Enterprise Pricing Specialist

The Job

The Enterprise Pricing Specialist will support the pricing team by conducting data analysis, generating reports, and helping develop pricing strategies that drive revenue and competitiveness. This is a great opportunity for an early-career professional to gain hands-on experience in pricing and analytics. 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:

• Assist Pricing Analysts in analyzing marketing trends, historical sales data, and competitor pricing
• Monitor pricing performance and make recommendations for optimization
• Assist with Ad-Hoc Analysis to Support Definition and Refinement of Wholesale Pricing Strategy as needed
• Partner with Pricing Analysts and Merchants to Analyze Pricing Simulations (mass valid reports and/or custom) & Develop Recommendations
• Maintains daily dashboards/exception reports including but not limited to $0 Retails, Low Margin SKU Report, MAP pricing, Vendor Change Dashboard
• Investigate / troubleshoot and correct SKU purchase price and/or retailer cost issues in SAP including root cause analysis and process improvements to prevent in future
• Review store inquiries related to retail pricing and provided resolution
• Manage vendor bidding process, including collecting bids and preparing bid comparisons

What you will need:

Knowledge, Experience, and Competencies:

Experience and Technical Requirements:

• 1-2 years analytical experience in Retail, CPG or Management Consulting industries
• Prior retail and/or customer service experience preferred
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and written to various levels of corporate and retail management (e.g., manager through VP and store associate through owner)
• Highly creative, flexible and adaptable with good follow-through
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Eagerness to learn and grow within the pricing or analytics field

Compensation Details:

$64700- $81000 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 disability – up to 26 weeks short-term disability and long-term disability) & life insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 21 days of vacation immediately available (prorated in the first year) and up to 6 paid holidays depending on the month of hire
• Your career at Ace is more than just a job. It’s a chance to be part of something meaningful. We help locally-owned businesses thrive and make an impact in their communities – and we support our employees in doing the same by offering an annual Ace Cares Week, 20 hours off work per year to volunteer at an organization of your choice, opportunities to help Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and the Ace Helpful Fund through the Ace Foundation
• Ace invests in every employee we hire, with a key focus on development and coaching. We offer on-site classes, facilitator-led courses, and a generous tuition assistance program, plus a performance management approach that goes beyond the typical annual review
• We know the work environment matters. That’s why Ace holds frequ