BRIEF POSITION SUMMARY:

The Senior Marketing Pricing Analyst, under limited supervision, is responsible for the effective maintenance of MSC's credible ranges which includes proactively analyzing and making recommendations to optimize sales and profitability, while considering competitive market dynamics, category role, costs and other levers. This role will use various enterprise software and tools to collect, analyze and evaluate data supporting the effective management of credible ranges. In addition, this role is responsible for running analysis to determine ideal price points, optimizing revenue and profitability for new and existing products. This position supports key processes and methods to evaluate and recommend credible range in the establishment of price.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partners with third parties to effectively source and maintain web scrapings.

• Maintains Business Unit approved optimal competitors to scrape by category to support credible range calculations.

• Maintains premium or discount applied to competition by category to support credible range calculations.

• Ensures unit of measures mapped correctly.

• Highlights any exclusive brand only taxonomies so that the Business Units can provide exclusive brand crosses to competition.

• Compiles and maintains Good/Better/Best, Industry brand to exclusive brand, Brand, UOM relationships, Size Factors & Anchor SKU from Business Unit/Category teams including coordinating with marketing/digital to support data being available for downstream processes.

• Compiles manufacturer list prices maintained by the Cost Management Team.

• Compiles, validates, obtains approval, and incorporates new logic to derive “Market-Derived Credible Prices”.

• Calculates and publishes credible MSC price range for all active items monthly.

• Helps drive the credible range pricing process and analytics to optimize MSC visible market prices.

• Partners with Precision, Pricing team, IT and pricing application provider in design and implementation of systems and reporting improvements for measuring and monitoring credible range prices

• Serve as a trusted adviser to the category teams on credible range process to support profitable sales growth.

• Build strong cross functional working relationships inclusive of marketing, finance, and business

• intelligence, IT, sales operations, category management, and field sales for all customer segments.

• Understands and interprets organization goals and initiatives so that priorities are balanced, and timelines established in a cost-effective manner.

Fosters the MSC Culture in the department and throughout the company to ensure fulfillment of MSC's vision and unity of purpose.

• Participation in special projects and performs additional duties as required

QUALIFICATIONS

What You Need:

• A bachelor's degree in business, finance or equivalent experience is required

• Minimum of eight years' professional experience with at least five years' experience in an analytical role with one or more of the following disciplines: financial analysis, business strategies, pricing or sales required

• Expertise in retrieving data from systems, such as business intelligence tools

• Hands-on expertise of large-data analytics tools, such as Alteryx and Tableau, and/or specific pricing applications such as PROS, Vendavo, Zilliant, R Studio or others

• Experience working with distribution, manufacturing or related industrial markets

• Excellent PC skills (MS Office Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Access) required

• Excellent analytical, quantitative and data visualization skills are required

• Financial analytics with a deep understanding of revenue, margin and pricing

• Excellent oral and written communication skills are required

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of associates within the organization required