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Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
Business Data Analyst
About the role
Reporting to: CCO & President of Automation
Join WALTER and help customers work better!
WALTER Surface Technologies is a leader in productivity solutions for the metalworking industry.
Job Summary
The Business Data Analyst supports the governance, execution, and continuous improvement of pricing activities and data-driven decision-making across the organization. The role analyzes sales data, leads pricing initiatives, validates customer and product pricing, and provides actionable insights to Sales, Marketing, Finance, R&D, Customer Service, and IT.
This position requires strong analytical skills, logical thinking, process discipline, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, comfortable working with large datasets, able to translate business needs into structured analysis, and capable of supporting strategic commercial decisions through reliable recommendations and validated assumptions.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and prioritize pricing requests from business stakeholders.
- Analyze customer, distributor, product, net price, discount, and margin data.
- Prepare, validate, and maintain pricing files for price increases, customer updates, distributor requests, and system uploads.
- Lead pricing implementation for Canadian and U.S. organizations, including timelines, dependencies, customer files, communications, and system readiness.
- Develop pricing scenarios and recommendations based on sales, costs, duties, freight, exchange rates, market benchmarks, customer rules, market conditions, and commercial objectives.
- Investigate and resolve pricing discrepancies, exceptions, missing list prices, customer net price issues, and pricing system errors.
- Maintain pricing trackers, issue logs, approval records, documentation, and pricing history.
- Support process mapping and documentation for pricing workflows, including special quotations, SPA/discount processes, price maintenance, price increases, and ERP pricing logic.
- Collaborate with IT, Finance, R&D, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service to ensure pricing data is accurate, complete, and properly implemented.
- Conduct market and distributor analyses using internal data, distributor websites, competitive pricing tools, and external sources.
- Support leadership through dashboards, reports, presentations, KPIs, and business insights.
- Identify process gaps, recurring pricing issues, data-quality concerns, and opportunities to improve governance and automation.
- Document assumptions, data sources, approvals, decisions, and final outputs to improve traceability and reduce recurring errors.
- Support business analytics platforms including Sigma, ERP systems, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Tecsys, Salesforce, and competitive pricing tools.
Skills & Capabilities
- Analytical rigor
- Business acumen
- Process discipline
- Data quality
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Ownership
- Adaptability
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Data Analytics, Economics, Marketing, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- 2–5 years of experience in business analysis, commercial analytics, finance, sales operations, or data analysis.
- Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and large dataset management.
- Experience with ERP, CRM, BI, pricing, or data management systems.
- Strong ability to analyze SKU-, customer-, distributor-, and product-level data.
- Experience with pricing implementation, price increases, customer-specific pricing, SPA/discount structures, or margin analysis is an asset.
- Familiarity with Sigma, Power BI, Tableau, or similar BI tools.
- Ability to interpret business requirements, validate assumptions, and deliver reliable analysis under tight timelines.
- Strong documentation, process mapping, issue tracking, and business communication skills.
- Experience in manufacturing, industrial distribution, B2B sales, or multi-channel distribution is an asset.
- Full professional proficiency in English is required due to regular interaction with international stakeholders. Professional proficiency in French is a strong asset.
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About Walter Surface Technologies
For over 70 years, WALTER Surface Technologies has been a global leader in metalworking and safety solutions and technologies by delivering high-performance abrasives, tooling, power tools, chemical solutions, personal protection equipment and welding-process solutions specifically designed for the metalworking industry. As a company, we continuously design and develop new tools and solutions based on our three pillars: Productivity, Safety, and Customer Experience, with the goal of contributing to our customers’ success by helping them work better. Founded in 1952, WALTER Surface Technologies regularly expands its product offering through innovation but also through acquisitions (DRILLCO, TRIUMPH, ARCONE, AEROCHEM, and ALLEGRO) and strives to deliver first-class service through its team, present in 7 countries in North and South America. This allows us to grow our breath of solutions to cover all metalworkers’ needs, providing customers with the means to achieve greatness.
Depuis plus de 70 ans, WALTER Technologies pour surfaces est un leader mondial des solutions et technologies de travail des métaux et de sécurité en fournissant des abrasifs, des outils, des solutions chimiques, des équipements de protection individuelle et des solutions de soudage. Chez WALTER, nous concevons et développons de nouveaux outils et solutions basés sur nos trois piliers: Productivité, Sécurité et Expérience client, dans le but de contribuer au succès de nos clients en les aidant à mieux travailler. Fondée en 1952, WALTER élargit régulièrement son offre de produits par l'innovation mais aussi par les acquisitions (DRILLCO, TRIUMPH, ARCONE, AEROCHEM et ALLEGRO) et s'efforce de fournir un service de première classe grâce à son équipe, présente dans 7 pays d'Amérique du Nord et du Sud. Cela nous permet de développer notre éventail de solutions pour couvrir tous les besoins des métallurgistes, offrant aux clients les moyens d'atteindre l'excellence.