Description
We are seeking a Pricing Analyst-4 to join our team at Target. As a Pricing Analyst, your core responsibility will be to govern and execute retail price adjustments at the enterprise level to ensure execution matched our intended pricing strategy for each category and item.
Primary Function: The Pricing Analyst's core responsibility is to govern and execute retail price adjustments at the enterprise level to ensure execution matched our intended pricing strategy for each category and item. Analysts own the regular operations and performance metrics. They advance the pricing operations performance for Target by building effective and efficient processes that pair with product technology developments to drive ongoing evolving pricing capabilities.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Be the single point of contact for pricing operations supporting an assigned business (online and stores) and gain expertise on end-to-end pyramid and strategy context.
- Build category context to pair with rigorous data analysis on the drivers of pricing metrics and performance versus enterprise objectives.
- Drive, lead, and deliver new tasks and innovation projects flawlessly with 100% accuracy and timeliness.
- Solve defined problems of high complexity and streamline/redefine processes using structured techniques or automation.
- Drive stakeholder and organizational awareness to performance metrics by creating and publishing dashboards, performing deep-dive analyses to provide insight into the effectiveness of pricing strategies and operations.
- Effectively manage best practices and team governance for your business/process and provide strategic solutions to key areas across pricing.
- Develop and maintain working relationships with price engineering teams, product owners, support teams, AIM (Six Sigma team), item data management teams, and all other teams related to pricing operations.
Reporting/Working Relationships:
- Reports to Senior Manager, Everyday Pricing Operations.
- Key business consultants to enterprise Price and Promotions COE, Merchants, Stores, Technology, and other support areas.
Job Requirements:
- 2-4 years of experience (MBA-Retail/Operations management) or 4-5 years of experience (Graduate – Business/Commerce/Economics/Science/BE/BTech).
- Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Excel and basic SQL.
- Analytical, self-starter, curious, and thrives on learning new capabilities.
- Excellent communicator – ability to present to large groups of people, manage cross-functional projects, and strong organization skills.