Pricing Manager at Houchens Food Group, Inc. – Bowling Green, Kentucky

QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Have strong attention to detail.
• Ability to create, analyse, interpret, and report analysis results.
• Exceptional team mentoring skills.
• Possess a strong understanding of pricing strategies and concepts.
• Analyse pricing data from industry standards, previous sales trends and competitors and report data to decision makers.
• Identify marketing strategies to increase profits.
• Exceptional time management, prioritization, and organizational skills
• Strong analytical and statistical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High level of creativity and leadership qualities.
• Lead by example

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of appropriate industry related experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve our store operations teams by providing merchandising plans which are clearly communicated and executable.
• Professionally collaborate and communicate with both internal and external business partners.
• Developing and implementing pricing strategies that enhance profitability.
• Working closely with other teams to closely track movements in costs.
• Monitoring and reporting on pricing performance and competitiveness.
• Analysing price change requests from the sales team by evaluating margin impact, potential incremental volume, and competitor price levels
• Assist in creating promotional campaigns and conducting pricing optimization and cost-benefit analysis.
• Developing pricing proposals for new products and services
• Tracking market trends and keeping up to date on prices set by competitors.
• Collaborating with product, sales, and finance teams on pricing decisions
• Staying updated with pricing best practices and market dynamics
• Work with various Price Optimization programs.
• All employees are expected to actively participate and contribute to after-hours events throughout the year. This includes company parties, store visits, and other relevant activities scheduled outside of regular working hours. Employee attendance at these events is fundamental to promoting a positive company culture. Your participation is valued and contributes to a cohesive work environment.
• Other tasks and duties as need for the organization.

KNOWLEDGE / ADDITIONAL SKILLS / APTITUDE

Possess excellent oral and written communication, organizational, analytical, and multi-tasking skills. Able to lead a team and motivate its members to perform at the best of their abilities. Able to collaborate with other support groups and form strong partnerships.

Demonstrate flexibility, initiative, good judgment, a sense of urgency and a strong attention to detail. Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint) and other Power Bi type software or web-based reporting applications. Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and be able to manage constant organizational changes.