Manager, Pricing & Analytics

by Irma Moore | Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorized

JOB DESCRIPTION

You’re an original. So are we.

We’re a company of people who like to forge our own path. We invented the blue jean in 1873, and we reinvented khaki pants in 1986. We pioneered labor and environmental guidelines in manufacturing. And we work to build sustainability into everything we do. Our brands stand for freedom and self-expression around the world.

Where we lead, others follow. For more than 160 years, we’ve used the strength of our brands to lead with our values and make an outsized impact on the world. We employ more than 15,000 people globally to support our great brands: Levi’s®, Dockers®, Denizen®, Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.™ and Beyond Yoga.

The Pricing & Analytics Manager will focus on setting prices in collaboration with merchants and conducting margin reviews. You will also generate pricing reports, develop and enhance pricing tools, and conduct research. This role is remote-friendly. You will report into our Sr. Manager, Pricing, Promotions, and Analytics.

About the Job

Pricing & Promotion:

• Lead the seasonal pricing setup with partners to ensure accurate input.
• Conduct revenue and margin reviews alongside merchants, finance, and planning teams.
• Develop a strategic pricing architecture with consumers at the core, protecting company KPIs for USCA across all categories.
• Perform scenario modeling for potential price moves, providing guidance and consultation on optimal pricing.
• Monitor currency for Canada pricing.
• Ensure accurate execution of seasonal pricing for PC9s, late additions, SMUs, and licensing.
• Evaluate and assign promotions in collaboration with various teams.

Strategic Analytics & Reporting:

• Produce and provide accurate, insightful reports and ad hoc basis, analyzing an omnichannel marketplace to guide pricing optimization.
• Provide quantitative and qualitative consumer insights, monitor competition trends, and propose market improvements.
• Conduct detailed analytics for product performance reporting (monthly/quarterly) and present findings.

Competitive Landscape:

• Analyze each category’s price points, architecture, and latest trends.
• Monitor pricing trends over time for each competitor.
• Track keywords, patterns, and emerging market trends.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Marketing, or a related field.
• 3 or more years of experience in pricing, analytics, or a related field within the retail or consumer goods industry.
• Experience generating detailed reports and actionable insights.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and software (e.g., Excel (can perform complex functions) or other BI tools).
• Experience working with teams, including merchandising, finance, and planning.

The expected starting salary range for this role is $77,300-$120,000. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on the location of the role. The amount a particular employee will earn within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance and business needs.

Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive plans, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, meet your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending upon the specifics of the role; details relating to a specific role will be made available upon request.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits or other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Levi Strauss & Co. is committed to equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and recruiting and maintaining a workforce that welcomes and respects people from diverse backgrounds while enabling our employees to make an impact. We value the unique combination of talents, experiences, and perspectives of each employee, making our collective success possible.

We put a lot of thought into our programs to provide you with a benefits package that matters. Whether it is for medical care, taking time off, improving your health or planning for retirement, we’ve got you covered. Here’s a small snapshot:

• 401K match: $1.25 for every $1.00 you contribute up to the first 6% of pay you save.
• Five hours of paid volunteer time per month with nonprofit organizations
• Product discount of 60% off regular-price merchandise
• Paid Family Leave

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EOE M/F/Disability/Vets

LOCATION

Remote – USA

FULL TIME/PART TIME

Full time

Senior Accountant – Health Care 

by Irma Moore | Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorized

Kforce’s client, a health care services company headquartered in NY is seeking a Senior Accountant for a 100% remote role. This is a broad-based month end close and financial statement preparation role. Summary: This is a well-funded, early stage, private equity owned company. Even though this is early stage, this is a large, acquisitive company with 8 different divisions already. This company has a leadership team that has created a friendly and collaborative culture. The Senior Accountant will work with the best of the best including a world class CFO and Controller. This office is 100% remote. This is a great work life balance job. Although hours are generally 8 am to 5 pm ET, there will be plenty of opportunity for flexible start and end times when needed. Duties will include:

• Month end-close
• General ledger
• Journal entries
• Account analysis
• Account reconciliation
• Accruals
• Fixed assets
• Acquisition accounting

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required
• Master’s degree is a plus
• CPA is a plus
• Over 2 years of experience
• Public accounting experience is a plus
• Audit background is a plus
• Health care services experience, either in audit or a staff accountant is a plus

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

by Irma Moore | Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorized

Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.

Our Engineering and Analytics Team Members utilize the latest technology to develop, monitor, and maintain complex practices that help optimize our success.  Our Team Members value being challenged, are encouraged to express their ideas, and have the flexibility to enjoy work life balance.  We build intrinsic value by partnering with all functions of our business to support their success and make strategic business decisions.  We focus on professional development and continuous improvement while enjoying a casual work environment and Great Place to Work culture!As a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will blend your expertise in software development and testing to ensure the quality and reliability of our software products. Your primary focus will be on leveraging strong software engineering principles to design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement in our testing processes and contribute to the overall success of our software development lifecycle.

