Pricing Assistant

**About the role**

**Pricing Assistant**

**Permanent**

**Up to £ 26,000 + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working (3 days per week in the office)**

**Southampton, Store Support Office**

We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a **Pricing Assistant** and you’ll be a big part of this.

**Key responsibilities**

**Role Purpose**: Accurately load retail price changes and promotions in line with the operational plan. Seek to constantly reduce pricing and promotional errors which impact colleagues and customers.

**Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities**:

- Process the upload of Retail Price Changes
- Execute the price changes accurately, ensuring all price changes are fully audit-able & traceable
- Communicate all retail price activity to relevant stakeholders via appropriate communication channels (e.g. intranet)
- Seek to resolve retail price issues, ensuring issues are flagged to all appropriate colleagues & makes suggestions for improvement
- Management of promotion activity, loading promotions accurately, ensuring all promotions are fully audit-able & traceable
- Set up & test individual promotions in the retail system as directed by the Transactional Pricing Manager
- Keep up to date with the trading/marketing plan to help identify any potential capacity issues
- Seek to resolve promotional issues, ensuring issues are flagged to all appropriate customers & make suggestion for improvement
- Constantly seek opportunities to improve the efficiency & accuracy of the retail price change & promotions process
- Support the Transactional Pricing Manager in sharing pricing best practice within the SSO teams e.g. Markets, Tradepoint & Clubcard

**Key Business Relationships**:

- Works with Retail Comms, Market teams, Clubcard, TradePoint to effectively deliver accurate price changes
- Strong working relationship with the Pricing Team & Ireland Pricing Team
- Support stores so that they have the correct data to enable them to deliver a reliable customer journey
- Seeks support & guidance from Kits when an issue has been raised to find a resolution
- Work closely with the Legal team to ensure pricing principles are adhered too & followed
- Enhanced working relationship with the Marketing POS team

**Key Decision Rights**:

- Can make key decisions on price changes that contain incorrect data that do not follow our SLA
- Price change limitations can be overridden within a 10% parameter

**Required skills & experience**

**Required Skills & Experience**:

- Proven experience of working in a data administration role within a large, customer focused organisation
- Competent user of Excel at intermediate level, SAP. PMR (promotional management reporting) not essential but a benefit
- Values the importance of data & the need for a high degree of accuracy
- Able to communicate & escalate issues factually & objectively, constantly seeking ways to resolve issues
- Demonstrates & seeks to understand & pro-actively meet the needs of internal & external customers
- Excellent planning & prioritisation skills, able to effectively manage workload for self
- Can communicate effectively & is a proactive communicator, able to flex style as appropriate
- Able to build effective relationships across multiple departments

**What's in it for me?**

As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are.We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities**. **You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.

We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more