Meijer
Pricing and Promotion Strategy Analyst
Grand Rapids, MI
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
PythonSQLMachine LearningData AnalysisData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationStatisticsExcelSASSPSSSTATALeadership
About the role
- As a family company, we serve people and communities.
- Meijer Rewards - Weekly pay - Scheduling flexibility - Paid parental leave - Paid education assistance - Team member discount - Development programs for advancement and career growth Please review the job profile below and apply today!
Responsibilities
- Own the deep dive data framework: assemble, merge, and clean item-level pricing history, promotional events, competitive observations, basket penetration, and vendor funding by SKU for assigned category waves.
- Maintain structured data that Strategy Partners use to enter each deep dive, ensuring inputs are current, validated, and item-level before analysis begins.
- Maintain data pipelines across multiple parallel category waves at different stages of the deep dive process.
- Support KVI list expansion and ongoing tier/lever decisions with data analysis on basket penetration, competitive overlap, and price elasticity.
- Partner with Strategy Partners to design, run, and interpret tests validating Elevate assumptions on Archetype IV categories, reporting recommendations to merchant teams.
- Deliver timely, validated analysis and scenario models for Strategy Partners' merchant meetings, pricing events, and AUR gap escalations, quantifying financial impact of promo, base price, or vendor funding changes.
- Build and maintain reusable analytical templates (category workbooks, AUR dashboards, promo summaries) to speed up each new category wave.
- Ability to work with high-volume, multi-source retail data-identifying quality issues, building reproducible data pipelines, and delivering clean outputs on recurring schedules.
- Ability to structure and communicate analytical outputs clearly for Strategy Partner and merchant audiences.
Requirements
- Experience with competitive intelligence data sources (e.g., Nielsen, IRI, competitive web data, or equivalent) and integrating external competitive pricing feeds into internal tracking.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- 2-4 years of experience in pricing analytics, promotional analytics, retail data analysis, or a related role
- experience within a retail pricing, category management, or merchandising analytics function preferred.
- Proficiency in SQL for querying large transactional datasets
- experience with BI or visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Working knowledge of retail pricing concepts such as AUR, promotional lift, elasticity, and margin, and how data connects to pricing and promotional decisions.
- Proficient in statistical analysis software (e.g., SAS, SPSS, Stata, R, Python) required.
- Experience working directly alongside pricing strategists, category managers, or merchant/buying teams in a retail environment.
Compensation
- Own and maintain the Price Architecture Framework (Product Tier × Profile × Lever) for assigned categories as the single source of truth feeding pricing and promo systems, keeping assignments current through annual review and flagging material shifts to Strategy Partners.
- Partner with Pricing Execution to monitor actual AUR against Balance Matrix Profile/Tier targets, advise on adjustments, and feed results into the annual Balance Matrix review.
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Paid education assistance
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