Pricing Analyst

Aston Carter•Calgary, AB

10d•CA$25 - CA$30•Onsite

About The Position

Aston Carter's major client in Calgary is seeking a Pricing Analyst to join their team! The Pricing Analyst will play a key role in setting up, implementing, and maintaining purchase and sales pricing structures to ensure accurate, compliant, and competitive pricing across the business. This role supports procurement, sales, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and compliance teams by managing item records, taxes and environmental fees, and vendor programs while maintaining strong data integrity and robust reporting. The position offers significant exposure to complex pricing methodologies, enterprise systems, and cross-functional projects in a growing organization.

Requirements

2+ years of pricing or ecommerce experience (supply chain, inventory control, data analytics, category management)
Intermediate MS Excel skills
Bachelors degree (Economics, Business, Accounting or Communications, SCM) OR College

Nice To Haves

Profit 21 or Oracle Software experience
Large ERP experience
Customer Service Experience

Responsibilities

Learn and apply the purchase pricing methodology to accurately set up and maintain special pricing on purchase orders for the procurement team, ensuring invoice versus purchase order matching requirements from accounts payable are considered.
Assist in maintaining the overall purchase pricing structure, including pricing libraries and books, and implement and manage special pricing by supplier and by item through price pages.
Learn and understand the sales pricing methodology used for each customer and customer segment, and assist in updating and maintaining sales pricing structures as customer needs evolve.
Create and maintain all sales price pages required to implement multiple price layers, including markups, promotional discounts, volume discounts, special pricing programs, and, where applicable, tobacco tax, to ensure accurate customer pricing.
Process new item setup requests in accordance with business and compliance processes, including managing required forms, timelines, approvals, and customer cross-references for internal systems and external customer head offices where applicable.
Maintain key components within item records such as units of measure, product groups, and tax groups, and support the procurement team with maintaining remaining item details and troubleshooting issues as they arise.
Assist in maintaining customer item assortments by managing item restrictions to ensure appropriate product access by customer or customer segment, based on legal requirements and proprietary products such as private label items.
Maintain restrictive classes on item records and customer files and align product access with visibility on customer order guides, collaborating with sales teammates to implement solutions that meet both customer and internal needs.
Maintain taxes and environmental handling charges and their rates by item or item category and purchase location, and configure and manage landed cost drivers, tax drivers, driver categories, driver classes, and manufacturing classes.
Collaborate with accounts payable and procurement to resolve discrepancies between vendor invoices and purchase orders related to taxes, fees, and landed costs.
Maintain and update sales taxes and environmental handling charges by item for each applicable province, grouping taxes and fees into tax groups for regions with common application rules.
Maintain tax groups on customer records by location and manage eco-fee maintenance by item for all applicable provinces, working with accounts receivable to resolve tax discrepancies between invoicing and customer payments.
Support vendor and supplier record maintenance by partnering with procurement and accounts payable to understand vendor requirements, supplier terms, freight implementation, and fee collection, and ensure proper linkage of vendor and supplier records to item records.
Assist with the upkeep of reporting tools, dashboards, and trackers to maintain accurate pricing records and support pricing data integrity, including data validation within the ERP system and related reporting.
Conduct regular pricing, tax, fee, product, vendor, and system audits to identify errors, gaps, or required updates on a daily, weekly, monthly, or ad hoc basis, including daily audits for cost changes, tax changes, and discount programs, and maintain an audit log for remaining audits.
Assist with the renewal and maintenance of applicable licenses and support audits for regulated product groups such as medical devices, tobacco, dangerous goods, and other controlled categories.
Maintain and audit the Safety Data Sheet library to ensure all required documentation is current, complete, and compliant.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate pricing-related requests and requirements, including compliance approvals and implementation of customer and vendor agreements or contracts.
Support inter-departmental projects by providing pricing responses and processes for initiatives such as contract bids, renewals, and special pricing programs.
Identify opportunities to develop new processes or improve existing internal pricing department processes, adapting to new business requirements and changes in legislation, regulation, or SOX compliance requirements.
Create and maintain clear process documentation and participate in cross-training with pricing teammates to ensure consistency, knowledge sharing, and best practices across the team.
Demonstrate a customer-driven attitude by supporting all departments, handling sensitive information with confidentiality and discretion, and promoting transparency and due diligence in decision-making and communication.