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Job Summary

The Business Data Analyst supports the governance, execution, and continuous improvement of pricing activities and data-driven decision-making across the organization. The role analyzes sales data, leads pricing initiatives, validates customer and product pricing, and provides actionable insights to Sales, Marketing, Finance, R&D, Customer Service, and IT.

This position requires strong analytical skills, logical thinking, process discipline, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, comfortable working with large datasets, able to translate business needs into structured analysis, and capable of supporting strategic commercial decisions through reliable recommendations and validated assumptions.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and prioritize pricing requests from business stakeholders.
• Analyze customer, distributor, product, net price, discount, and margin data.
• Prepare, validate, and maintain pricing files for price increases, customer updates, distributor requests, and system uploads.
• Lead pricing implementation for Canadian and U.S. organizations, including timelines, dependencies, customer files, communications, and system readiness.
• Develop pricing scenarios and recommendations based on sales, costs, duties, freight, exchange rates, market benchmarks, customer rules, market conditions, and commercial objectives.
• Investigate and resolve pricing discrepancies, exceptions, missing list prices, customer net price issues, and pricing system errors.
• Maintain pricing trackers, issue logs, approval records, documentation, and pricing history.
• Support process mapping and documentation for pricing workflows, including special quotations, SPA/discount processes, price maintenance, price increases, and ERP pricing logic.
• Collaborate with IT, Finance, R&D, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service to ensure pricing data is accurate, complete, and properly implemented.
• Conduct market and distributor analyses using internal data, distributor websites, competitive pricing tools, and external sources.
• Support leadership through dashboards, reports, presentations, KPIs, and business insights.
• Identify process gaps, recurring pricing issues, data-quality concerns, and opportunities to improve governance and automation.
• Document assumptions, data sources, approvals, decisions, and final outputs to improve traceability and reduce recurring errors.
• Support business analytics platforms including Sigma, ERP systems, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Tecsys, Salesforce, and competitive pricing tools.

Skills & Capabilities

• Analytical rigor
• Business acumen
• Process discipline
• Data quality
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Problem solving
• Communication
• Attention to detail
• Ownership
• Adaptability

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Data Analytics, Economics, Marketing, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• 2–5 years of experience in business analysis, commercial analytics, finance, sales operations, or data analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and large dataset management.
• Experience with ERP, CRM, BI, pricing, or data management systems.
• Strong ability to analyze SKU-, customer-, distributor-, and product-level data.
• Experience with pricing implementation, price increases, customer-specific pricing, SPA/discount structures, or margin analysis is an asset.
• Familiarity with Sigma, Power BI, Tableau, or similar BI tools.
• Ability to interpret business requirements, validate assumptions, and deliver reliable analysis under tight timelines.
• Strong documentation, process mapping, issue tracking, and business communication skills.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial distribution, B2B sales, or multi-channel distribution is an asset.
• Full professional proficiency in English is required due to regular interaction with international stakeholders. Professional proficiency in French is a strong asset.