Cost/Price Analyst

NextDeavor offers an 18-month contract role with a standard daytime shift and guaranteed 40 hours per week.

About the role

You will help shape pricing decisions that affect divisional profitability and long-term strategy, working closely with product managers, field sales, and divisional leadership. Your analyses will directly inform list pricing, discounts, and exception pricing authority.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement continuous improvement methods to streamline pricing processes and reduce waste.
• Develop systems and reporting improvements to measure and monitor pricing effectiveness and efficiency.
• Analyze product markets to determine ceiling and floor prices and evaluate pricing versus volume, cost, competition, and distribution.
• Monitor and reinforce corporate strategic pricing initiatives across divisions.
• Create feedback mechanisms and tools for product managers and field sales to support successful pricing models.
• Assist divisions in setting list prices, standard discounts, rebates, and managing price increase communications and publication.
• Analyze exception pricing processes and recommend guidelines and authority levels.
• Produce management reports to enable timely responses to economic and market changes and perform ongoing pricing effectiveness measurements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with excellent proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Access.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Project management skills; ability to coordinate with sales/marketing and cross-functional stakeholders.
• General understanding of manufacturing processes, practices, and cost accounting.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of pricing information.

Qualifications

• Sales or marketing experience is a plus.

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental benefits for contract employees.
• Paid sick leave eligibility contingent on state of residence.
• Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match).
• Opportunity for extended or permanent full-time employment at a well-established corporation.

Pay

$36.00 - $45.00/hour