Jr. Pricing Analyst

Sprout•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

About The Position

Sprout is hiring a Pricing Analyst to provide fast, defensible fair market value pricing for customer equipment lists, supporting its Business Development, Outbound Sales, Product Sales, and Ecommerce teams. Sprout is a global IT hardware retirement provider serving hyperscaler and enterprise clients, with services covering IT Asset Disposition, Certified Destruction, and Responsible Recycling. The role owns pricing for inbound equipment lists across laptops, mobile devices, server infrastructure, and components such as RAM, storage, CPUs, and GPUs. It tracks secondary-market demand, resale prices, and supply trends; supports ecommerce pricing decisions as market conditions and inventory change; and improves pricing speed and consistency through reusable processes, Excel models, and AI tools such as Claude. The analyst works with Sales, Operations, and Finance to streamline pricing workflows and reports market trends to sales leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree preferred, ideally in finance, economics, business analytics, or a related field.
At least 2 years of experience in an analytical role supporting a sales organization.
Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, XLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH, SUMIFS, conditional formatting, data validation, and building clean, reusable models.
Hands-on, daily use of Claude or similar AI tools for analysis and research; applicants should bring an example of how they used such tools to save time.
Working knowledge of IT hardware, including the ability to read a spec sheet and distinguish hardware specifications such as i7 versus i5 processors and H100 versus A100 GPUs.
Strong organization and a track record of meeting tight, overlapping deadlines.
Clear written communication skills, including the ability to explain a valuation and its assumptions to a seller in a few sentences.
High attention to detail, given that an incorrect model number can substantially affect a quote.
Proven record of strong academic or professional performance.

Nice To Haves

Experience in ITAD, IT reselling, refurbishment, or secondary-market hardware trading.
Familiarity with pricing sources and marketplaces such as eBay sold listings, Amazon, Back Market, and wholesale broker channels.
Understanding of device grading (A/B/C/D), testing results, and how condition affects value.
Knowledge of data center equipment value drivers, including CPU generation, core count, memory density, drive type, and GPU model.
SQL, Power Query, or BI tool experience, such as Metabase or Power BI, for extracting and analyzing historical sales data.
Basic understanding of how logistics, processing, and data-destruction costs affect net asset value.

Responsibilities

Analyze inbound customer and partner equipment lists and deliver fair market value pricing to the Business Development team on tight turnaround times.
Value laptops, mobile devices, server infrastructure, and components including RAM, storage, CPUs, and GPUs.
Clean and normalize equipment lists with inconsistent model names, missing specifications, and mixed condition grades before pricing.
Account for condition, configuration, age, and quantity, and identify assets with negligible or negative value that should be recycled only.
Follow up on open quotes internally and with customers and partners until they close or expire.
Monitor secondary-market demand, resale prices, and supply trends across IT technology categories.
Track events affecting prices, including product launches, OEM end-of-life announcements, operating system lifecycle dates, and AI-driven demand for GPUs and high-memory servers.
Contact buyers of niche or specialty equipment to gather real-world pricing information.
Publish a monthly market update and report core-product pricing trends to sales leadership.
Compare quoted values with actual resale results and use the differences to improve future pricing.
Support the Product Sales team with daily orders and customer pricing requests.
Partner with the Ecommerce leader on market trends, top-selling platforms, and inventory velocity.
Adjust Ecommerce asset pricing in response to market conditions and aging inventory.
Own and maintain Sprout's pricing data so sellers use current numbers.
Build repeatable Excel models, templates, and reference tables to reduce quote turnaround time.
Use Claude and other AI tools to speed up list cleanup, research, and analysis, and help teammates use them.
Work with Sales, Operations, and Finance to streamline the end-to-end pricing workflow.