Procurement Operations Pricing Analyst

Clark Associates; Lancaster (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Clark Associates is seeking a Procurement Operations Pricing Analyst to drive pricing strategies that grow sales, improve gross profit, and enhance margins. The role uses data-driven insights to monitor pricing performance, analyze market trends, and ensure consistency across product categories and channels.

You will execute pricing initiatives, analyze category performance, and support pricing governance while collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize catalog pricing and tools for

Responsibilities

• Execute pricing strategies aligned with organizational goals for sales, gross profit, and operating margin
• Support cross-functional teams by implementing pricing initiatives and promotional strategies
• Understand implications to volume and profit when adjusting pricing to respond to sales trends or competitor pricing
• Analyze sales trends across categories and product lines to identify areas to evaluate market pricing
• Monitor competitor pricing and market conditions
• Deliver market insights through reporting and ad hoc analysis
• Leverage pricing frameworks across different value tiers of products & brands
• Maintain and enhance pricing structures to execute on the strategy of our catalog
• Contribute to building and enhancing pricing tools to enable strategic pricing decisions & track financial impact
• Manage pricing strategies across multiple distribution channels
• Support channel optimization initiatives
• Utilize pricing hygiene reporting to ensure cleanliness of our catalog’s pricing
• Correct pricing discrepancies, gaps, and inconsistencies
• Follow catalog pricing governance standards
• Identify opportunities to improve pricing processes
• Support automation and system improvements
• Collaborate to improve tools, reporting, and efficiency

Job description

Job Summary

The Procurement Operations Pricing Analyst is responsible for executing and maintaining pricing strategies that drive sales growth, optimize gross profit, and improve operating margins. This role leverages data-driven insights to analyze pricing performance, monitor competitive trends, and ensure pricing consistency across product categories and distribution channels.

Responsibilities

Pricing Strategy Execution

• Execute pricing strategies aligned with organizational goals for sales, gross profit, and operating margin
• Support cross-functional teams by implementing pricing initiatives and promotional strategies
• Understand implications to volume and profit when adjusting pricing to respond to sales trends or competitor pricing

Data Analysis & Market Insights

• Analyze sales trends across categories and product lines to identify areas to evaluate market pricing
• Monitor competitor pricing and market conditions
• Deliver market insights through reporting and ad hoc analysis

Catalog & Pricing Structure Management

• Leverage pricing frameworks across different value tiers of products & brands
• Maintain and enhance pricing structures to execute on the strategy of our catalog
• Contribute to building and enhancing pricing tools to enable strategic pricing decisions & track financial impact

Channel Pricing Management

• Manage pricing strategies across multiple distribution channels
• Support channel optimization initiatives

Pricing Hygiene & Reporting

• Utilize pricing hygiene reporting to ensure cleanliness of our catalog’s pricing
• Correct pricing discrepancies, gaps, and inconsistencies
• Follow catalog pricing governance standards

Process Improvement & Scalability

• Identify opportunities to improve pricing processes
• Support automation and system improvements
• Collaborate to improve tools, reporting, and efficiency