Sr Manager Pricing

About the Role

The primary purpose of this role is to lead and develop the team responsible for ensuring Lowe's category pricing strategies are implemented, measured, and optimized across the full product life cycle through the use of strategic pricing and modeling tools. This includes responsibility for driving the process to measure and monitor P&P strategies and tactics through the use of dashboards, visual analytics, and score carding.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the tactical execution and leadership of end to end pricing lifecycle strategy and strategic projects and serves as primary project manager through risk identification and development of risk mitigation
• Ensure that pricing and promotional strategies are developed, implemented, measured, and monitored effectively and efficiently through proprietary and third-party tools, analysis, and reporting
• Develop and present communications, frequently to senior leadership, that convey the right message in an effective way to the appropriate audience
• Collaborate with other Pricing teams to create synergies between teams, share a cohesive vision, and foster an environment of communication and collaboration
• Examine and streamline work flows and processes within the team to increase efficiency
• Responsible for providing input on using new tools and capabilities to deliver competitive pricing recommendations across the full product life cycle to their partners
• Responsible for using new tools and capabilities to deliver competitive pricing recommendations across the full product life cycle to their partners
• Responsible for maintaining key merchandising relationships and a line of communication to establish regularly delivered progress reports and to ensure alignment across functions
• Lead a team of direct reports, completing all the people management activities associated with leadership of a highly functioning team, including responsibilities of recruiting, hiring, developing and performance of team members
• Provide timely, effective and actionable feedback and coaching to reporting individuals so that they may continue growth and development as well as perform necessary responsibilities of their role
• Work with business partners and other stakeholders to prioritize information/reporting needs and prioritizes activities for direct reports

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, Statistics, or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
• 10 years Experience in Price Management, Merchandising, Financial Planning and Analysis, Store Operations, or Logistics
• Experience as a Lead Merchant and/or Pricing Lead in an omni-channel retail environment
• Experience working in cross-functional teams, leadership with direct report responsibility, data elements or financial metrics analyses
• 7 years Experience in Pricing, Data Analytics, Finance, Omni-channel Retailing, or related pricing and promotion field
• Experience working in cross-functional teams, data elements or financial metrics analyses
• At least 2 years of experience working closely with senior leadership (VP and above) and 3+ years of managing direct reports

Preferred Skills

• Master's degree, MBA or other relevant certification
• Prior corporate retail pricing, promotions or competitive intelligence analytics or strategy experience
• Demonstrated experience with price optimization solutions