Procurement Operations Pricing Specialist

Clark Associates, Inc.; Lancaster (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Clark Associates, Inc. is seeking a Procurement Operations Pricing Specialist to drive competitive pricing strategy execution that promotes sales growth, optimizes gross profit, and improves operating margins.

This role partners with Merchants, Procurement Operations, Global Sourcing and Marketing to translate market insights into pricing actions, manage pricing structures, and enable scalable, data-driven pricing decisions across channels.

Responsibilities

• Pricing Strategy Execution: Lead execution of pricing strategies aligned with revenue, margin, and growth objectives
• Pricing Strategy Execution: Act as a liaison between cross-functional teams: Merchants, Procurement Operations, Global Sourcing, Marketing
• Pricing Strategy Execution: Understand implications to volume and profit when adjusting pricing to respond to sales trends or competitor pricing
• Data Analysis & Market Insights: Oversee sales trends across categories and product lines
• Data Analysis & Market Insights: Track competitor pricing and market factors
• Data Analysis & Market Insights: Translate market insights into actionable pricing changes
• Data Analysis & Market Insights: Execute forecasting and reporting of economic cost drivers
• Catalog & Pricing Structure Management: Leverage pricing frameworks across different value tiers of products & brands
• Catalog & Pricing Structure Management: Maintain and enhance pricing structures to execute on the strategy of our catalog
• Catalog & Pricing Structure Management: Contribute to building and enhancing pricing tools to enable strategic pricing decisions & track financial impact
• Channel Pricing Management: Manage pricing strategies across distribution channels
• Channel Pricing Management: Support channel optimization through pricing adjustments and tracking
• Pricing Hygiene & Reporting: Develop and leverage pricing hygiene reports
• Pricing Hygiene & Reporting: Identify and resolve pricing discrepancies
• Pricing Hygiene & Reporting: Establish pricing governance standards
• Process Improvement & Scalability: Champion automation and system improvements
• Process Improvement & Scalability: Drive collaboration to improve tools and reporting

Job description

Job Summary

The Procurement Operations Pricing Specialist is responsible for driving competitive pricing strategy execution to promote sales growth, optimize gross profit, and improve operating margins. This role acts as a strategic contributor to merchandising and procurement operations leadership, facilitating cross-functional alignment, driving decision-making, and ensuring successful execution of pricing and category initiatives.

Responsibilities

Pricing Strategy Execution

• Lead execution of pricing strategies aligned with revenue, margin, and growth objectives
• Act as a liaison between cross-functional teams: Merchants, Procurement Operations, Global Sourcing, Marketing
• Understand implications to volume and profit when adjusting pricing to respond to sales trends or competitor pricing

Data Analysis & Market Insights

• Oversee sales trends across categories and product lines
• Track competitor pricing and market factors
• Translate market insights into actionable pricing changes
• Execute forecasting and reporting of economic cost drivers

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 distribution channels
• Support channel optimization through pricing adjustments and tracking

Pricing Hygiene & Reporting

• Develop and leverage pricing hygiene reports
• Identify and resolve pricing discrepancies
• Establish pricing governance standards

Process Improvement & Scalability

• Champion automation and system improvements
• Drive collaboration to improve tools and reporting