Founder Aaron Cowper introducing ShopGrok and it’s benefits.
Modern retail moves at an extremely fast pace and decision making has to follow suit. Faced with a number of challenges, retailers must embrace advanced retail analytics in order to outperform the competition. Competition in modern retail is fierce and data-driven decision making is the only way to ensure sustainable, profitable growth.
However, market data is difficult to capture in an accurate, complete and timely way, and even if it is captured the volume is so huge that it is increasingly challenging to distil insights from it and determine the right actions across a typical retailer’s range of tens and thousands of products.
First hand experience and identification of this gap in the market led to the birth of ShopGrok in 2018. Since then, we have focussed specifically on these painpoints to build a powerful suite of tools for practitioners that take the pain out of data capture and mapping, and get you to actionable insights within seconds. Today, we work with leading retailers and brands all over the world to help them achieve this vision.
We are a high performing team based in Sydney, Australia with two areas of expertise at our core: retail pricing and data analytics. We have built a team of experts in both these fields in order to deliver a suite of powerful but easy-to-use practitioners tools used by category management, brand management and pricing teams. Our founder Aaron Cowper was at one time the Head of Price Strategy and Analytics at Australia’s biggest supermarket, and previously as a McKinsey & Company strategy consultant serving retailers and consumer brands around the globe.
We strive to help our customers maintain competitive pricing and effective promotions across a compelling product range while maintaining healthy sales margins and revenue growth. It’s a very fine balance which requires deep insights in real-time about what’s happening in a particular market.
A typical retailer might have 20,000 to 100,000 products in their product range, but there may be only 100 products in that range that truly matter to customer price perception on any particular day. We help retail teams identify these products and optimise pricing accordingly.
Founder and CEO
Before founding ShopGrok, Aaron was Head of Price Strategy & Analytics at Australia’s largest supermarket retailer, and was previously a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He resides in his hometown of Sydney with his wife and 3 young kids.
Head of Analytics
Priyanshi has more than 10 years of experience in data analytics. Before joining ShopGrok, she was the Pricing Analytics manager at Australia’s largest supermarket. Priyanshi loves spending her time hiking, snorkelling, playing tennis or cuddling her two cats.
Software Engineer
Finley is a UNSW engineering student with a passion for designing software solutions to real-world problems. In his spare time, he loves using the Python programming language, and all things sport.
Software Engineer
Graduating from an Engineering and Computer Science degree (Swinburne University), Holly joined ShopGrok as a Software Engineer and currently resides in Tasmania. She loves to swim and is an electronics hobbyist.
Data Engineer
Anshul holds a Master’s of Data Science (Swinburne University) and has two years of experience in Analytics and Data Engineering. He loves to play Cricket and watch movies in his free time.
Support Engineer
Starting with ShopGrok as a Junior Support Engineer, Paranjay is an active and adventurous guy studying IT at King’s Own Institute, Sydney. In his spare time, he enjoys taking photos and videos of the many places he visits.
Data Engineer
Kaushik has three years of experience in technical consulting and Data Engineering. He holds a Master’s of Data Science (La Trobe University) and Bachelor’s of Engineering (University of Mumbai). He currently resides in Melbourne.
Junior Software Engineer
Currently enrolled at UNSW Engineering, Namit is a Future of Change Scholar who is enthusiastic about applying software to real-world problems. In his free time, he enjoys driving and listening to music.
Data Engineer
Data Engineer
Marketing Coordinator
Rafi is currently completing a Dual Bachelor of Arts with Sciences Po Paris & The University of Sydney. He resides in Sydney, having grown up as an expat in Hong Kong and Thailand. In his spare time he enjoys traveling, surfing and practicing martial arts.
Pricing is the #1 driver of profitability in any retail business, but most retailers leave it to gut feel and a remarkably incomplete picture of current market prices. Talk to us about how we can help you devise defensible long term pricing strategies.
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