The Pricing Analyst - Contract Role plays a key role in supporting the execution of pricing and product data updates across multiple systems and sales channels. This position is responsible for executing price changes, maintaining accurate documentation, and ensuring pricing accuracy through audits and reporting including Store PDFs. This is a 4-month contract position.
Price Change Creation
- Prepare bulk upload files using Choice Lists, Reprice Files, and Unit Letter (UL) Validation Lists.
- Submit bulk uploads to the Jesta system for pricing and product updates.
- Manually key in price changes when bulk uploads are not required, includes off cadence requests and MAP violations.
- Follow up with stakeholders to obtain necessary approvals for price changes.
- Process product and pricing updates in Jesta, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Validate price change content and markdown (markup) dollar totals.
- Conduct spot checks to verify that price changes have been executed correctly.
- Process and obtain approvals for Drop Ship price changes.
Reporting & Documentation
- Run and distribute price change reports for reprices and unit letters.
- Create store-specific PDFs for price changes as needed for reprices, unit letters, and events.
- File completed price change PDFs for documentation and audit purposes.
Data Integrity
- Validate attribute accuracy
- Prepare & process bulk uploads as needed for attribute updates.
- Process Hierarchy changes.
- Process Tax Code changes
Exclusion Management
- Update Akeneo for exclusions for MAP and Events.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Retail, or a related field
- 1–2 years of experience in retail operations, data entry, or administrative support preferred.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in data handling.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with data file formats (e.g., CSV, XLSX).
- Experience with retail systems such as Jesta or similar ERP/PIM systems is a plus.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong organizational and communication skills.
- Comfortable working independently and as part of a team.
- Basic analytical skills and the ability to spot discrepancies in data.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Retail, or a related field
- 1-2 years of experience in retail operations, data entry, or administrative support
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in data handling
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with CSV and XLSX file formats
- Experience with retail systems such as Jesta or similar ERP/PIM systems
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Comfortable working independently and as part of a team
- Basic analytical skills and ability to spot discrepancies in data
What We Do
Designer Brands is one of North America’s largest designers, producers and retailers of footwear and accessories that operates retail concepts. Our primary concept, DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, offers brand name and designer dress, casual and athletic footwear and accessories. The first store opened in 1991 in Dublin, Ohio. Today, DSW operates more than 500 stores in 44 states. The Affiliated Business Group operates nearly 290 leased departments for other retailers, such as Stein Mart, in the U.S. Designer Brands also operates several retail concepts in Canada, including The Shoe Company and Shoe Warehouse, which provide a convenient footwear solution for the whole family, as well as DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse – nearly 150 locations in all. In 2018, the company acquired Camuto Group, the legendary product design and brand development organization best known for the successful Vince Camuto® brand and the footwear licenses of Jessica Simpson® and Lucky Brand®. The partnership transformed Designer Brands into one of the largest footwear companies in North America with global, industry-leading capabilities in product design, development, sourcing and production.
