Can a Pricing Analyst grow communities by helping merchants thrive?

Groupon’s mission is to become the daily habit in local commerce and fulfill our purpose of building strong communities through thriving small businesses by connecting people to a vibrant, global marketplace for local services, experiences and goods. In the process, we’re positively impacting the lives of millions of customers and merchants globally. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. If you want to take more ownership of your career, then you're ready to be part of Groupon.

Groupon Goods, the retail arm of our business, is a daily one-stop shop for brand-name essentials and unexpected, one-of-a-kind finds. For our merchants, this means massive exposure, smart promotion, and reliable fulfillment. For our customers, this means great deals on a variety of products ranging from electronics to clothing, home goods to beauty.

Working in Goods, you will join a retail-savvy team whose goal is to procure and provide customers with the products they want, when they want them. As a Strategic Pricing Analyst you will play a meaningful role in continuing to build Groupon into a daily habit with our customers. We put the customer at the center of everything we do, and we’re seeking a hungry, data-driven analytics professional to help keep us focused on that mission. In this role you will collaborate with cross-functional partners to analyze pricing performance, find opportunities for improvement, and develop plans of action to improve performance of growth programs. You will be required to develop an in-depth understanding of our data structures, tools, and business processes for handling daily pricing and promotional activities, and generate objective, data-driven, and actionable short and long-term recommendations.

You'll spend time on the following:

• You will collect, analyze, and evaluate data to understand pricing & business trends and measure effectiveness of promotional campaigns, programs, and price tests

• You will develop insights to find opportunities, and take action through partnership with Merchandising, Product & Engineering and various other teams

• Communicate performance and analyses to key partners across the organization

• You will drive operational changes required from introduction of new products and continued improvements

• You will respond to competitor activity and other urgent issues

• You are able to work in a dynamic environment

• Analyze current business processes to identify areas of opportunity for improvement and streamlining, work closely with business and engineering partners to affect these changes

We're excited about you if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM, Business, Economics or equivalent work experience

• Shown strong quantitative and analytical skills

• 2+ years of relevant experience in e-commerce, retail, operations, and/or business consulting roles that has included quantitative analysis

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and SQL

• Experience with Tableau or other data visualization tools

• Familiarity with scripting languages such as R is a plus

• Clear and effective communication skills

• Self-starter, go-getter, adaptive to fast-paced working environment

Groupon provides a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. We’re enabling real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. At the same time, we are providing advertising options and tools that merchants can use to grow and manage their businesses. Culturally, we believe that great people make great companies and that starting with the customer and working backward moves us forward. Community matters to us on an internal, local and global scale—it’s fundamental to our company’s growth and to the well-being of the world at large. We also value self-awareness, candor, lunch and WiFi. If we match with you, please apply to join us.