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Job Title
Senior Manager, Pricing Execution
Position Overview
Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs.
It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands: Anderson Tuftex, COREtec, Shaw Floors, Patcraft, Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass, Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more. Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $5 billion in annual sales and approximately 18,000 associates worldwide.
Position Overview:
The Senior Manager, Pricing Execution will play a critical leadership role in implementing and operationalizing pricing strategies across Shaw’s Residential business. Reporting to the Director, Pricing Strategy & Optimization, this individual will be responsible for driving day-to-day execution of pricing processes, managing pricing systems and governance, and leading high-impact teams that deliver timely, market-aligned pricing across all categories and channels.
Key Responsibilities
- Pricing Execution & Operations
- Lead the operational rollout and maintenance of pricing strategies, ensuring pricing accuracy, consistency, and alignment with corporate and business unit goals.
- Maintain and manage Shaw’s pricing systems and infrastructure—including Mainframe, Zilliant, Oracle, & Salesforce.com – ensuring functionality, compatibility, integration, data integrity, pricing accuracy, and user access rights.
- Manage pricing approvals, exception processes, and escalation workflows in coordination with Sales, Customer Service, and Finance.
- Ensure disciplined price governance and compliance through clear documentation, process controls, communication, and compliance with SOX.
- Team Leadership & Collaboration
- Lead a cross-functional pricing execution team, including pricing analysts and customer service pricing coordinators.
- Foster alignment between Sales, Customer Experience, Product & Brand Management, and Pricing teams to deliver seamless pricing support and responsiveness to customers and field sales.
- Process Improvement & Enablement
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives to optimize pricing workflows, reduce lead times, and improve customer responsiveness.
- Identify and implement best practices across pricing execution, data validation, margin protection, and price communication.
- Develop and maintain pricing playbooks, SOPs, and training materials to ensure clarity and scalability of pricing processes.
- Reporting, Analytics, & Support
- Serve as a trusted partner to Sales leadership, enabling execution of pricing strategies at the customer level.
- Provide pricing execution metrics and insights, including analysis of price agreements, exceptions, credits, and pricing compliance.
- Enable cross-functional partners and leadership with visibility into pricing performance, margin impacts, and execution effectiveness.
Qualifications
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Engineering, or related field; MBA preferred.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in pricing, sales operations, finance, or a related function, ideally within a complex, multi-channel organization.
- Proven ability to lead high-performing teams and manage execution in a matrixed environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities under tight timelines.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills at all organizational levels.
- Analytical thinker with strong business acumen and problem-solving skills.
- Preferred: Background in the building products, manufacturing, or distribution industries.
- Experience driving change management and process transformation initiatives.
- Familiarity with Salesforce, Oracle, and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
- Experience deploying and managing pricing systems (e.g., Zilliant, Vendavo) and CRM/ERP platforms.
- Understanding of pricing principles including cost-to-serve, value-based pricing, and discounting frameworks
- 10+ years of progressive experience in pricing, sales operations, finance, or a related function, ideally within a complex, multi-channel organization
- Core Competencies
- Strategic Execution & Process Discipline
- Team Leadership & Talent Development
- Cross-Functional Change Management & Continuous Improvement
- Operational Agility & Problem Solving
- Communication & Influence
- Customer-Centric Mindset
- #ShawSAL
- Work Shift
- 8 Hr non-rotating shift, Hrs fall to in punch day, Observed Calendar, shift starts AM
- Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.