Outcomes and Activities:

• This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required.  However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member.
• Design and develop software and improve existing code to make it more efficient to detect bugs in the code
• Actively participate in the automation community
• Help develop and complete testing strategies for work that spans multiple applications
• Present ideas and build buy in from the rest of the automation engineers for new services or standards
• Keep up to date on different uses and approaches to automation testing and review the value of those new testing services, practices or standards within our team.
• Write unit-tests and validate your software against acceptance criteria
• Evolve and transform the design and architecture of applications towards leading edge technologies and practices
• Author, apply and advocate for team coding, documenting and testing standards
• Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify impact of a change across multiple applications
• Learn the business process domain to better support the business and align technologies with the business process
• Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions
• Lead code reviews and communicate application changes
• Document code and projects so others can easily understand, maintain and support
• Debug the problems which arise in production and propose effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications
• Read, write and review design documents
• Contribute to team’s sprint commitments and actively participate in our Agile practices, including recommendations for process improvement
• Lead continuous learning activities to improve design and code quality as well as to increase application domain knowledge
• Participate in the talent selection process
• Act as a mentor to guide and review the code, designs and documentation of less experienced Automation engineers 

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Development: Develops solutions using standards and best practices of the applications language.  Writes code that implements the design that is testable, extensible, efficient and maintainable.
• Impact Analysis: Understand the rationale behind and how changes impact the enterprise and/or applications and across the technical ecosystem.
• Solution Design: Ability to translate high level requirements to create and implement designs that meet the needs of the customer, are technically sound, maintainable and cost effective. Ability to identify missing or ambiguous requirements. Ability to design at both high and low levels of abstraction, understand complex requirements and translate into understandable solutions. Ability to accurately estimate based on requirements.
• Technical Domain: Have an understanding of the technical domain, including the application architecture, design and data of the application they support and systems to which it interfaces.
• Facilitation Techniques: Organize, support and/or conduct workshops, meetings, presentations specific to the objectives of each, problem to be solve, and needs of the audience.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience
• Minimum 8 years of experience in automation using Keyword/Behavior Driven Development, Web Front Ends, APIs, and databases
• Advanced understanding of testing practices and services
• Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of software engineering talent across multiple applications
• Strong understanding and use of one or more object-oriented programming languages and design patterns
• Practical experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile/SCRUM and Waterfall
• Practical experience in data modeling, design and messaging
• Experience working on mission-critical enterprise class applications
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor less experienced team members
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation

Preferred:

• Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of software engineering talent
• Advanced understanding of automation testing practices, BDD, Keywords, and Automation services
• Experience with automating test for API calls, web front ends, SQL backends, and load testing.
• Experience in mobile application testing and flutter applications.
• Experience creating and implementing an QA Automation team
• Consistent and regular participation in the QA automation community.
• Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger or similar tools desirable
• In-depth usage and creation of application programming interfaces (API) and frameworks in their particular field: JSON, Rest/SOAP based Web Services, JUnit, Jenkins and Bitbucket preferred
• Ability to create database objects and relationships, construct advanced queries, and optimize query performance
• Financial services industry experience

Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to challenge the status quo and influence stakeholders to create innovative solutions
• Be collaborative with other team members, seeking a diversity of thought to meet business outcomes
• Ability to foster strong relationships across the organization
• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Experience and understanding of how to connect the work being done and how it drives business value
• Ability to communicate complex technical information (both verbal and written) to all levels, including senior leadership

Software Engineering Manager II, Consumer

by Irma Moore | Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorized

Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.

Our Engineering and Analytics Team Members utilize the latest technology to develop, monitor, and maintain complex practices that help optimize our success.  Our Team Members value being challenged, are encouraged to express their ideas, and have the flexibility to enjoy work life balance.  We build intrinsic value by partnering with all functions of our business to support their success and make strategic business decisions.  We focus on professional development and continuous improvement while enjoying a casual work environment and Great Place to Work culture!

Outcomes and Activities:

• The position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member. ​
• Leads and mentors team members on essential agile and product mindset tenets including early learning, self-organized teams, cross functionality, customer obsession, outcome focused, incremental delivery and test driven.
• Participates in work planning processes to ensure the most important work is aligned to the appropriate team, that work is broken down enough that outcomes can be delivered incrementally. 
• Leads and mentors cross functional team members on building world class products that deliver customer delight and business value
• Designs solutions to meet requirements for initiatives involving multiple team applications as well as applications owned by other teams.
• Supports delivery teams to ensure process and technology standards are consistently followed to enable consistent delivery of value.
• Develops and tracks delivery metrics while monitoring technical health of the product, informs progress toward delivery goals, and provides support appropriately when needed.
• Builds effective teams by ensuring you have the right people and setting clear expectations
• Monitors and evaluates team performance and continuously coach and mentor team members
• Sets up your team for operational success by having a sound understanding on the system ecosystem, architecture, technologies and system domains and how these are used to achieve business outcomes.
• Is an active participant in on-call escalation and incident management

