Pricing Analyst

Musgrave is one of the Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation, supporting communities across the island of Ireland and Spain. Every day we feed one-in-three people in Ireland through 11 market leading food and beverage brands that include SuperValu, Centra, Frank and Honest and Musgrave Market Place. We support thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses who live and work in the heart of the communities they serve. We are committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland and we are making changes across the company to make sure that happens. We want to make a positive impact on the world, and we will support our suppliers and customers to make a difference too. We are seeking an Pricing Analyst to join the Trading Team. Role Purpose: We are currently recruiting for a pricing strategy support analyst to work cross functionally between sales and trading. With oversight from the Price Strategy Manager, the successful candidate will effectively provide insight and recommendations pricing across the wholesale division of the Musgrave business. The KPIs are therefore based on margin protection and improvements while ensuring the business value proposition is delivered upon. As well as this, the role would focus on driving the future of our pricing strategy and model, supporting the pricing strategy manager in driving efficiency and technology into our ways of working both from a future pricing system solution and reporting perspective. The idea candidate will have an opportunity to drive real change and improvement into our business. The key responsibilities of the role are (not limited to):

• Weekly reporting of pricing versus competitors through price index reads, layering with insight outlining market movements
• Price Index Trends: Ensuring we maintain position or improve where needed
• Maintain pricing hierarchy in line with price strategy
• Inflation tracking and reporting to ensure we pass on price increases in line with the market and call out margin opportunities at product level
• Support sales and trading with pricing intel, provide recommendations at contract or category level
• Support the Price Strategy Manager with Central Pricing Strategy to continuously streamline processes that support internal team and margin
• Tracking of new pricing initiatives to understand the benefits or erosions caused by implemented actions at product or category level
• Work with sales managers and the wider business development team on contract margin drive plans through key line improvements and individual contract deep dives
• Manage the pricing platform, ensuring any errors are corrected, matches are up to date and the right level of detail is appearing on reports. Continuously look for ways to improve reporting and use of data compiled.
• Present to management team weekly on price indexing, calling out threats and opportunities to action
• Value: Provide insight and recommendations to drive value message through competitive and informed pricing
• Build strong relationships with colleagues and Trading Managers to understand daily challenges.
• Work effectively with business counterparts to conceive, specify, pilot and implement analytical applications and tool

• Strong Microsoft Office skills, in particular, excel (intermediate to advanced – ability to use pivots, x/vlookups, graphs, calculations i.e. sum, sumifs, countifs, etc)
• Excellent in analysing large and varied datasets
• Excellent data visualization (Power BI or Tableau)
• Experience of predictive analytics and forecasting techniques
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Insights – ability to derive insight from data and explain to various colleagues
• Strong attention to detail and likes to work cross functionally
• Time management
• Financial analysis and interpretation experience
• Excellent analytical mindset and highly numeric
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• A self-motivated approach to work - can do attitude
• Third level qualification in analytics related subject or related experience preferable
• Ability to work as part of a team as well on own initiative/autonomously