Pricing Analyst III

Kum & Go’s team is expanding, and we need you! Are you an experienced Pricing Analyst looking for your next challenge?

The Pricing Analyst III partners with the Category Management teams to develop pricing strategies and implement pricing tactics that drive incremental sales and profit.  This role will co-develop and deploy promotional strategies and tactics within our Kum & Go organization. Some key responsibilities of this role include creating, updating, and optimizing pricing recommendations aligned with Kum & Go’s pricing strategies, and is responsible for effectively utilizing Kum & Go’s price optimization system, identifying enhancement needs and opportunities, and supporting their implementation.

What You’ll Do:

• Perform in-depth analysis of historical and planned pricing-activity, utilizing insights from the analysis to recommend both chainwide and localized pricing adjustments
• Identify, initiate, and lead changes in pricing strategies and tactics through analysis, insights, leadership, and influence
• Monitor and report on pricing KPIs and pricing results
• Communicate pricing updates to Support and Operations Teams ensuring clarity, understanding, buy-in, and successful implementation
• Complete competitive market rate studies, analyze results, identify, and lead action items
• Support pricing related projects and process improvement activities as well as the ongoing enhancements to the pricing optimization systems and tools
• Maintain strong relationships internal stakeholders and build trust by proactively providing credible and value-added insights, recommendations, and rationale

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven ability to facilitate and organize multiple tasks with varied priorities
• Experience with databases, spreadsheets, and Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• High attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong customer service orientation
• Comfortable with a faster than average pace and frequent changing environment

Other key requirements

• Strong background in pricing management/financial analysis in retail or service industries
• Experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace
• Experience with trade promotion, retail performance and profitability analysis
• Relocation to Des Moines, IA required

Leadership Competencies:

• Communication: Delivers clear, effective communication and listens to others
• Conceptual/Systems Thinking: Recognizes patterns, trends, themes, and connections in information to develop innovative ideas and solutions
• Constructive Engagement: Expresses ideas and disagreements, constructively resolves conflict, and encourages others to do the same
• Customer Orientation: Meets the expectations and needs of internal and external customers
• Decision Making: Makes good decisions in a timely manner
• Empowerment: Takes initiative and solves problems
• Talent Development: Maximizes potential and improves overall performance
• Influence: Proactively builds relationships and influences others
• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Accurately assesses problems and effectively and efficiently arrives at solutions
• Strategic Thinking: Understands the current state and can visualize the ideal state and how to achieve it

About Kum & Go

At Kum & Go, our purpose is to make days better. We do that by connecting with people. Every day, whether in stores or at our Store Support Center office, we take a people-first approach to developing associates, serving customers, and solving problems. We provide a unique working experience where our associates are given the opportunity to make connections and to have fun along the way. Our culture is supported by our five core values:

• Passion - We love what we do, and it shows in our work
• Integrity - We do the right thing, even when it is difficult
• Teamwork - We believe that greatness is only achieved in unity
• Caring - We have genuine compassion for our customers, associates, families, and communities
• Excellence - We expect and deliver superior performance

Established in Hampton, Iowa in 1959, Kum & Go is a fourth-generation, family-owned convenience store chain providing a fresh perspective by meeting customers where they are and offering them the choices they deserve. For over 60 years, the company has been dedicated to sharing 10% of all profits back to the communities it serves. The chain is growing, employing more than 5,000 associates in more than 400 stores in 13 states with expansion into two new markets (Boise, Idaho & Detroit, MI) planned for 2023-2024.

Kum & Go believes in People First. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer building a culture of equity and inclusion.

Salary : $39,000 - $49,400