Pricing/Samples Coordinator

  MeadWestvaco Consumer & Office Products has the best recognized brands in the business. MeadWestvaco leads the North American and Brazilian stationery markets for school, home and business use ? with products that help people organize, communicate, create and learn. Our customers, who range from office superstores to independent variety and stationery stores, have long relied on the success of our popular brands: AT-A-GLANCE?, DayRunner? and Columbian?. Our school stationery brands ? Five Star?, Hilroy?, Mead? and Tilibra? ? help students better organize their school work and focus on learning. Consumer & Office Products holds relationships with key licensors such as Thomas Kinkade, Disney, Nickelodeon, Warner Brothers and Nike.

 

BASIC FUNCTION:

The purpose of this position is to develop and support the pricing process and distribution of pricing for the Consumer & Office Products division?s school, stationery and gift products.

 

BASIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:

- Analyze cost and customer pricing to ensure comparability by item

- Quantification of price changes, including modeling and impact analysis

- Monitor MWV and Competitive pricing and communicate visible trends to Sales Management

- Communicate price changes to Sales, Marketing and OMG

- Coordinate with Marketing to verify pricing and product information throughout the year

- Calculate variance low guidelines on appropriate products

- Compute and maintain kit pricing and list and low pricing for new items in SAP

- Manage pricing for Mass items and Gift pricing to include analysis to ensure consistent price changes across item categories

- Update Pricer and Customer Special Pricer to reflect any price changes and show change percent

- Ensure pricing is correct in the following areas:  Pricing model, SAP ? correct pricing conditions loaded, Product library and Price list

- Facilitate adding/changing prices in SAP

- Resolve OMG pricing issues and variances

- Investigate variance upload errors

- Troubleshoot order errors

- Pricing/Samples Administrator would manage samples to include:

- Train CSR?s and Marketing personnel responsible for entering sample orders in SAP

- Provide backup for entry of sample orders in SAP, when volume dictates

- Generate sample reports monthly to monitor budget and coordinate the volume needed with Marketing

- Contact point with location responsible for warehousing of sample product

 

REQUIREMENTS:

- 3-5 years of product pricing or financial sales analysis experience

- Bachelor?s degree in business or related discipline

- Strong mathematical and analytical skills

- Excellent Word, Excel and PowerPoint computer skills; proficiency with Excel pivot tables, vlookups and macros is preferred

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Efficient and effective organizational skills

- SAP and Business Warehouse experience preferred

 

 


Business Unit :
Consumer and Office Products
Reports To :
Manager Sales Finance Analysis