.
• Communicate pricing trends and insights to senior leadership; publish scorecards and reports.

Conhecimentos

Analytical thinking

Pricing strategy

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Formação académica

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics

Master's Degree (preferred)

Ferramentas

SAS

SPSS

Stata

Nielsen

MicroStrategy

SQL

Revionics

DemandTec

Excel (Advanced)

Descrição da oferta de emprego

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you're provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family - take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

• Weekly pay
• Scheduling flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Team member discount
• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Responsible for leading and overseeing all corporate life cycle pricing strategies, price management systems, rules, standards, and guidelines. An integral part of this role is to establish a business partnership with all Merchandising GVPs/VPs, DMMs and Buyers to develop and refine pricing strategies that support individual category strategies. Responsible for ensuring that pricing strategies are executed consistently and in alignment with product and promotional strategies. As a result strong influencing skills are important to ensure strategies and guardrails maintained. Responsibility of leading and mentoring a team of Pricing Analysts, providing stretch goals to aid in the team's growth & development, and ensuring accountability.

What You'll be Doing

Building relationships with other Business Units to achieve financial goals:

• Foster a partnership with Merchandising stakeholders to support the development of key pricing strategies and tactics that deliver financial objectives and ROI.
• Strongly influence business decisions based on analyses gleaned from available pricing & research tools (e.g. Nielsen, Consumer Insights, Competitive Pricing Data, etc.) as well as on Meijer pricing and promotion guardrails.
• Provide solutions to support Merchandising and Pricing initiatives with an eye on protecting and/or improving customer price perception, growing market share, and attaining financial goals.

Strategy & Analysis

• Develop pricing strategies for both national brand and own brand programs to deliver optimum sales growth and profit while ensuring they align with overall Meijer branding and pricing strategies.
• Model the impact of proposed price strategies in terms of sales, margin, and share.
• Assess new and existing markets to identify areas of opportunities and develop recommendations.
• Collaborate with other Pricing Managers to establish a competitive price check schedule.
• Ensure that Meijer lifecycle pricing strategies are implemented and maintained.
• Develop guardrails that will ensure legal compliance both in-store & backstage.
• Define data, reporting and system enhancements that will govern lifecycle pricing recommendations and price management system related projects.

Communication

• Ensure timely & actionable scorecards/ad hoc reports are published to all relevant internal partners.
• Develop & present pricing strategy information to Senior Leadership.
• Communicate pricing trends and insights to business partners, articulate impacts to Meijer's current strategy and recommend solutions.

Leadership

• Mentor and provide direction to direct reports.
• Drive accountability within the team to seek out strategic opportunities to maximize sales, market share and margin.
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, or equivalent experience required. Master's Degree preferred.
• 5+ years of pricing or analytical experience in retail.
• Proficient in a wide range of analytical, quantitative, and statistical techniques and tools to derive insights from large, complex data environments.
• Experience with statistical analysis software packages (e.g. SAS, SPSS, Stata).
• Experience with insights, research and reporting tools (e.g. Nielsen, Microstrategy, SQL).
• Experience with price management tools (e.g. Revionics, DemandTec).
• Excellent communication skills: listening, verbal and written.
• Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills.
• Strong work ethic complemented with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Prior leadership/management experience preferred.
• Ability to mentor and lead a team of analysts.
• Office computer skills required; preference for Microsoft application experience.
• Advanced Excel skills required.
• Ability to learn company systems and tools.

We opened our doors more than 90 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we're a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 270 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijer's policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification. Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.