PDM Analyst II

JOB OVERVIEW:This position is responsible for item creation and maintenance for specified divisions/areas across the United States. This role requires close collaboration with Marketing teams, Purchasing teams, as well as the Suppliers to leverage the information and knowledge to ensure all appropriate regulatory matters and other requirements are met during the item setup and maintenance process. This position also requires the pricing management of Tier II and III Suppliers as assigned by the PDM Supervisor. Responsibilities include analyzing supplier pricing to ensure system cost integrity, updating item cost and sell price, review of pricing reports and the daily research and resolution of invoice discrepancies. Work will be performed in close collaboration with the Purchasing and Marketing teams based on supplier assignments to maximize communication and synergy. Monitor key metrics and supplier pricing performance to ensure supplier pricing communications are received, accurately updated and managed for optimum performance.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Price Change Management - Manage price changes and related analytics for an assigned list of suppliers to assess financial impact of cost changes: Perform price change analysis and communicate variance and financial impact to Marketing and Purchasing teams.Improve pricing accuracy and analyze supplier performance through additional data analytics of exception reporting.Communicate effectively and work closely with buying team to ensure that pricing requirements and purchasing systems are correctly matched so that the company can optimize cost savings and meet supplier prerequisites, such as minimums, case quantities, sub-vendors, deal requirements, etc. A good working knowledge of the purchasing system will be required to be effective.Timely and accurate entry of all price changes for same assigned group of suppliers. This includes administrative functions such as pricing log entry, follow-up queries and entry of sam