Director of Pricing

Serving the needs of all families with young childrenCarters Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children encompassing Carters OshKosh Bgosh Skip*Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work constant learning genuine people and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carters.

How youll make an impact:

The Director of Pricing & Analytics partners with retail teams to develop datadriven strategies and continuously improve the tools and systems used across the organization. This role drives sales profitability efficiency and better decisionmaking through pricing and inventory optimization initiatives inseason management and preseason planning. The ideal leader combines strong analytical communication and strategic leadership skills and is comfortable working crossfunctionally at all levels.

Forecasting & Decision Support Analytics 20%

• Oversee automated forecast models for stores and eComm - ensure accuracy and usability
• Maintain product lifecycle forecasts sell through projections and clearance health
• Build and scale selfserve analytics leveraging product location and customer level datasets
• Deliver adhoc analyses (event performance elasticity marketing messaging)
• Create executiveready views and decision frameworks translate signals into insights and recommendations

Promotional Calendar Strategy & Execution 20%

• Support seasonal cadence event planning - promotions flash sales coupons loyalty offers etc.
• Oversee calendar governance and crossfunctional communication
• Align planning and execution data to support customer experience for stores and eComm
• Drive process improvement through cross functional coordination with planning creative online and store ops
• Quantify pricing impacts; steward KVI definitions and measurement

Pricing Analytics & Execution Systems Leadership 20%

• Ownership of pricing/promo systems - ensure price accuracy system stability and input data integrity
• Maintain integration health - triage and resolve systemic issues quickly
• Define prioritize and manage systems roadmap with IT and external vendor partners
• Govern budget vendor relationships and SLAs

Omnichannel Localization Programs & Pricing Tests 15%

• Design & execute localized pricing strategies and product life cycle to optimize product margin
• Scale and optimize successful programs - scoping approvals and cross functional execution
• Lead store and product level tests (promotions messaging product exclusives localized digital experience)
• Coordinate cross functional playbooks readiness plans rollout criteria

Competitive Intelligence & Market Signals 15%

• Own competitive process including data sourcing vendor management workflows and reporting
• Integrate internal external and external pricing sales and market data
• Produce event recaps and weekly insights for leadership and working teams
• Inform pricing narratives with external market signals

Team Leadership 10%

• Set goals; coach and develop talent
• Plan resources and role clarity across multiple skill sets
• Build team development roadmap and grow talent

Wed Love to hear from you if:

Must have:

• Experience: 5-10 years of retail experience preferably with multichannel or omnichannel pricing promotion digital merchandising data science and/or analytics
• 3-5 years of experience managing a team
• Strong technical foundation including experience with large datasets cloud based platforms and querying (Tableau AWS Excel price optimization / competitive intelligence application experience is a plus)
• Experience developing and supporting scalable tools and dashboards
• Experience with highly collaborative projects and working cross-functionally especially in a matrix organization with the ability to influence partners across multiple departments.
• Accountable self-motivated hands-on dynamic and passionate leadership style that can productively impact both strategic and tactical financial outcomes
• Ability to think innovatively and challenge existing paradigms and practices in a data-driven manner.

Preferred skills and experience:

• A wide variety of past experiences n collaborative environments with experience in pricing sales analytics buying planning location planning e-commerce operations go-to-market and/or marketing

Make a career at Carters:

• Career Development: Success starts from within and we have several paths from which you can choose to enhance your career evolution. From Carters University to Toastmasters to mentorship programs and more we encourage you to utilize these tools to elevate your professional prowess.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The duties described may be changed or reassigned at the discretion of management and the employee may be required to perform duties that are not listed in the job description.

Carters is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age veteran status or any other status protected by federal state or local law.