Manager, Gross Profit

UAP Inc.

$80K — $95K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Business degree or related experience with strong accounting/finance component.
  • Minimum 3 years of relevant experience at NAPA.
  • Bilingual in French and English, both written and spoken.
  • Solid understanding of national and regional markets, customers, and competition.
  • Proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel.
  • Familiar with TAMS, especially custom pricing and reporting components.
  • Willingness to travel within Canada (less than 10%).

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of Gross Profit specialists and analysts to devise market strategies that boost sales and profits.
  • Create and manage national standard customer price profiles and regional pricing exceptions based on gross profit standards.
  • Analyze customer's custom pricing versus sales to identify issues, propose solutions, and support management changes to improve margins.
  • Monitor stores' results through report analysis and communicate findings with various management teams.
  • Define, communicate, and oversee the implementation of policies and procedures for managing gross profit margins.
  • Conduct regular market surveys to maintain competitive pricing on both national and regional levels.

Benefits

  • Diverse community that promotes inclusion and respect.
  • Commitment to employment equity and fair hiring practices.
  • Support for applications from women, visible minorities, and people with disabilities.
Full Job Description
Under the supervision Pricing Director, the Gross Profit Manager strives to improve the NAPA Corporate and/or Associate Stores gross profit results. The team lead the analysis, problem-solving and improvement measures of gross profit margins and sales support. The team conduct steady review and analysis of results and involves all management teams in addressing and solving issues. Your responsibilities: • Manage a team of Gross Profit specialist and analyst to help establishing strategies in different market, to increase sales and profits. • Create and manage standard customer price profiles (custom pricing) at a national level as well as the criteria and guidelines for the creation of exceptions at the Regional level based on the gross profit margin standards and methods used at NAPA US. Manage custom pricing exceptions on a national basis; • Analyze individual customer's custom pricing Vs sales, identify problem areas, develop solutions and advise and support Store and District management or Owners to correct problem areas and improve gross profit margins. • Follow-up on results obtained by stores through reports analysis. Communicate results to different management teams. Make recommendations as to best solutions to problems identified to Regional, District, Purchasing and BMA management teams. • Defines, communicate and follow-up on the implementation of policies and procedures related to the management of gross profit margins. Follow-up and support proper implementation of policies, procedures and programs. • Conduct regular market surveys at national and regional level to keep our prices competitive. Qualifications To join our team, you need: • Business degree and/or a combination of education and experience with a strong accounting/finance component. • Minimum 3 years of relevant experience with NAPA. • Excellent communication skills in both French and English, written and spoken. In this role, you will regularly collaborate with internal clients across Canada. • Excellent knowledge of our national and regional markets, of our customers and our competition. • Good knowledge of MS office, especially Excel • Knowledge of TAMS (particularly custom pricing and reports components); • Travel within Canada (under 10%) Additional Information UAP is a diverse community that promotes inclusion and respect. The sum of our individual differences, experiences, knowledge, self-expression, unique capabilities and talents represents the richness of our culture. UAP is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from women, visible minorities and people with disabilities. By valuing a diverse workforce, we ensure that our hiring practices are fair and equitable.

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