Team Lead - Pricing Analyst

Job Description

As the Team-Lead Pricing Analyst, you will support the Product and Pricing manager by leading and coaching a team of pricing analysts, coordinating and training them, helping them prioritize their work, and ensuring they achieve the team’s monthly KPIs. You will set up processes to maintain vendor costing, discount structures, and retail pricing in an ERP (Infor M3) system and a pricing optimization software (Zilliant), while delivering world-class customer service by responding to all customer, vendor, and management requests in a timely fashion. Your responsibilities include creating audit checklists to correct pricing discrepancies, co-leading the transition of newly acquired businesses into the Emco ecosystem, and proactively communicating with vendors to ensure accurate and up-to-date product and costing information. You will also create data standards for vendors, review and analyze large amounts of information, and maintain an archive of vendor files using SharePoint. Additionally, you will identify and communicate inefficiencies in current processes, connect with business stakeholders to inform them of best practices, build analytics and reporting to provide insight into the pricing team’s performance, and improve internal systems to reflect best-in-class maintenance of vendor and retail pricing.

Key Responsibilities :

• Support the Product and Pricing manager in leading and coaching a team of pricing analysts.
• Coordinate and train the team of Pricing Analysts.
• Help the team prioritize their work and achieve the team’s monthly KPIs.
• Review the performance of the pricing analysts.
• Set up processes to maintain vendor costing, discount structures, and retail pricing in an ERP (Infor M3) system and a pricing optimization software (Zilliant).
• Deliver world-class customer service by responding to all customer, vendor, and management requests in a timely fashion.
• Create audit checklists to help the team correct pricing discrepancies or product data issues.
• Co-lead the transition of newly acquired businesses into the Emco ecosystem. This includes their conversion from their ERP system to Emco's ERP system in the pricing / costing areas.
• Proactively communicate with vendors to ensure product and costing information is accurate and up to date, and that they comply with data standards.
• Create data standards for vendors to ensure the standardization of price lists.
• Review and analyze large amounts of information to draw informative conclusions and recommendations, covering areas such as vendor costing, product descriptions, and product files.
• Create a structure using SharePoint to maintain an archive of all vendor files as a resource for issue resolution.
• Utilize strong business acumen to identify and communicate inefficiencies in current processes and offer implementation solutions.
• Connect with business stakeholders, such as Regional sales managers and pricing managers, to inform them of best practices in relation to vendor and customer pricing in the ERP.
• Build the appropriate level of analytics to provide insight into the pricing team’s performance and service levels to PCs.
• Create the necessary reporting to help each region achieve their growth potential using pricing data (vendor pricing and retail data).
• Assess situations quickly and provide a course of action to best meet the needs of the team and the Profit Centre customers.
• Improve internal systems to reflect best-in-class maintenance of vendor pricing and retail pricing.

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Additional Information

Why Join Our Team?

EMCO Corporation is one of Canada’s largest integrated wholesale distributors of plumbing, HVAC, waterworks, and industrial products for the construction industry. We have endless opportunities for you to grow and develop in your career and a culture that prides itself in supporting you every step of the way!

Salary Range :

This will depend on your experience : 75K-100K annually.

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EMCO is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a discrimination, harassment, and barrier free workplace where all employees can contribute to their fullest potential. EMCO is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workplaces. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour, creed, place of origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, family or parental status, or any other characteristic protected by the law. We welcome applications from all minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, neurodiversity, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.