Pricing & Promotions Analyst

Maurices•Duluth, MN

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Pricing & Promotions Analyst is the connective tissue for maurices' omni-channel promotions. The role analyzes how promotions perform, maintains and communicates the promotional calendar, and builds the reporting and planning tools teams use to plan, execute and evaluate promotions. It combines analysis with collaboration, working with Planning, Merchandising, Marketing, Visual, Store Operations and Field teams to turn data into clear recommendations they can act on.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required
Minimum of 3-5 years of professional work experience, with 2+ years in an analytical role required
Strong experience with Excel
Experience with reporting tools (MicroStrategy or similar)
Curious mindset and enjoys solving complex problems
Self-starter who takes initiative and follows through with minimal oversight, and knows when to bring others in
Strong organizational and analytical skills
Highly detail-oriented
Solid understanding of retail math, calculations and formulas
Excellent communication skills; comfortable leading conversations across diverse teams
Ability to synthesize data in an easily digestible way
Ability to quickly adapt to changing business priorities
Ability to collaborate with others to maximize business process and drive financial results

Nice To Haves

Experience in Pricing/Promotions, Planning or retail preferred
Proven experience using data to drive decisions
Experience building reporting or planning tools preferred
Prior experience in a fast paced, dynamic environment preferred
Experience using AI or automation tools to improve analysis or workflow efficiency preferred

Responsibilities

Analyzes how past promotions performed and makes recommendations for future ones
Uses multiple tools and reports (Strategy, Excel promotional recap files, etc.) to evaluate performance, inventory levels and historical trends
Partners in strategic promotional discussions with Planning, Merchandising, Marketing, Visual, Store Operations and Field, bringing a data-backed point of view
Helps create pricing and promotion recaps, including requests for regular price and/or clearance price changes
Asks the right questions, digs into the data and finds insights that lead to better decisions
Maintains the omni-channel promotional calendar and communicates updates to all channels
Gathers all needed information from cross-functional partners so the calendar is complete and accurate
Attends key in-season promotional meetings and follows communication updates so the calendar runs as intended
Identifies promotional issues, escalates them, and works with partners to resolve them
Builds reporting and planning tools that help teams judge promotional effectiveness, inventory position and historical trends
Develops simple input tools that make it easier for planning and execution teams to work together and move quickly
Identifies process pain points, escalates them, and recommends improvements
Uses AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to automate recurring reporting, speed up analysis and simplify promotional workflows, and validates AI-generated output against source data
Understands the merchandise product hierarchy and the inclusion/exclusion needs of promotional offers
Supports key promotional processes (for example, store sale direction and inclusion/exclusion files) as business needs require
May be cross-trained to help with promotional setup and testing as needed

Benefits

Choice of three medical plans, including a PPO plan or High-Deductible plans
Health Savings Account, with employer contribution (with High-Deductible plans)
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent Care)
Accident coverage
Critical Illness coverage
Hospital Indemnity coverage
Voluntary Life Insurance
Spouse Life Insurance
Child Life Insurance
Long-Term Disability coverage
Basic Life Insurance (at no cost to associates)
Short-Term Disability coverage (at no cost to associates)
Wellbeing platform with Personify Health
Employee Assistance Program available for associates and their families
401(k) with an immediately vested Safe Harbor matching contribution (eligible after 6 months of employment)
Tuition Assistance program (available after 1 year of employment)
PTO benefits, including vacation (with accrual or flexible options based on role)
Annual sick time awards
Holiday pay
Two weeks of New Parent Leave for birth, adoption, or foster placement
Continuous opportunities for learning
Connection building through Associate Resource Groups
Free access to a state-of-the-art onsite Fitness Facility (for Duluth based associates)