Pricing Manager

At Albert, we are proud of our work since it is our goal to help Czechs eat and live better. Each and every one of our colleagues does an incredible job every day so we can offer our customers healthier, friendlier and more local food. That's why the work we do together isn't "just work". It's work that is meaningful to us, to our communities, to our land and to our planet. It is work that makes sense!

Pricing Manager is responsible for the price strategy and the daily management of price changes, the delivery of actionable insights to the key commercial processes such as supplier negotiations, category assortment management, promotional tactics, marketing campaigns and format development/optimization questions.

• home-office according to the possibilities of the position
• modern offices 5 minutes from Nové Butovice metro station and free parking for employees
• upon agreement with your supervisor, the possibility of temporary remote work from abroad
• space for your career and personal growth
• collaboration and cross-over within international teams
• company car
• open-minded and informal corporate culture
• becoming a member of our socially responsible Albert famil
• zero food waste Canteen, fruit, massages, exercise at the offices
• membership in groups organizing supplier excursions, development workshops, trips, summer cinema, escape games and more

• drive the Albert Commercial/Trade Agenda and Priorities, encourage people to engage with retail business process and think about how Ahold can be more competitive
• implement the Albert standards of performance and talent development & management, recognize great performance, coach constructively on under-performance
• use the insights from the engagement survey to inspire and motivate our people, in the short-term focus on leading by example, embracing diversity and explaining the reasons for change
• understanding of the importance of price as a driver or barrier for price perception
• understand what is going on in the market by performing frequent measurements
• creation and maintenance of a category-overarching price architecture
• optimize price distance versus competition based on a differentiated approach (including article, store, category importance)
• optimize prices to maximize sales and profitability
• deliver expected price indexes vs competition
• be the gatekeeper of all price changes that are orchestrated by Support Office
• delivery and maintenance of the pricing tool supporting workflow management and optimization as well as supporting the pricing strategy through delivering a basket segmentation using transaction data to define the article importance within the pricing framework
• delivery and maintenance of the promo tool for workflow management and optimization, the creation of evaluation reports and providing input to the development of the promo strategy

• University Master / MBA degree
• more than 5 years of experience in Commercial sphere in retail or FMCG companies
• shows a record of success in managing a team
• excellent business acumen and analytical skills
• track record of commercial/data analysis
• fluent in English and Czech
• entrepreneurial executive proficient in developing strategy, has outstanding delivery skill
• a dynamic, incisive and result-oriented executive with ability to see bigger picture

• we support healthy lifestyle: we play sports and relax with a discounted MultiSport card, we use the Zdrabert app to support physical and mental health, we have a Prevention with Albert programme and organise Health Days, and we regularly distribute fruit snacks to all employees, we and our family members can contact the Albert helpline whenever in trouble
• we put emphasis on work-life balance: we have introduced flexible working hours, we use family shopping discounts five times a year
• we are committed to social and environmental responsibility: we are the largest corporate food donor, we replace paper receipts with electronic ones, we operate the Albert Foundation, we regularly donate unsold food, we cooperate with local suppliers, we organize charity runs to support children's homes, and we have signed the Diversity Charter
• we are innovative: we renovate and modernize our stores, distribution centres and offices, we install self-service checkouts and electronic price tags in our stores, we work with Albert scan and smart scales, and thanks to the Můj Albert loyalty app we buy bargains
• we employ over 20,000 colleagues
• we are a part of the multinational Ahold Delhaize Group
• we service 4,000,000 customers a week
• we have been in the market more than thirty years (since 1991)
• we have over 340 stores across the Czech Republic, three distribution centres and Albert Online e-shop