Senior Enterprise Pricing Analyst

• As a Sr. Enterprise Pricing Analyst
  , your primary function is to leverage strategic frameworks, competitive research and business data to help develop and drive continued adoption of Enterprise Pricing strategies across the business. Provide analytical, process and systems support to merchandising teams to enable strategic management of enterprise pricing and profitability, from purchase price through end consumer retail.

What you'll do

• Set and maintain Ace Hardware's everyday retail price recommendations for assigned categories. This includes: maintenance of foundational pricing data, scenario analysis / pricing rule development, monitoring and reacting to cost and competitive changes, pro-actively developing pricing opportunities to drive retailer value.
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis to support definition and refinement of wholesale pricing strategy. Partner with merchants to analyze pricing simulations and develop recommendations.
• Ensure comprehensive and accurate competitive data is available for assigned categories. This includes maintaining list of products to be shopped for assigned categories, both exact and comparable matches.
• Contribute in Category Review Process as assigned. Work collaboratively with Category Management and Merchandising to ensure common understanding of the overall category strategy, as well as how this translates to a retail pricing strategy. Analyze pricing of the assortment incorporating the category strategy and present how it translates to an overall pricing strategy.
• Partner with Traffic and Merchants to execute cost changes and ensure freight Rates are updated and incorporated into pricing.
• Investigate / troubleshoot and correct SKU pricing issues in SAP including root cause analysis and process improvements to prevent in future.
• Work collaboratively within the Retail Pricing team to share best practices and learnings with teammates.
• Review store inquiries related to retail pricing and provided resolution. Maintain tracking of issues through resolution. Can include custom store profitability/pricing guidance to provide recommendations to retailers on improving profitability.
• Execute additional ad hoc tasks in SAP. Lead projects to help evaluate and improve aspects of the current retail pricing strategy (e.g., price zones, level pricing, rounding rules, etc.).

What you need to succeed

• A minimum of 5 years of analytical and retail pricing experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Business or analytical field (master's degree a plus)
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively with a broad team from corporate to field to retailers
• Highly creative, flexible and adaptable with good follow-through
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
• Prior experience with SAP Cost/Price Management systems preferred
• Prior retail and/ customer service experience preferred
• Demonstrate proficiency with MS Office:
  Word, Excel, Power Point

Compensation Details:

$88400 - $110700 Per Year

Why should you join our team?

We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don't often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits
* that address life's necessities and perks, many of which expand and improve year after year, including:

• Incentive opportunities, based on role/grade level (rapid company growth over the past 5 years resulted in incentives being paid out at an average of 122% of your target opportunity!)
• Generous 401(k) retirement savings plan with a fully vested matching contribution the first year in addition to quarterly contributions and annual discretionary contribution (once eligibility requirements have been met). Over the past 5 years, company contributions (matching, quarterly & discretionary) for fully eligible employees have averaged 10.4% of total eligible compensation.
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision and…