Senior Analyst, Pricing & Margin (Contract)

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Job Type: Full Time, 12-Month Contract

Function: Inventory Management

Address: 160 Bloor Street East, 11th Floor, Toronto, ON

Working Model: Hybrid

Vacancy Status: This position is for an existing, open vacancy

Belong to Something Beautiful

At Sephora Canada, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.

Ready for a career glow-up? As Senior Analyst, Pricing & Margin, you’ll play a key role in shaping pricing and margin strategies that support business performance and elevate the client experience. The work you do will directly impact beauty, as you turn complex data into meaningful insights and recommendations that help drive smart, strategic decisions. You’ll be part of a collaborative team that is passionate about planning for the future, optimizing performance, and supporting business growth across channels.

What You’ll Do:

Margin Analysis:

• Review current business processes and enhance planning tools to better support evolving business needs.
• Build a strong understanding of strategies, business issues, risks, and opportunities, and translate complex information into clear, concise insights.
• Analyze and interpret large, complex data sets to identify risks and opportunities for margin improvement.
• Provide meaningful margin analysis to support budgets, forecasts, and other key business reporting.
• Partner with inventory planning teams to deliver insights on margin performance and its impact on the business.
• Collaborate with inventory planning leaders to assess aging inventory and obsolescence risk, including tracking reserves and recovery strategies.

Pricing:

• Build and maintain pricing models, dashboards, and reporting tools that support informed and effective decision-making.
• Partner closely with Finance to understand and evaluate the impact of pricing on market share.
• Monitor competitor pricing and consumer behaviour to identify trends and opportunities.
• Conduct scenario analysis and provide recommendations to help optimize pricing decisions.
• Perform regular audits to ensure pricing accuracy and support accountability for updates and corrections.
• Build and maintain Brand IMU and Brand MSRP trackers.
• Lead the annual Pricing Parity project, partnering with Merchandising Strategy to review and update SKUs not at parity.
• Ensure all SKUs are set up in alignment with leadership direction on FX.
• Collaborate with IT to address system-related roadblocks and support the implementation of new pricing systems and tools.

Internal Tools & Reporting:

• Track Brand and SKU pricing, including brand cost, retail, parity, and IMU%, ensuring timely and accurate information is available across the organization.
• Develop internal tools as needed to support one-time updates and ongoing audit execution.
• Build and publish reporting that summarizes Pricing Parity execution and audit updates.
• Maintain and publish weekly company reporting, including the Weekly Sales Report, Corporate Report, Pop-up Report, and other key business updates.
• Keep reporting dashboards current and accurate by ensuring weekly updates reflect the latest available data.

What You’ll Bring:

• 3–5 years of experience in pricing analysis, margin analysis, financial analysis, retail analysis, or a similar analytical role.
• Bachelor’s degree, College diploma, or equivalent practical work experience.
• Retail or consumer goods experience is strongly preferred.
• Advanced technical proficiency, including strong Excel skills and experience with data analytics tools.
• Strong financial modeling, data analysis, and problem-solving skills, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• The ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for a range of stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• A collaborative, curious, and results-driven mindset, with the ability to work through ambiguity and influence cross-functional partners.

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What You’ll Get:

• Caring Community. You’ll collaborate with teammates who are equally passionate about innovating, doing the right things, and driving the industry forward – together, united in beauty.
• Fulfilling Path. Your career glow-up starts here with access to opportunities that will challenge, stretch, and develop your skills. You’ll have access to the global community of luxury group LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy) for endless career opportunities.
• Meaningful Work. As you make an impact on beauty, you’ll feel and see the positive change (consumer, industry, and social) your individual voice is a part of.
  
  

Rewards as Unique as You Are:

Eligibility requirements apply to certain benefits and may vary depending on job classification and length of employment.

• Wealth. We’re passionate about pay equity and transparency. The compensation ranges between CAD$76,000.00 - CAD$85,000.00. The final pay offered will depend on various factors, including but not limited to the actual qualifications and experience of the individual, and any additional non-discriminatory, legitimate business factors relevant to the position and/or location.
• Health. Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your family’s needs with medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage. Access to our Well-Being@Sephora program to support your mental, financial, physical, and social well-being.
• Balance. You’ll be trusted to find the perfect blend of work/life balance that actually works for you with a hybrid work schedule, vacation and flex days, and maternity/paternity leave.
• Growth.A career glow-up is built into every role, with access to training and development programs and resources throughout the year.
• Perks. Think you’ve tried it all? Enjoy a 30% discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities for gratis, and flash sale discounts on LVMH brands.
• Support. Tap into volunteer and donation matching, Employee Assistance Program, and free mental health resources with 24/7 access to Dialogue.

Join us and Belong to Something Beautiful.

Sephora Canada strongly believes in equal opportunity when it comes to employment and advancement. Our goal is to be inclusive, diverse, and representative of the communities where we work while creating an environment where every person can belong, grow, and build a beautiful career. This commitment applies to all candidates and employees regardless of race, ethnicity, citizenship, creed, place of origin, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, disability, age, and/or any other diversity dimensions. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (visible or otherwise), other protected characteristics or other reasonable circumstances can be made at any stage of the recruitment process and during employment by contacting our People team.

As part of our commitment to transparency and efficiency, we would like to inform you that we utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening and evaluation of applications.