Pricing Specialist

Are you strategic and detail-oriented? Do you enjoy working with others and being a resource for valuable information? Are you skilled at handling large sets of data? If so, we’d like you to join our team as aPricing Specialist.   

About the Role: 

   You will: 

• Manage the pricing strategies for your assigned area and play a crucial role in supporting purchasing and Profit Center teams.

• Analyze and interpret data from our Eclipse software to create actionable insights, ensuring alignment with business objectives and operational needs.

• Independently manipulate, analyze, and present complex data sets in Microsoft Excel to provide strategic insights to the Purchasing Department, Profit Center Managers, and for Divisional Reporting.

• Design and implement data templates for use in our Eclipse software system, ensuring all uploads are accurate, well-organized, and aligned with internal reporting standards.

• Manage and resolve pricing discrepancies, perform price corrections, and conduct independent research on pricing inconsistencies, leveraging advanced knowledge of product pricing and internal systems.

• Lead efforts to maintain accurate product pricing by investigating pricing errors, identifying duplicate records, and managing the merge/purge process to ensure data integrity.

• Independently manage and maintain Sell Groups within Eclipse, ensuring that all product groupings are optimized for operational efficiency.

• Serve as the primary liaison between the purchasing team and other company teammates, facilitating communication and leading efforts to resolve pricing issues, while ensuring alignment with company strategy and territory-specific requirements.

• Proactively communicate vendor price increase notifications to the field, ensuring that all updated price sheets and vendor letters are distributed accurately and promptly.

• Oversee and perform regular updates to the sell matrix, managing field requests, support ticket requests, vendor price fluctuations, new product additions, line changes, and product discontinuations with minimal supervision.

• Utilize mass load functions in Eclipse to efficiently process large-scale data updates, while leveraging advanced reporting tools to extract relevant data for analysis and decision-making.

• Independently manage and prioritize pricing requests from the field, ensuring that support ticket requests are processed quickly and effectively in alignment with company timelines.

• Successfully complete required safety and compliance training programs as assigned.

• Perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required.

About You: 

• 5 or more years of experience managing pricing strategies for a business.

• Intermediate knowledge of pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and date functions in Microsoft Excel.

Our ideal candidate will also: 

• Possess leadership qualities and be viewed as a leader. 

• Possess a high level of accuracy and attention to detail and an analytical mindset.

• Have the advanced skills required in Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access) to be able to effectively analyze data and communicate via email.

• Be able to research and analyze data and solve problems.

• Demonstrate outstanding verbal and written communication, and generous listening skills.

• Have strong organizational and multitasking abilities, with the capacity to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively.

• Be able to build and maintain a positive working relationship with customers, vendors, and co-workers.

• Be able to learn and operate the computer related systems used to create and submit quotation packages and create orders.

• Read, write, speak, and understand English. 

• Be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.