Director Pricing Rack Marketing

Dallas, TX (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive12+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead national pricing strategy and Gravitate Pricing Engine oversight to optimize margins across branded and unbranded products while coordinating cross-functional actions.

  • Own the national pricing vision and quarterly strategy refresh.
  • Must-have: 12–15 years of pricing/analytics experience with data/tooling.
  • Standout: experience managing pricing vendors (OPIS, DTN, Gravitate) and executive dashboards.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Leadership: Own and execute the national pricing vision - driving profitability, competitiveness, and alignment between corporate strategy and regional execution with clearly identified strategies regionally to capture maximum margin and leverage our strategic footprint.
  • Gravitate Pricing Engine Oversight: Lead the development, calibration, and continuous optimization of the Gravitate Pricing Engine, ensuring adaptive responses to rack movements, competitive shifts, and demand signals.
  • Margin & Market Management: Monitor national GPE performance to identify trends, margin pressures, and opportunities across Gasoline and ULSD; recommend strategic adjustments to sustain target margins.
  • Branded vs. Unbranded Strategy: Manage the balance between brand equity protection and market responsiveness, ensuring both channels operate cohesively within overall profit objectives.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Supply, Operations, and Commercial teams to align pricing actions with cost structures, inventory positions, and competitive conditions.
  • Analytical Governance: Establish pricing frameworks, thresholds, and guardrails to ensure consistency, transparency, and accountability across all regional pricing operations.
  • Vendor Relationship Management: Oversee key pricing and market intelligence vendor partnerships - including OPIS, DTN, Gravitate, and MarketView - managing contracts, renewals, and data integrity to ensure accuracy, continuity, and cost efficiency.
  • Performance Reporting: Deliver clear, data-driven insights and executive-level reporting on pricing trends, differential compression, and optimization outcomes.
  • Market Intelligence: Stay ahead of market developments, including rack volatility, DTN integrations, gravitate future releases, and competitor dynamics, to inform proactive pricing adjustments.
  • Leadership & Development: Mentor and guide regional pricing analysts to enhance analytical capability, decision quality, and alignment with enterprise strategy. Supervises the work of at least 3 professional staff members.

Requirements

  • A minimum of 12-15 years of job-specific work experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in business or related field, or equivalent work experience is required.

Preferred

  • Pricing experience a plus.
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) preferred.
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