Digital and Pricing Associate - Beaumont Service Office

COBURN SUPPLY COMPANY INC•Beaumont, TX

38d•Onsite

About The Position

Position Purpose: As the Digital and Pricing Associate, you will be a member of the Product Information Department and a cross functional customer experience team that delivers new content, features and functionality to enhance our internal and external customer’s digital journey, as well as updating a subset of assigned vendors pricing files. You are passionate about enhancing the end user experience and supporting the company’s overall digital strategy by understanding and supporting the business needs to continually improve our Ecommerce platforms and update supplier price changes and identify new items for content upload by working with the digital product team members. Primary Accountabilities/Responsibilities: Key to this position is to learn both a new Product Information System (InRiver-PIM) and the “SPI” Pricing Software tool (SPI). Assist in maintaining a subset of manufacturer pricing & digital content while ensuring its alignment to our ERP system with standards and best practices as defined through the InRiver PIM & SPI pricing platforms. Manage your time between PIM project work and weekly vendor price updates to complete for buyer approval. Work with buyers and key stakeholders to identify the solutions that meet their needs. Work through buyer to hold vendors accountable to ensure quality standards are met. Make corrections to purchase order costing when advised by buyer. Create new product codes for one off requests. Enter daily corrections to vendor and item pricing for out of cycle requests. Ensure product descriptions are optimized to meet web usability and SEO standards. Responsible for testing and ensuring content is being uploaded and tracked for completeness. Collaborate with business users and technology partners at all levels. Respond to all website errors and review to provide enriched solutions. Create “Quick-Hit” keyword codes sent in by the branches. Mains prompt and regular attendance. Support select buyers with administrative duties & following up with vendors. Assist with reviewing Invoice discrepancies (there is an SOP on this). Help develop a process for following up on purchase orders to constantly update ETA (expected delivery dates in the Mark System. Other support functions to assist buyers as time permits. This list of responsibilities may not be all-inclusive and can be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as needed.

Requirements

Detail-oriented, demonstrated ability to show initiative, good judgment, and resourcefulness.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with business clients on a granular level.
Excel – Intermediate level
Strong Math skills
Strong organizational and time-management skills.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and foster a team-oriented, result driven culture.
Develop business relationships vital to the success of the team.

Responsibilities

Assist in maintaining a subset of manufacturer pricing & digital content while ensuring its alignment to our ERP system with standards and best practices as defined through the InRiver PIM & SPI pricing platforms.
Manage your time between PIM project work and weekly vendor price updates to complete for buyer approval.
Work with buyers and key stakeholders to identify the solutions that meet their needs.
Work through buyer to hold vendors accountable to ensure quality standards are met.
Make corrections to purchase order costing when advised by buyer.
Create new product codes for one off requests.
Enter daily corrections to vendor and item pricing for out of cycle requests.
Ensure product descriptions are optimized to meet web usability and SEO standards.
Responsible for testing and ensuring content is being uploaded and tracked for completeness.
Collaborate with business users and technology partners at all levels.
Respond to all website errors and review to provide enriched solutions.
Create “Quick-Hit” keyword codes sent in by the branches.
Support select buyers with administrative duties & following up with vendors.
Assist with reviewing Invoice discrepancies (there is an SOP on this).
Help develop a process for following up on purchase orders to constantly update ETA (expected delivery dates in the Mark System.
Uploading supplier data/resource files into Product Information System (PIM) that updates the company website based on sales and brand priorities.
Buyer products.
Learn the new PIM and pricing system. Build system knowledge and expertise by participating in training classes and executing project work. Identify opportunities to delegate project work to cross functional partners and track progress.
Manage the process to update a subset of supplier price updates to include all tasks to complete same day.