Pricing Manager

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• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave 

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

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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.