Pricing Analyst

Client: Retail Client
Role: Pricing Analyst
Job Type: 6 month Contract to Permanent
Location: Brampton (4 days onsite)

Your New Company
Our client, a very well-known retail company looking to hire a Pricing Analyst.

Your New Role:

This is a highly visible role across the organization that will challenge your ability to work with ambiguity, manage large amounts of data, turn insights into action, and make strong connections with business leaders. You will be working independently with category business managers, building relationships and interpreting category, brand, and vendor strategies and their impact on price. You will have the opportunity to develop and implement new or existing frameworks that improve our customer’s price perception, while maximizing our categories profitability.

• Proactively manage competitive data by analyzing and reporting on Price Competitiveness to achieve Operational Targets (i.e. margin requirements and drive positive price perception and customer value
• Collaborate with Pricing Specialists to ensure accurate and timely execution of operational tasks supporting various cross-functional teams.
• Understand competitive web scraping data to identify, communicate, and resolve data anomalies to uphold integrity in competitive index reporting and dynamic pricing
• Leverage Enterprise data via Thought spot/MS Access/KNIME to conduct business analysis in support of Merchandising requirements and Pricing Strategic objectives
• Collaborate x-functionally with teams across the organization to support and enhance strategic Pricing Team tools and processes

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with colleagues at various levels of the organization
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to provide insights using data
• Highly organized and detail oriented, able to tackle multiple projects with varying scope
• Agile and innovative individuals, who are able to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity
• 1-3 years’ experience in an analytical role
• Solid communication skills, problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong knowledge of MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
• Knowledge/experience with ThoughtSpot or KNIME (or SQL) considered an asset
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced business environment
• Merchandising and/or retail experience is an asset

What You’ll get in Return
The client is offering a Contract to Permanent, with a high likelihood of extension.

Interested?
If you’re available and interested in this role, please reply to Shivangi.gupta@hays.com as soon as you can attaching your updated resume and hourly rate requirement.

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