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Customer Empathy: Customer Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives, pain points, and experiences of customers. It involves actively putting oneself in the customer’s shoes, comprehending their needs and challenges, and using that understanding to provide a better, more customer-centric experience
• Engineering Excellence: Engineering Excellence is about bringing great craftsmanship and thought leadership to deliver an outstanding product that delights customers and solves for the business. This involves the pursuit and achievement of high standards, best practices, innovation, and superior solutions
• One Team: A One Team mindset refers to a collaborative approach across the organization, where individuals work together seamlessly, without boundaries, as a single, cohesive team. Shared goals, open communication and mutual support create a sense of collective purpose. This enables teams to navigate challenges and pursue shared objectives more effectively
• Owner’s Mindset: Owner’s Mindset involves adopting a set of behaviors that reflect a sense of responsibility, accountability, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to managing your domain. As an owner, you understand the business and your domain(s) deeply and solve for the right outcome for the domain(s) and the business

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading engineering teams.
• Proven experience in technical leadership, capable of providing mentorship, cross-functional project execution, setting and executing on technical vision and strategy
• Extensive experience implementing Agile and DevOps practices including but not limited to test driven, incremental releases, continuous integration, and deployment pipeline automation.
• Experience in microservices design strategies and implementation including migration planning, service granularity, interservice communication, traceability, orchestration, and failure isolation
• Experience with Cloud migrations and working in a mixed on-prem / cloud environment (container orchestration, security, serverless)

Preferred Experience:

• 4 years’ experience of leading initiatives in a Java ecosystem
• Architecting and building solutions in AWS using EKS, Lambda, S3, and/or Aurora
• Track record of identifying opportunities to improve outcomes via new tools and approaches, evaluating and measuring candidate solutions, and successfully advocating for their adoption
• Experience applying appropriate levels of transactional and race condition-resilient approaches, including database locking, distributed transactions (XA), SAGA pattern
• Ability to describe and design decoupled system transaction models that are resilient to upstream and downstream outages with appropriate recovery models
• Experience implementing and operationalizing rules engines

Knowledge and Skills:

• Thought leader with deep technical expertise with the proven ability to influence and partner with business to innovate and drive outcomes
• Ability to communicate complex technical information (both verbal and written) to all levels, including senior leadership
• Ability to solve problems at the source by offering simple, working solutions.
• Anticipates the impact of a change or project across multiple systems.
• Responds promptly and effectively to resolve incidents, tasks, and projects.
• Demonstrated ability and motivation to teach others
• Ability to gain trust of others and builds solid relationships across and vertically throughout the organization
• Effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Targeted Total Compensation: $218,500 – $416,250. Total compensation is comprised of a competitive base salary, equity, and an annual variable compensation package.

Senior Network Engineer

by Irma Moore | Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorized

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to be responsible for providing advanced technical support to maintain products and services, perform testing and coordination, use of CLR, vendor management, escalations, and other duties related to maintaining the network. The Senior Network Engineer works independently under minimal supervision. Performs a wide spectrum of moderately difficult assignments requiring alternative analysis, innovation, and judgment. Assumes all routine tasks for major or multiple projects, and is periodically called upon to make un-reviewed decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Performs advanced troubleshooting/diagnostics to identify problem areas for resolution.
• Work directly with the NCC and TAC for overall health of the network.
• Tracks trouble resolutions, provides ticket updates and other information to customers.
• Runs tests, checks processes, and manages complex repair coordination activities.
• Leads the  technicians and dispatches field technicians to provide maintenance/repairs and service.
• Performs remote testing, coordinates off-net testing, and performs escalations.
• Interacts with customers; attends customer meetings, and maintains knowledge of customer needs.
• Gather information and provide network data analysis.
• Provides technical consultation/coaching, and mentoring for technicians and staff.
• Participates in quality control, performance/process improvement measurement & tracking: assists in developing policies & procedures.
• Assists in identifying training needs.
• Work directly with vendors as required for special network deployments.
• Constantly watching the network for issues and alerting the NCC when one is identified.
• Running scripts across the network looking for inconsistencies or required updates.
• Work directly with telemetry when console access to all devices is not provided or down.
• Work directly with Coresupport/Engineering on network integrations and special projects.
• Create and deploy Maintenance Requests for after-hours network augments.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience.  
• Minimum 7 (seven) years working in a service provider role
• Optical vendor certifications preferred (Ciena / Infinera / Nokia)
• Technical Project Management experience
• Proficient with SONET/DWDM Network Configurations
• Must have experience with Ciena 6500 /Infinera/Alcatel PSS-32/16.
• Ability to create/modify DWDM/SONET services (DS3 to 100GIG)
• Flexible schedule to support the deployment of after-hours maintenance requests
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, conveying technical language in a concise manner.  
• Detail oriented.
• Flexible and adapts well to a constantly changing environment

Base Salary Range: $95,800 – $143,745, commensurate with experience

Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
• Fitness membership discounts
• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.