About the role
We are looking for a highly motivated, delivery-focused self-starter with exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities to join our growing team. You have a can-do attitude and thrive on working in a multi-cultural team environment. In addition to a solid technical background, you have excellent interpersonal skills and strong communication skills.
You will be responsible for generating competitor intelligence data using our state-of-the art web scraping tools. This role is central to our commercial decision-making process and as such you will be working with a range of internal and external stakeholders across the pricing and development community.
Primary responsibilities
What you will do:
• Build and schedule web scraping agents to collect and store competitive intelligence data across multiple sources and countries
• Design and monitor end-to-end ETL processes to ensure reliable and consistent flow of information to support the different business functions
• Respond to structural changes in website configuration and perform pro-active maintenance on scraping agents to prevent data-loss
• Create new and/or optimize existing scripts to accelerate harvesting process and/or improve data quality
• Create reusable data assets ready for analysis
• Advocate for data quality, governance, and product thinking
• Create an automated review-and-correct feedback loop on scraping output
• Leverage competitor intelligence to benefit product-matching process
• Publish your findings and report progress to the team in weekly reviews
• Communicate output and processes to different internal stakeholders
Serve as main technical point of contact for external service providers
Support Global Pricing & Promotions team with analytical intelligence on demand
Provide documentation and train business users on data use and interpretation
About the company
Pens.com's personalized promotional products are created for and inspired by small businesses. With 56 years of experience and serving 22 countries worldwide, Pens.com offers MORE value, savings and time to customers through expert guidance on a broad range of personalized promotional products, including writing instruments, stationery, drinkware, bags, gifts, and trade show accessories. Pens.com operates via a network of more than 10 facilities across North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.