Senior Analyst, Marketplace - Pricing

Walmart•Mississauga, ON

1d•CA$74,000 - CA$101,750•Onsite

About The Position

This role drives third-party seller success through effective pricing strategies and competitive market analysis, ensuring accurate pricing intelligence, and fostering collaboration within the organization. Key responsibilities include managing pricing dashboards and reporting, developing pricing strategies, and supporting business solutions. This role focuses on driving third-party seller success through the creation and management of effective pricing strategies and competitive analysis across multiple channels. Responsibilities include developing a comprehensive pricing communication strategy to deliver critical insights, share market intelligence, enable onboarding training, and drive seller success. This involves maintaining pricing dashboards and reporting tools, ensuring all pricing data is accurate and up-to-date, issuing regular pricing reports to stakeholders, and coordinating competitive price pulls to support events and promotional activities. The role will work closely with the Pricing team, Account Management teams, and Seller Success teams to improve key metrics including Meat/Beat Score vs. Market (% of impressions on products that are tied or winning vs. best market price) and Impression Coverage % (% of impressions that have a market price match). Additionally, the role will collaborate with Product teams to ensure that Seller pricing tools are effective and drive competitive positioning. The candidate will supply pricing data to Events teams and Account teams to ensure promotional events are competitively priced. The ideal candidate possesses outstanding analytical and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with various partners. Demonstrating knowledge of pricing dynamics, competitive analysis, business communication styles, situational awareness, and interpersonal skills is essential. This role requires the ability to organize thoughts, communicate credibly and concisely, present to and influence team members and business partners, and utilize relevant data to articulate results and provide recommendations. Strong partnership and collaboration skills are also essential, including stakeholder identification, analysis, engagement techniques, and management effectiveness tools. The candidate will periodically engage with team members and stakeholders, analyze their needs, and share relevant information to accomplish business goals. A solid understanding of industry, environmental, and economic factors, global business strategy, and business management practices across multiple domains is necessary. The role may involve gathering and analyzing reports for pricing and assortment management, understanding pricing performance metrics, and demonstrating concepts associated with competitive pricing in the retail industry. Proficiency in digital literacy and analytics, including data analysis techniques, visualization tools, pricing analytics, and the preparation of business analysis reports, is required. The candidate will leverage data analysis tools to explore data, develop hypotheses, and present insights to influence strategic work. Financial forecasting and modeling skills are essential, including generating standard reports on pricing trends, understanding financial modeling techniques, and participating in the preparation of short-term forecasts. The role involves extracting data from databases, creating data pipelines, transforming data into usable sets, and customizing data for multiple audiences. The candidate will develop knowledge of current data transformation processes and ensure data quality and customization techniques align with reporting goals.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Analytics, or a related field
2-4 years of experience in pricing, competitive analysis, or a related analytical role, preferably at an ecommerce company
Demonstrated experience with pricing strategy, competitive intelligence, and market analysis
Strong proficiency in data analysis tools (Excel, SQL, Tableau, or similar visualization platforms)
Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights and recommendations
Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams to take action based on insights and recommendations
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present findings to diverse audiences
Experience with dashboard creation, reporting automation, and data pipeline management
Self-starter with strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Outstanding analytical and communication skills
Ability to collaborate effectively with various partners
Knowledge of pricing dynamics, competitive analysis, business communication styles, situational awareness, and interpersonal skills
Ability to organize thoughts, communicate credibly and concisely, present to and influence team members and business partners, and utilize relevant data to articulate results and provide recommendations
Strong partnership and collaboration skills, including stakeholder identification, analysis, engagement techniques, and management effectiveness tools
Solid understanding of industry, environmental, and economic factors, global business strategy, and business management practices across multiple domains
Proficiency in digital literacy and analytics, including data analysis techniques, visualization tools, pricing analytics, and the preparation of business analysis reports
Leverages data analysis tools to explore data, develop hypotheses, and present insights to influence strategic work
Financial forecasting and modeling skills, including generating standard reports on pricing trends, understanding financial modeling techniques, and participating in the preparation of short-term forecasts.

Nice To Haves

Experience in ecommerce or marketplace pricing
Familiarity with competitive pricing tools and market intelligence platforms
Knowledge of seller-side pricing dynamics and marketplace economics
Experience with A/B testing or experimental design for pricing strategies

Responsibilities

Drives third-party seller success through the creation and management of effective pricing strategies and competitive analysis across multiple channels.
Develops a comprehensive pricing communication strategy to deliver critical insights, share market intelligence, enable onboarding training, and drive seller success.
Maintains pricing dashboards and reporting tools, ensuring all pricing data is accurate and up-to-date.
Issues regular pricing reports to stakeholders.
Coordinates competitive price pulls to support events and promotional activities.
Works closely with the Pricing team, Account Management teams, and Seller Success teams to improve key metrics including Meat/Beat Score vs. Market and Impression Coverage %.
Collaborates with Product teams to ensure that Seller pricing tools are effective and drive competitive positioning.
Supplies pricing data to Events teams and Account teams to ensure promotional events are competitively priced.
Gathers and analyzes reports for pricing and assortment management.
Extracts data from databases, creates data pipelines, transforms data into usable sets, and customizes data for multiple audiences.
Develops knowledge of current data transformation processes and ensures data quality and customization techniques align with reporting goals.