
Manager, National Pricing
Job Description
Basic Function
HF Sinclair in Dallas, TX is seeking a Manager, National Pricing. The National Pricing manager is responsible for managing the company’s national fuel pricing strategy across all brands, regions, markets, and channels. This role drives profitable growth by balancing competitive market positioning with disciplined margin management. The National Pricing Manager oversees the Gravitate Pricing Engine (GPE), ensuring data-driven pricing execution that adapts to real-ime rack movements, market volatility, and regional dynamics. Collaborating closely with sales, supply, operations, and commercial teams, this position ensures that branded and unbranded pricing strategies work in tandem to optimize total enterprise profitability.
Job Duties
- Margin & Market Management: Monitor national GPE performance to identify trends, margin pressures, and opportunities across Gasoline and ULSD; recommend strategic adjustments to sustain target margins.
- Branded vs. Unbranded Strategy: Manage the balance between brand equity protection and market responsiveness, ensuring both channels operate cohesively within overall profit objectives.
- Cross-FunctionalCollaboration: Partner with Sales, Supply, Operations, and Commercial teams to align pricing actions with cost structures, inventory positions, and competitive conditions.
- Analytical Governance: Manage pricing frameworks, thresholds, and guardrails to ensure consistency, transparency, and accountability across all regional pricing operations.
- Vendor Relationship Management: Oversee key pricing and market intelligence vendor partnerships - including OPIS, DTN, Gravitate, and MarketView.
- Performance Reporting: Deliver clear, data-driven insights and reporting on pricing trends, differential compression, and optimization outcomes.
- Market Intelligence: Stay ahead of market developments, including rack volatility, DTN integrations, Gravitate future releases, and competitor dynamics, to inform proactive pricing adjustments.
- Leadership & Development: Mentor and guide regional pricing analysts to enhance analytical capability, decision quality, and alignment with enterprise strategy.
Key Deliverables:
- Monthly Optimization Reviews: Quantify pricing optimization impact by product and region, identifying realized margin gains or compression drivers.
- Branded vs. Unbranded Margin Management: Maintain strategic spread discipline while capturing incremental value through unbranded optimization.
- Rack Responsiveness: Ensure GPE-driven price alignment of major rack movements to sustain competitive positioning.
- Differential Compression Analysis: Track and report monthly shifts in price differentials between branded and unbranded products, highlighting optimization outcomes.
- Performance Dashboards: Publish regional pricing and margin dashboards to give leadership real-time visibility into market behavior and profitability.
- Strategic Refresh: Participate in quarterly strategy reviews and annual pricing overhauls to align market tactics with evolving corporate and market objectives.
Special assignments or tasks assigned to the employee by their superiors, as determined from time to time in their sole and complete discretion
Gravitate Pricing Engine Oversight: Lead the development, calibration, and continuous optimization of the Gravitate Pricing Engine, ensuring adaptive responses to rack movements, competitive shifts, and demand signals.
Experience
A minimum of five to ten years of job-specific work experience.
Education Level
Required Skills
Critical thinking, strategic mindset, analytical with the ability to translate that into action.
Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility
Supervises the work of at least 3 professional staff members
Work Conditions
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Paid Time-Off
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with match
- Educational Reimbursement
- Parental Bonding Time
- Employee Discounts
Physical Requirements
Our One HF Sinclair Culture:
About HF Sinclair Corporation
Equal Opportunity Employer
HF Sinclair Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other prohibited ground of discrimination.