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This role serves a vital role in supporting the execution of funeral pricing strategies in the assigned Area of Responsibility (AOR) for the funeral segment. Provides support to Funeral Revenue & Management to optimize service and merchandise revenues. Performs detailed review of funeral price list documents and compares various data sources to ensure all critical information and pricing is reflected accurately. Applies proven problem-solving skills to reconcile item and price discrepancies between multiple system sources. Executes high-quality, heavily detailed work with accuracy and efficiency on a daily basis. Maintains professionalism when interacting with team, location staff and other corporate departments.
- Prepare, load and validate funeral pricing tools including: TOPAS, Price Lists, .CSV pricing uploads and pricing reports.
- Collaborate within team on pricing modeling issues, trends, and key data points in order to learn and understand the industry and key decision points.
- Update and maintain prices, price lists and package structures in databases to ensure compliance with federal and state funeral regulations ensuring pricing integrity and accuracy.
- Works closely with Pricing Managers to update all pricing, item descriptions, setup and activations of service codes for all funeral locations.
- Test data enhancements to pricing system and tools and provide detailed feedback to Director of Pricing Intelligence/Systems.
- Generate pricing reports and other analytic views for Pricing Managers and Corporate Pricing Management.
- Works closely with the HMIS+ and Beacon team to ensure accuracy of location displays.
- Fosters a solid relationship with Supply Chain, HMIS/HMIS+/Beacon and Item Maintenance for item and contract accuracy.
- Self-manage workload, negotiating deadlines to meet expectations.
- Take the initiative to discuss assignments, expectations, priorities and deadlines as well as seek guidance and coaching from manager. Adjust quickly to new work structures, processes, requirements or cultures.
- Develops and proposes new system standards to improve production or workflow as required.
Minimum Requirements
Education:
- Associate’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Marketing or related discipline
Experience:
- Two (2) years of professional experience in a related field
- Experience in funeral industry preferred
- Proficient in MS Office Suite: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
- SharePoint and Tableau experience a plus
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Process and results oriented, motivated to keep projects moving ahead by removing obstacles and exploring alternatives.
- Cognitive Ability including reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, learn from experience, and appropriately apply learning to new situations.
- A proven ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical professionals.
- A drive to continually advance your understanding of the industry and business.
- Ability to interpret and communicate statistical results to assist in decision-making and analysis.
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, as well as strong presentation skills.
- Ability to build professional and trusting business relations as well as interact and collaborate with all levels of department management.
Work Conditions
Work Environment
- Work indoors during all seasons and weather conditions
- Limited amount of local and/or multiple location traveling required
- Comply with Corporate dress code policy
Work Postures
- Sitting continuously for many hours per day, up to 6 hours per day
- Climbing stairs to access buildings frequently
Physical Demands
- Physical effort requiring manual dexterity is required, includes paperwork, calculators, computers and phone usage
Work Hours
- Working beyond “standard” hours as the need arises
Postal Code: 77019
Category (Portal Searching): Marketing and Advertising
Job Location: US-TX - Houston
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What We Do
Service Corporation International (NYSE:SCI), headquartered in Houston, Texas, is North America’s leading provider of death care products and services. As of September 30, 2016, SCI operates 1,531 funeral service locations and 471 cemeteries (including 262 combination locations), which are geographically diversified across 45 states, eight Canadian provinces, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Through its businesses, SCI markets the Dignity Memorial® brand which offers assurance of quality, value, caring service and exceptional customer satisfaction. In January 2016, SCI was presented with the J.D. Power President’s Award in recognition of an ongoing dedication to service excellence including quality improvement, customer satisfaction and the development of enduring client relationships. For more information about Service Corporation International, please visit www.sci-corp.com. For more information about Dignity Memorial, please visit www.dignitymemorial.com. As used herein, “SCI” or the “Company” refers to Service Corporation International and all of its affiliated companies.
