Position Purpose: The Product Specialist position will work with various departments, pricing, purchasing, sales/marketing, and accounting. Using all reporting methods, including Solar, Phocas & epaCube to gather information to assist in making and implementing decisions related to competitive pricing, market conditions, customer needs, margin and revenue targets, and inventory/forecasting metrics.
Leadership Summary: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Assist Pricing Specialist: Develop and maintain pricing strategies that support the company's goals and competitive position; Identify opportunities to optimize sales through pricing strategies.
- Assist with analyzing: Monitor market conditions, competitor pricing, and customer demand
- Assist with product maintenance: Maintain product system accuracy with respect to product data, pricing, costing and spec changes.
- Communication: Assist with creating reports, presentations, and proposals to explain product and pricing strategies
- Collaborate with other departments: Work with purchasing, sales, marketing, and other departments to achieve goals
- Other: Additional tasks and functions related to the accuracy and effectiveness of systemic product and pricing needs Develop and maintain tools for monitoring the impact of pricing changes.
- This position is responsible for the timely completion of projects.
- Reading reports and identifying issues that need to be addressed.
- This position would need to stay abreast of changes in the industry and their expected impacts.
- Adheres to all company policies, procedures, standards and business ethics codes.
- Maintains a professional attitude and personal appearance.
- Maintains professional communications when interacting with customers and coworkers. Treats all customers and coworkers with a helpful and courteous attitude
- Follows all established policy and safety guidelines in a drug-free workplace.
- Attends meetings as required by management.
- Assists with special duties and assignments as needed, as directed by the Business Optimization Manager
Johnstone Supply believes that each employee's contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, it is expected that each employee will offer his/her services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our endeavors.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Education and Experience:
- High School Diploma / GED required OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 1 year in a position requiring data analytics.
- Proficient with analytical and presentation tools, including advanced Excel skills such as Pivot tables, and Lookup functions.
- Demonstrates complex problem-solving skills
- Able to push projects to completion
- Able to work 40 hours per week, 8 hours per day, in an office environment
Preferred:
- Experience with planning, forecasting, and business analysis
- Experience in HVAC Distribution is a plus but not required
Johnstone Supply is North America's leading wholesale distributor of HVACR equipment, parts, and supplies. Over the last seven decades Johnstone has grown into the industry leader with over 450 distributor branches and 6 distribution centers throughout North America resulting in over $4 billion in annual sales. We work with some of the largest companies in the world, including Daikin/Goodman, Honeywell, Emerson, Johnson Controls, Google, and Fujitsu, to provide contractors with world class products, technical expertise, and quality service.
Johnstone offers a competitive wage and benefits that include medical, dental, vision, life, LTD, 401(k) with company match, and PTO. Our commitment to continuous improvement & investment in our people is only matched by our commitment to superior customer experience.
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