Contract: Permanent
Salary: c£25,000 - £30,000 p/a depending on experience
Location: Hybrid - 50% home and 50% office based at either Willenhall (West Midlands) or Talbot Green (South Wales)
Hours: Monday - Friday 9am-5pm (Some flexibility is possible, if pre-agreed)
We have an exciting new opportunity to join our growing SPAR Pricing Team as a Category Pricing Analyst, working within our Proposition Department. We’re after someone who is proactive, motivated and passionate about their role, whilst offering excellent service and standards to our customers.
Responsible for your own categories, you will work closely with our SPAR trading team to ensure your category’s application of our pricing strategy. While supporting the Pricing Manager in the development & deployment of our pricing strategy across our business divisions.
You will be a data expert, using data from multiple sources to; model the impact of proposed pricing activity, give clarity on our pricing position against the market whilst monitoring the impact of price changes on sales & profitability. Using this data to identify opportunities increase sales & margin though price change or optimisations to price rule sets.
Key Accountabilities

• Maintenance of our pricing tool, ensuring accuracy & stability of data.
  
• Use competitor pricing data to give a clear and concise overview of our current position & customers perception of price.
  
• Ongoing analysis of sales & margin performance, using credible insights & data to make recommendations, highlighting opportunities and potential problem areas for the business.
  
• Understand the impact of price changes on customer, performance & wider business metrics.
  
• Analyse promotional activity in your categories, using learnings to develop & refine future activity.
  
• Understand our customers behaviours to drive consumer led thinking and decision making within the business.
  
• Support stakeholders across the business as the ‘Go To’ expert for all pricing matters in your area.
  Some Key requirements
  
• Ideal candidate will have experience in a similar pricing role with experience handling and interpreting complex data sets into actionable insights
  
• Previous experience in a retail business, multi-channel exposure is a benefit
  
• Experience using Power BI is desirable
  
• Advanced user of Excel
  
• Strong analytical skillset & commercially aware
  
• Strong communicator
  
• Good problem solver, willing to look for new ways of working to improve output & overcome challenges
  A.F. Blakemore & Son Ltd is one of the largest privately owned companies in the UK. Our forward-thinking family-owned business began life in 1917 as a counter-service grocery store and has grown from these humble beginnings into a company that now owns 260 SPAR convenience stores and employs more than 7,000 people, with a turnover of £1.3 billion. As one of the largest convenience retailers in the UK, we are always looking for innovative ways to create a point of difference. Food and drink have always been our lifeblood, and today our business has multiple divisions specialising in retail, food service and wholesale distribution.
  What's in it for you?
  
• Holiday, Maternity and Paternity leave and pay in excess of statutory entitlements
  
• Develop your skills and capability in a highly supportive and multi-diverse culture
  
• Outstanding Training & Development
  
• Generous staff discount in all our SPAR stores (excl. Alcohol & Cigarettes)
  
• Proactive promotion of internal candidates
  
• Paid Breaks
  
• Free Tea & Coffee
  
• Early access to your pay through ‘EarlyPay’
  
• 24/7 access to your payslips and Rotas via HR/Payroll portal
  
• Wellbeing support – access to emotional support, counselling, legal and financial advice
  
• Company Pension Scheme
  
• NEST pension scheme
  
• Company Life Insurance worth 1 x Annual Salary and 6 x Annual Salary with Company Pension Scheme
  
• Extra Holidays - Purchase Scheme
  
• Cycle to work - Bicycle purchase scheme
  
• Long Service Awards
  Please download the job description for more information.
  Inclusive environment: as a Disability Confident Committed employer we are dedicated to creating a fair, inclusive workplace for all. We offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
  You may have experience in the following roles: Pricing Analyst, Category Analyst, Data Analyst, Retail Analyst, Business Analyst, Commercial Analyst, Category Manager, Revenue Management Analyst, Merchandising Analyst, Financial Analyst, Market Research Analyst, Pricing Coordinator, Inventory Analyst, Supply Chain Analyst, etc.
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