Merchandising Analyst

Responsible for deriving data-driven, actionable insights that contribute to the overall productivity of Whole Foods stores. Supports Merchandising strategic planning and direction setting by ensuring the best analytical practices and techniques are used to provide recommendations that improve promotional performance at WFM. Drives sales and operational efficiencies through effective evaluation of promotion and merchandising performance. Contributes to analysis and development of improvement recommendations for space and assortment planning, space management, and related processes in support of various Merchandising and Marketing initiatives.

Pricing Execution Analyst - Whole Foods Market

In this role, you will advance the pricing execution function at Whole Foods Market, shaping processes and developing tools to support the execution of Regular, Sale, and Markdown pricing following the highest standards of precision and accuracy.

Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate would:

• Engage with Category Pricing and Pricing Execution Team Members in the development and support of Price Creation Tools, workflows and processes.
• Get subject matter expertise on pricing steps in the category pricing processes, in order to define use cases, scenarios, test cases etc.
• Be knowledgeable in the underlying data inputs such as cost, comp, current price, elasticity, etc., to be able to reproduce issues, explain user requirements and perform user demos.
• Lead meetings for pricing tool specific User Acceptance Testing, bug resolution, feature understanding with Category Pricing Analysts and Merchant Users.
• Facilitate detailed communication with internal and external tool partners to resolve issues or future enhancements.
• Create and maintain user documentation, training, and SOPs for Pricing Products, tools, and processes.
• Support, help develop, and test analytical tools to better utilize regular pricing, promotion, and other merchandising levers that drive top and bottom line, traffic, conversion, and loyalty.
• Perform routine data analyses, integrating and evaluating data to derive merchandising-related insights.

Ideal candidates embody a mix of hard and soft skills, with the ability to dive into data and effectively communicate with non-technical business partners. Qualifications include analytical proficiency, retail experience, and exceptional communication skills.

Skills:

• Demonstrates analytical skills and business knowledge, with an emphasis on understanding of store operations and customer impact.
• Able to organize and prioritize day to day tasks alongside longer term projects.
• Integrates trends, data and information into current team processes and makes recommendations to leadership for continuous improvement.
• Ability to understand processes that business partners use, to make informed decisions.
• Communicates effectively with all types of audiences.
• Demonstrates interpersonal communication skills and levels of tact, diplomacy and confidentiality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to play a key and influential role working with others, in groups, in cross-functional settings and with diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
• Models WFM principles and core values and embodies a commitment to customer service.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent retail experience.
• 2-4 years of retail, analysis, and analytics experience.
• Experience with third-party pricing software preferred.
• Familiarity with SQL, Alteryx, and database reporting.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Strong work ethic, self-starting mentality, and a positive attitude.

At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Whole Foods Market hires and promotes individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs.Whole Foods Market works with job sites like Indeed, LinkedIn, and ZipRecruiter to promote opportunities at our company. Please be aware that other career sites may not be accurate or up to date and may even be fraudulent. We encourage and recommend all candidates to apply via our site.