Senior Pricing & Promotions Analyst in Chester House, Epsom Ave, Handforth, Cheadle, Greater Manchester, SK9 3DF

Hybrid role: Handforth office/ WFH

About Us

Pets at Home Group Plc is the UK’s leading pet care business; our commitment is to make sure pets and their owners get the very best advice, products, and care. We have over 450 stores, over 310 Groom Rooms, and 440 First Opinion Vet Practices. Our business is fast-paced, innovative, and fun and it's our people that make the real difference. This is a fantastic opportunity to come and work for an award-winning company that puts people at the very heart of everything they do.

Job Purpose

We are recruiting for a Pricing & Promotions Senior Analyst to join our Pricing and Promotions team on a fixed term 12-month contract at our Support Office in Handforth, Cheshire.

You will be responsible for analysing and reporting our pricing position within the market and working with the wider Commercial team to support the planning and modelling of future price changes and investments, taking into account market position and trends. You’ll also be responsible for analysing promotional performance, working with the Commercial and Trade Planning teams to ensure future promotions are based on sound analysis and previous success.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver timely business updates on pricing performance and analysis of key drivers
• Support the business to achieve price gap targets to key competitors through identification and communication of competitor pricing movements and opportunities within our range.
• Sign off price changes and ensure governance to internal pricing rules.
• Financial modelling of pricing scenarios to support PAH pricing decisions
• Analysis of promotional performance and delivery of key insights to the wider business
• Support Commercial teams and Trade planning to feed promotional analysis insights into future promotional plans.
• Identification of additional improvements to promotional reporting to allow greater understanding of performance
• Support the development of pricing analytics tools to drive continuous improvement
• Regular reviews with 3rd Parties to drive performance, improve accuracy and reduce data errors.

Personal Attributes and Experience:

• Strong Excel and analytics skills.
• Ability to understand and interpret large data sets to draw meaningful conclusions and help shape recommendations.
• Ability to interpret pricing and promotional performance and trials, analysing learnings to inform future decisions.
• Ability to challenge more senior stakeholders. Strong collaboration skills, with experience working cross-functionally.
• Ability to work in complex and ambiguous situations, forward thinking with a flexible approach, constantly seeking improvements.
• A passionate team player with strong interpersonal skills
• You must be well organised and can prioritise your workload and you will have good interpersonal skills and confidence.
• Previous analytical experience in a large company, in a research/price benchmarking role ideally within an FMCG or retail environment is desirable (but not essential).

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours we want to hear from you!