Role Summary
Owns the accuracy side of pricing: keeping the price book correct across all stores, making sure every item’s margin reflects the right cost and retail price, and producing the recurring sales summaries that management uses to review pricing and performance.
Key Responsibilities
1. Sales Book / Sales Summary Reporting
What it involves: Putting together a recurring summary of sales performance – by item, category, and/or store – for management to review, so pricing and purchasing decisions are based on current numbers rather than guesswork.
In Catapult: Pulled from Catapult’s Web Office reporting suite (300+ standard reports), its businessintelligence dashboard, which presents sales and performance data as graphical widgets. Reports can be run on demand or scheduled, and filtered or compared across individual stores or the whole enterprise.
2. Making Sure Margins Are Proper What it involves: Checking that the retail price on every item actually reflects the correct cost and the target margin – catching pricing errors, updating retail prices whenever a vendor’s cost changes, and auditing margins by item, category, or store to flag anything selling too cheap (or priced too high to move).
In Catapult: Price and cost data live in Catapult’s item file / price management tools in the back office, where pricing rules can be set by store, region, margin target, or customer group. Catapult’s item grading (A–F, weighted on gross margin contribution along with velocity and revenue) is used to spot underperforming items that need a pricing review. Price and Cost change can be done massively on Excel and importing into Catapult to make sure margins are properly met.
Required Qualifications •
4-5+ years of experience in retail pricing, merchandising, bookkeeping, or a similarly detailheavy, numbers-focused role. • Strong attention to detail and comfort working with repetitive, accuracy-critical data entry. • Basic understanding of cost, retail price, and margin math (e.g. how a margin percentage is calculated). • Comfortable working inside a POS / retail back-office system; prior ECRS Catapult experience is a plus but not required. • Excel proficiency for reviewing and cross-checking pricing and sales reports.
