Sr Analyst Everyday Pricing Insights Activation- Baby

The pay range is $71,000.00 - $128,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.?Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.?Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at .

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A role with the Pricing & Promotion Center of Excellence (COE) means you're on a mission with merchants to develop enterprise-wide pricing and promotion strategies. Your work will impact millions of dollars in the form of everyday retail prices, promotional strategy and effectiveness, clearance management and competitive pricing. Here, you'll be a key business consultant to merchants and develop relationships with buyers, senior buyers and leaders. Your strong partnership with Marketing will bring offers to life for guests, and you'll also work closely with Store Operations, Finance and other key support areas.

As an Everyday Pricing Insights Analyst in Target's Pricing & Promotions Center of Excellence, you play an integral role working beside buyers, planners, and promotional planning teams. You will own the pricing decisions for a set of categories and develop pricing insights by assessing competitive, financial and guest data relating to our pricing performance.? You will activate against these insights with a broad set of partners including our Pricing Strategy teams, Global Pricing Operations, Data Sciences, and Product teams, across the Pricing & Promotions COE, in addition to partnering with core Merchandising teams.? You will bring these insights to life in the following ways :

Own pricing decisions and investment opportunities for a set of categories within frequency businesses in Essentials & Beauty.

Regularly review your category's price position in the marketplace with buyers, planners, and promo planning teams.

Weekly assessment and response to changes in the competitive and business environments to ensure that Target maintains strong everyday price position.

Market intelligence summaries of strategic pricing changes implemented by key competitors?

Maintain a Pricing Playbook for each division, key seasons, and bring data-driven recommendations that improve our future price position and / or financial results.

Delivery of objectives tied to captainships which improve the performance of the global Everyday Pricing and Competitive Retail Intelligence teams

Lead weekly competitive promo and pricing routines for top sales driving items in key seasons.

To achieve these goals, you will engage in several activities including, but not limited to :

Influence pricing outcomes by building strong, trusted relationships with merchants, strategy & planning teams, pricing product teams, and operations.

Developing and prioritizing action plans to improve KPI metrics via a blend of short-term countermeasures and long-term solutions

Using domain expertise to determine the most effective data sources to improve pricing performance, inclusive of multiple internal reporting tools, 3rd party insights platforms, or acquisition of data through field studies

Using economic and pricing strategies to improve gross margin performance and price perception

Creating compelling problem statements and business cases to support and advance our pricing strategy

Assessing and balancing stakeholder interests in managing price competitiveness vs gross margin

Providing subject matter expertise on pricing capabilities

Minimum requirements :

4-year degree or equivalent work experience

2-5 years of professional work experience

Demonstrated peer leadership and decision-making skills

Ability to influence others through data and insights

Strong interpersonal skills and ability to maximize relationships

Strategic orientation and comfort with ambiguity

Strong data analysis skills

Ability to manipulate data in Excel

Strong financial acumen

Self-starter, ability to work independently

Desired Requirements :

Understanding of Merchandising Product Lifecycle or prior experience on a merchandising team

Microeconomic and Pricing concepts in theory and application

This position will operate as a Hybrid / Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid / Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

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