Category Management, Pricing Analyst
MOO
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PythonSQLTableau
About the role
- Own and maintain multi-currency price sheets across product families and variants
- Analyse pricing coherence, identify anomalies, and propose optimisation opportunities
- Build and operationalise a competitor-pricing monitoring process (tools, scraping, analysis)
- Support the development of pricing strategies for new products, promotions, and markets
- Model shipping pricing and delivery logic, incorporating production lead times and fulfilment differences
- Develop forecasting models to support Category Managers on demand planning and product performance
- Track and analyse manufacturing quality data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities
- Build dashboards, reports, and insights that help teams make evidence-based decisions
- Partner cross-functionally (Operations, Finance, Product, Engineering) to improve data flows and pricing governance
- Contribute to process improvement across pricing and category management
Requirements
- Strong analytical foundation (Stats, Economics, Engineering, Applied Maths, Finance, etc.)
- Advanced Excel/Sheets skills; comfortable navigating large data matrices and multi-file structures
- Experience working with structured datasets (CSV, SQL, Python/R or similar)
- Strong business acumen — you think beyond the numbers
- Comfortable owning complex systems and improving them over time
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical teams
- Curious, proactive, and energised by solving ambiguous problems
- Able to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work quickly
- Detail-oriented when accuracy is critical and pragmatic when speed matters
- Enjoy working in cross-functional, collaborative environments.
- Experience in competitor price-scraping or marketplace pricing intelligence
- Category management or product lifecycle analysis experience
- Exposure to manufacturing quality metrics or operational performance reporting
- Knowledge of e-commerce pricing strategies
- Familiarity with BI tools (Tableau, Snowflake)
- Experience with forecasting methodologies or statistical modelling
- Understanding of multi-currency pricing or international markets
- Exposure to shipping/logistics cost modelling
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
advanced Exceldata analysisSQLPythonRforecasting modelsstatistical modellingprice-scrapingmulti-currency pricingshipping cost modelling
Soft skills
analytical thinkingbusiness acumencommunicationproblem-solvingtime managementdetail-orientedproactivecollaborationadaptabilityownership