Pricing Analyst

Trophy Foods is Canada's leading supplier of high-quality edible nuts, dried fruit and confectionery products. We pride ourselves on providing the highest quality products, at the best value, through our direct channel of global grower relationships.

Trophy Foods Inc. is Canadian owned and operated with over 40 years of experience in serving our customers. We produce edible nuts, dried fruits, confectionery and bulk foods under our Trophy brand. We also work with grocery retailers, mass merchandisers, drug channel, and food service customers across the country to create and produce a wide variety of private label branded products.

Overview: The Pricing Analyst contributes to the overall strategy of the organization by scrutinizing, tracking, analyzing, and interpreting costing requests for new and existing business. The Pricing Analyst will play a key role as a cross-functional team member working with sales, marketing and finance counterparts to track, prioritize and cost new and existing business. The Pricing analyst will also work closely with commercial finance, support post launch reviews and innovation tracking and have a dotted line to the Sr. Finance Analyst, Procurement.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Synthesize complex or diverse information; collect and work with cross functional teams to analyze data and translate it into information that can be used to make decisions.

Support Sr. Finance Analyst, Procurement in creating, reviewing, and analyzing costing requests with short turnaround times.

Create costing models/tools to support cross-functional business decisions (i.e. product development costing tool)

Support Revenue Manager in maintaining a centralized database to house all pricing related historical information, including contracts, conditions, trade spend programs, and the impact of various changes over time.

Liaison between Commercial Finance and Procurement Finance to understand customer profitability changes due to evolving market impacts and commodity changes.

Work closely with the master data team to ensure that Bill of Material updates identified due to change in business requirements are updated in a timely manner.

Perform data accumulation and analysis for Requests for Quotations (RFQs). Support Category Management strategies and develop plans for long term cost savings/mitigation strategies.

Provide cross-functional support to various teams to drive efficient decision making based on analytical results.

Other duties as assigned.

Experience, Qualifications, and Educational Requirements:

Post-secondary education or equivalent experience (business or engineering preferred) with a minimum of 2 years’ experience – ideally in the field of Commercial Finance or Costing

Prior experience working in a Financial Operational role within the food industry.

Advanced knowledge of Excel required.

Experience with JDE / HUBBLE insight software considered an asset.

Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills.

Excellent communication skills – both written & verbal.

Ability to build strong relationships with business partners and to act in a consulting capacity.

Ability to work with extremely detailed information and analyze its impact on both a macro and micro scale.

Experience working as part of a cross functional team and collaborating with business stakeholders.

Capacity to remain flexible, agile and adaptable while delivering results especially in pressure situations.

Strong customer service focus.

Driven and motivated by continuous improvement.

Accountabilities for Success:

Collaborate and partner with others through building appropriate rapport and actively developing positive and productive relationships, as well as challenging constructively to understand different viewpoints while treating people of varying backgrounds and perspectives fairly.

Communicate effectively through idea and information sharing by practicing attentiveness and active listening which to ensure individuals have sufficient information to accurately perform their duties.

Remain accountable for actions and performance by setting and meeting clear goals and objectives.

Solve problems effectively by quickly grasping the essence of underlying structures to support root cause analysis and solution definition in an effective and timely manner.

Demonstrate a commitment to Trophy’s vision and mission. Understand how individual decisions and actions impact the needs of the department as well as overall corporate goals.

Take initiative to understand and produce results aligned to department priorities and Trophy’s three key strategic pillars:

Driving Sustainable and Profitable Growth

Building Cost Efficiencies to Fuel Growth

Enhancing Organizational Capabilities to Enable Growth

Build teams by selecting the right people, with the right skills, at the right time. Set clear goals to develop others and build new skills and capabilities. Provide support, resources, and constructive feedback to achieve objectives. Manage conflict within the department and between the department and others.

Ensure teams are communicating by building an environment of collaboration, partnership, and trust, as well as holding others accountable.

Lead change by example through generating unique ideas and solutions, championing new initiatives, and overcoming resistance to change.

Demonstrate strategic thinking by developing plans, balancing immediate priorities with long-term goals, anticipating future conditions and circumstances, and aligning with department and corporate goals when implementing initiatives.

Trophy is an equal opportunity employer that values workforce diversity. Diversity is core to our business: by embedding diversity into all aspects of our culture, we maximize the opportunity to

achieve sustainable business success and growth. Trophy Foods Inc. provides equal opportunities in employment, promotions, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment to all qualified persons without regard to race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the applicable Federal and Provincial laws.

Trophy Foods has an accommodation process in place and provides accommodations for employees with disabilities.