Director - Pricing Analytics and Strategy

Support Center - Irving

Director - Pricing Analytics & Strategy is part of the pricing team. This team provides direct support to the merchant team with regards to regular, promotional, and clearance pricing. This position will directly manage a portion of the pricing managers as well as coordinate promotional activities across all pricing managers. The person will need to be a strategic thinker as well as a tactical executer that draws a clear line connecting the two.

Manage Promotional activity

• Research and analyze historical information to create strategies and tactics to increase sales and margin
• Coordinate the identification and forecasting of promotion and coupon discounts across all channels.
• Partner with Merch finance to identify weekly financial targets with regards to promotions

Manage Pricing Manager Resources

• Lead teams to hit and exceed financial goals
• Develop a strong sense of team / esprit de core
• Help pricing managers build strong relationships based on trust
• Help pricing managers leverage analyses that are transparent and understandable to all roles in the organization
• Oversee pricing manager day to day activities
• Support pricing managers with difficult analyses or discussions
• Help manage individual development plans for each resource

Lead successful implementation of strategic pricing projects

• Identify and implement initiatives that will make existing processes more efficient
• Identify and implement initiatives that will identify new programs that will deliver a better return on ‘discount spend’
• Identify and implement processes that should be stopped, outsourced, or automated

Other duties as assigned

Minimum Education

• MBA or Master’s degree in Quantitative field, such as Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Engineering, Statistics or Operations Research

Minimum Type of experience the job requires

• 4-6 years in Business in a complex analytical role
• Manager/Sr Analyst role in an analytical function
• Experience developing a department and process from the ground up

Preferred Type of experience the job requires

• Advanced SQL experience
• Power BI or Tableau report building
• Python experience a plus
• Retail or consumer products experience a plus, but complex analytical experience is the priority

Applicants in the U.S. must satisfy federal, state, and local legal requirements of the job.

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