The Role: Senior Analyst, Pricing & Promotions
Reporting to the Director, Pricing & Promotions, the Senior Analyst, Pricing & Promotions is responsible for providing advanced pricing and promotional analytics to support informed decision-making across Rexall's Front Store business, driving optimized pricing strategies, promotional effectiveness, margin performance, and competitive positioning.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Analyze regular retail pricing, competitive price gaps, and price indices to support pricing strategy decisions and maintain market competitiveness.
- Evaluate pricing actions using elasticity analysis, scenario modeling, and test-and-learn approaches to improve margin and profitability.
- Conduct pre- and post-promotional analysis to assess sales lift, margin impact, cannibalization, and halo effects.
- Assess promotional mechanics including depth, timing, duration, and funding mix to improve promotional ROI.
- Develop and maintain standardized dashboards, scorecards, and reporting to provide ongoing visibility to pricing and promotional performance.
- Translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Partner with Category Management, Pricing, Finance, Loyalty, Marketing, Supply Chain, and IT teams to support enterprise initiatives.
- Support enhancements to pricing and promotional tools, including UAT, system changes, and process improvements.
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring analytics and improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of insights.
- Act as a subject-matter expert for pricing and promotional analytics, proactively identifying risks, trends, and opportunities
Knowledge, skills and experience:
- 5-7+ years of progressive experience in pricing, promotions, or commercial analytics.
- Retail experience required; drug, grocery, or mass retail experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience influencing senior stakeholders through data-driven insights.
- Advanced Excel skills including financial modeling, scenario analysis, and large data sets.
- Strong experience with data warehouses, SQL, BI tools, and analytical methodologies.
- Ability to design and interpret KPIs, dashboards, and analytical frameworks.
- Strong financial and retail acumen with an understanding of pricing and margin dynamics.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- High attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Self-directed, accountable, and collaborative with the ability to work independently.
- Post-secondary education in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
Context and Environment:
The job holder must be able to interpret merchandising needs, translate them into space planning activities and relate it back to the store environment. Fast paced environment and changing business needs that require an excellent understanding of the JDA Category Management Suite with the ability to facilitate change and to be creative. Must be able to prioritize and work on many projects simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines in order to achieve desired results.
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