Pricing Lead

Job title: Pricing Lead

Job description: Company Description

SSENSE (pronounced [es-uhns]) is a global technology platform operating at the intersection of culture, community, and commerce. Headquartered in Montreal, it features a mix of established and emerging luxury brands across womenswear, menswear, kidswear, and Everything Else.

SSENSE has garnered critical acclaim as both an e-commerce engine and a producer of cultural content, generating an average of 100 million monthly page views. Approximately 80% of its audience is between the ages of 18 to 40. It is privately held and has achieved high double digit annual growth and profitability since its inception.

Job Description

Reporting to the Senior Pricing Manager, the Pricing Lead will play a key role in our fast growing organization. Recognized as a subject matter expert both within and beyond your function, you will solve unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business. The ideal candidate demonstrates a strong passion for driving pricing initiatives from governance and analysis to process optimization and data mining, covering the complete pricing lifecycle. An important share of the work will be dedicated to dealing with partially automated processes & new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead large cross functional projects in line with strategic initiatives, while delivering quick wins and continuous performance improvements (40%)
• Optimizing pricing structures to generate incremental sales (20%)
• Drive & recommend pricing processes and systems to optimize the day-to-day activities (20%)
• Demonstrate leadership, working independently with clear governance, while integrate a range of different perspectives, experiences and ideas to improve personal and team performance (20%)
• Track, measure, and report on the impact of pricing and promotional activities
• Analyze data and trends to recommend appropriate pricing changes in response to the competition and macroeconomics
• Partner with the buying/merchandising team in defining and executing the different pricing strategies
• Be a thought leader for our Product and Tech teams to help shape the mid to long term vision for pricing products
• Partner with the Data Science team to help develop models and algorithms to automate pricing decisions
• Consult with Finance to establish and implement a framework to optimize bottom-line impact

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Commerce, Engineering, or a related field
• 7-10 years of total experience, including 5+ in Pricing or adjacent fields
• Hands-on approach to problem solving – from obtaining data, standardisation, analysis to implementation
• Experience in a supervisory role, an asset
• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel in particular)
• Good understanding of Data Science challenges and stakes
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills, French an asset

Skills

• Very analytical and detail oriented
• Capacity to synthesize and simplify complex information in order to communicate complex problems to senior leadership
• Thinks through all angles to positively challenge & create new and innovative processes, clearly explaining the rationale for change
• Highly motivated and organized
• Creative thinker with excellent problem solving abilities
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment
• Strong interpersonal skills with a natural ability to build relationships

Company: Ssense

Expected salary:

Location: Montreal, QC

Job date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 07:00:45 GMT

Job Source: Careerjet.ca

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