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Covington, La, Us

★ Led the vision, strategy, and execution of pricing initiatives, managing four million customer price records through the Prelude ERP application.★ Directed a team of four pricing analysts and five pricing managers, extracting and analyzing large data sets from multiple systems to support pricing decisions.★ Standardized pricing structures across 62 markets, 300,000 products, and 300+ locations, enhancing operational efficiency.★ Developed and delivered an analytics roadmap, driving business value and improving stakeholder visibility.★ Built and maintained comprehensive metrics and KPIs to measure the health and success of the revenue organization.★ Innovated and implemented automated pricing processes, increasing field capacity by 70% and reducing field office workload by 40%.★ Contributed to post-acquisition integration by converting master data for products, vendors, customers, and pricing from acquired companies.★ Conducted ad-hoc pricing studies and analyses to evaluate opportunities for pricing improvement and competitive positioning.★ Developed and tested pricing hypotheses, presenting findings and recommendations to senior leadership, while managing related pricing data projects.★ Collaborated with Finance and Accounting to provide insights and recommend best practices for pricing management.★ Led the development of advanced pricing analytics strategies to drive growth and profitability.★ Established processes for bench marking pricing against competitors, identifying short-term tactical pricing opportunities.

Covington, La, Us

Covington, La, Us

★ Supervises a team of six data analysts and three data quality analysts, conducting analytics of large data sets from the ERP platform, a data warehouse, and other systems★ Developed ETL files necessary for the conversion of data from acquired companies into the PoolCorp ERP system.★ Worked with division pricing managers to execute mass updates to customer price records and reports. Updated replacement costs and communicated adjustments to field employees. Created a Microsoft SharePoint site to enable the submission and storage of vendor cost update files.★ Partnered with an outside vendor to collect product data, images, and descriptions to improve search functionality while using a dimension scanner to record weights and dimensions.☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲ABOUT POOLCORPPoolCorp is the world’s largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, parts, and outdoor living products for builders, retailers, service companies, and contractors.

Covington, La, Us

★ Responsible for administering product data for over 250,000 items stored in multiple ERP systems and websites in multiple languages across 10 countries.★ Responded to product data maintenance requests, supporting corporate office and field employees for data-related issues.★ Contributed to the testing of data utilities by collecting product descriptions, images, and schematic breakdowns.★ Led data integration for more than 100,000 products relating to 11 corporate acquisitions.★ Planned and directed a global project that merged and consolidated data from multiple ERP systems into a single platform, eliminating redundancies.★ Executed a project that examined and reclassified product lines into clearer classifications and subcategories.☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲ABOUT POOLCORPPoolCorp is the world’s largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, parts, and outdoor living products for builders, retailers, service companies, and contractors.