Pricing and Costing Analyst

There’s a Place for You at Viking Electric.

A career at Viking Electric is more than a job. You’re investing in a brighter, more sustainable future together and joining a team that makes a real difference for our customers. Viking Electric https://www.vikingelectric.com/about offers electrical products and services to contractors. If it helps bring electricity to an office, home, factory or other building – you can find it here. We operate throughout the Midwest and are part of the Sonepar group, the world’s #1 electrical distributor with over 45,000 associates around the globe. Being “Powered by Difference” means we respect and value diverse perspectives. At Viking Electric, we offer a supportive culture and great benefits, and as part of the larger Sonepar group, we can offer exciting opportunities to grow your career.

Pricing & Costing Analyst

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Job type: Full time

Schedule: Standard Daytime hours, Monday-Friday

Salary: $65,000 - $95,000

*Compensation for this position includes annual salary, short-term incentive bonus, and full benefits package offerings. The exact amount of base salary may vary based on experience and skills brought to the role as well as the geographic location of the role.

What You’ll Do

The primary role of the Costing Analyst is to partner with the Pricing Team, Category Managers and Sales to maximize Viking Electric profitability through enhanced costing analysis, and Vendor collaboration.

You will…

• Execute continual stock costing optimization by monitoring vendor price increases and owning price file analysis and readout.
• Coordinate with Category Managers and Pricing Managers to set and maintain Comm-Cost to Rep-Cost strategy.
• Research COGS discrepancies and provide recommendations for corrections.
• Participate in line reviews and prepare vendor performance reporting to ensure competitive costing.
• Maintains Cost deviations and routinely reviews.
• Execute continual special pricing agreement optimization. Review group SPA profitability opportunities and provide Individual SPA enhancement recommendations.

What You Bring

Requirements:

• Analytical skills:
  • Required: Strong Excel ability, some history of analysis in college (economics, statistics, etc) or business (pricing, finance, business intellgence)
  • Preferred: SQL and/or dashboard experience, although that seems unlikely
• Business experience:
  • Required: 4 years of business experience in any capacity
  • Preferred: some industry experience and some history developing business processes
• Communication:
  • Required: Can have an hour long 1 on 1 conversation with someone they don't know
  • Preferred: Would feel comfortable presenting to a group of people
• Experience in electrical product management or customer-facing sales role in electrical distribution preferred.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without VISA sponsorship now or in the future
• Must have valid driver’s license and be willing to travel

Keywords: SQL, Price analysis, Cost modeling, Statistical analysis, Data visualization, Dashboards Excel, Power BI,  Tableau, ERP, PowerPoint, Salesperson collaboration, Vendor communication, Profitability improvement, Rebate optimization, Gross Margin enhancement, Cost accuracy, Pricing strategy, Financial insights, Forecasting, Business intelligence 

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What We Offer You

We offer great family-friendly benefits to full-time associates:

We’re proud to be a military-friendly company, and our many employee resource groups (ERGs) help you make connections and feel supported.

Learn More About Us

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Learn more at https://www.vikingelectric.com/about.
Viking Electric is part of the Sonepar family of brands: https://www.soneparusa.com/us-en/about-us

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Sonepar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other categories protected by federal, state or local law.

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