Pricing Analyst I at Cooper Machinery Services in Houston, TX

PRICING ANALYST I Join our team as a Pricing Analyst and help shape the decisions that drive growth and profitability. In this role, you’ll transform data into actionable insights analyzing customers, products, costs, and market trends to ensure our pricing strategy is both competitive and profitable. You’ll partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and Service teams to provide critical pricing support, from evaluating cost structures to delivering real-time insights and competitive intelligence. If you thrive on turning complex data into smart business decisions and want to directly influence margin performance and market share, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact!   What You Will Do • Support strategic pricing analysis to develop and implement market price guidelines. • Assist in reducing un-priced items and negative margins in the ERP system. Enhance margin analysis tools and recommend changes to the ERP system for improved efficiency and data accuracy. • Validate sales quotations for accuracy and profitability. • Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Finance and Product Management to gather competitive intelligence and insights related to pricing. • Monitor and maintain discount and margin performance by product, region, and customer. • Maintain data and tools for pricing actions or options to support sales, service, and marketing teams. • Analyze cost changes and their impact on margins and the business. Recommend pricing changes based on market, financial, and sales information. • Ensure product pricing data consistency with sales or promotional literature. • Identify opportunities to optimize sales and profitability through pricing strategies. • Assist in creating and maintaining pricing dashboards and data. • Implement KPIs for the regional sales team to support improved pricing strategy. • Develop capabilities to understand customer segmentation, competitive position, and target value propositions. • Support price training sessions for Sales, Product Managers, and key functions. • Collaborate with leadership teams to identify alternative revenue models and opportunities. Who You Are: You Have: • Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Marketing, or Business Administration • 0-3 years of pricing experience with a focus on developing and implementing price strategies and tools. • Proven data analysis experience and strong grasp of pricing models and techniques. • Proficiency in Excel and ability to learn company's business systems. Preferred: • Experience with SAP. • Experience with business intelligence software/tools such as Tableau, Access, or Power BI. Why Join Us: • Most benefits are effective on your first day of employment — no waiting period. • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance • Company-paid life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability coverage (6-month short-term disability waiting period) • Voluntary life, AD&D, and long-term disability buy up plan • Voluntary benefit plans including accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity Insurance plans • 401(k) with up to 5% company match, employees are 100% vested on Day 1 • Maternity and parental leave, Arc Fertility Benefits, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health support. Equal Opportunity Statement Cooper Machinery Services is an equal opportunity employer and gives all qualified applicants consideration of employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.