Senior Pricing Analyst

Who We Are

Working at Reece & Fortiline means being part of a growing global company that brings our purpose and values to life every day. We celebrate our team members living our values and provide opportunities to build a long and remarkable career. We’re proud to support essential industries helping bring clean air and water to everyone. To learn more about our purpose and values, visit our career site at https://careers.reece.com/us/

Purpose                                                                                        

Senior Pricing Analytics Analyst is responsible for using advanced data analytics in establishing pricing business strategies for optimizing gross profit while being accountable for executing the data driven analytics defining the strategies.  The brief is to continue to advance our model and service in the USA managing pricing across all product and customer segments, advancing the Customized Pricing Model, to ensure we are competitive and profitable.

The primary role of Senior Pricing Analytics Analyst is to introduce and utilize advanced data analytics to achieve optimum overall acceptance and profitability of Customized Pricing, ensure the appropriate level of pricing competitiveness and to build a culture of data driven pricing decision making.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

DELIVER FORWARD THINKING LEADERSHIP

• Lead by example by adapting and continue to deliver world class service
• In conjunction with your peers, communicate pricing strategies, policies and procedures throughout the organization
• In conjunction with the Network leaders (RVP, GM, Lead) effectively teach data driven Customized Pricing to the Network

INSPIRE POSITIVE CULTURE CHANGE

• Lead a culture that fosters the health, safety and wellbeing of all people
• Foster the Reece culture founded on The Reece Way values across USA
• Consistently demonstrate The Reece Way values
• Live the Reece Way values and embrace the 2030 principles for success

KEY CAPABILITIES                                                                       

Be a forward-looking leader & influencer

• Lead the solutions in a way that role models our values and our culture of high performance
• Lead cross business collaboration
• Positively shape the culture towards innovation and winning
• Act as a role model of the culture, purpose and values of the business
• Demonstrate strong self-awareness and humility as an influential team member

Operational Leadership

• Develop and implement data driven pricing strategies for the company’s products
• Support development of department processes and guidelines,
• Participates, contributes, and leads department discussions and meetings, as well as inter-departmental meetings
• Initiates interdepartmental interaction to improve processes and methods
• Delivers timely results independently and as a project leader
• Exhibits a balanced approach to solving problems and develops creative solutions to achieving objectives and overcoming issues
• Effectively presents data and results to drive stakeholder and management consensus

AI-Powered Pricing Solutions

• Support the design, development, and implementation of AI-powered pricing solutions.
• Advance and digitize pricing processes to support the Reece 2030 vision.

Experimentation and Optimization

• Be an active participant within the culture of experimentation and continuous optimization in pricing.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with Data, Sales, Transformation and Merchandising teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Partner with the Network and its Leaders to advance data driven Customized Pricing.
• Effectively communicate recommended changes in pricing, supporting the transparency & consistency pillars of the Four Pillars model

Lead digitization

• Support development proposals for the digitization of pricing processes and execute industry world class solutions.
• Introduce new methodologies that advance automation of foundational processes.

Be a confident and authentic storyteller

• Actively seek and shares information, encourage collaboration
• Invest time in being externally curious, explore and share learning that encourage new thinking and ideas

Show critical thinking

• Demonstrate the ability to balance priorities to support solutions for the 2030 pricing strategy for the USA business
• Drive innovation & creativity through a relentless focus on the Customer
• Demonstrate rigor in analytical thinking and agility in decision making

Demonstrate functional & technical expertise

• Maintain the focus on our purpose and values, as these underpin our culture
• Significant experience working across multiple geographic and cultural regions.
• Execute the responsibilities in a lawful and ethical way
• Track record of delivering the ROI on business cases.
• Execute category focused aporach across the network while building and maintaining local relationships.

Role model high performance and a growth mindset

• Focus on profitability outcomes that align with delivery of the 2030 strategy and strategic priorities
• Work hard and consistently set and deliver high standards
• Role model continuous personal development and learning
• Take accountability to achieve agreed outcomes for assigned categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish pricing business strategies for optimizing gross profit in the assigned categories
• Create data driven reporting and dashboards to promote the benefits of Customized Pricing for every customer to branch network
• Provide analytical insights and advise the Network, Pricing colleagues and Category Management of price, cost and purchasing opportunities to improve gross profit.
• Effectively communicate strategies to branch network, merchandising & purchasing teams.

MinimuM Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Statistics, Analytics, Mathematics, or other similar degrees required
• Minimum of 5 years of cost / pricing, revenue management, operations, sales, or business development experience required
• Minimum of 2 years of wholesale distribution industry experience preferred
• Hands on experience with a pricing optimization system (eg. PriceFX, Vendavo, ZIlliant) preferred

Our commitment to excellent customer service is just part of our story.  We’re also dedicated to supporting our most valuable asset, our associates! One of the ways we do this is by offering a variety of high-quality benefits for our associates and their families.

All full-time associates are eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical and Dental Insurance

• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts

• Company-paid Life Insurance

• Short Term Disability

• 401(k) Plan

• Paid Time Off (PTO) - plus paid holidays

• Parental Leave

Voluntary benefits:

• Vision

• Long-term Disability

• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance

• Additional Voluntary Benefits through Corestream

We're an equal opportunity employer and we welcome diversity and inclusion! Reece USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer— Employer Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, and any other status protected by law.