Consumer Products & Services

Driving price realization for unique business challenges.
Whether selling direct-to-consumer via e-commerce channels, creating sell-in strategies to big box stores, or designing tailored services with homeowners while on-site, we understand the unique pricing challenges consumer products and service businesses face.
It’s critical for these businesses to clearly understand how customers behave in different channels and markets so they can make smarter, more profitable decisions. This is why every partnership begins with a deep analysis of all available data, ingested and aggregated by our in-house data engineering team. In a matter of days, INSIGHT provides companies with granular visibility of customer and channel profitability and a deeper understanding of how various pricing programs affect EBITDA across customers, products/services, regions, end markets, channels, and more.
Then, we lead market intelligence studies designed to answer your most critical questions, such as price sensitivity or competitive pricing, to build confidence around your pricing decisions. This combination of data engineering and market intelligence enables never-seen-before visibility and ‘aha moments’ to inform optimal business decisions.
From value-based pricing to promotion spend optimization, INSIGHT works tirelessly to uncover, capture, and realize growth opportunities. We work side by side with your team to develop implementation plans, build internal capabilities, and integrate feedback loops for continuous improvement. Our data scientists and industry experts work alongside your team to ensure we are leveraging big data insights, market trends, and your unique business objectives to drive price realization and desired EBITDA outcomes.
Common Challenges
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Clear & Relevant Value Proposition
Ensure your company’s value proposition is both clear and relevant to your consumers. Then, ensure your pricing strategy, from promotions to invoicing, aligns with your value proposition.
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Competitive Landscape
Who do you compete with and what is your plan to win? Competing with everyone on everything is futile. Align your pricing and assortment strategies to position yourself appropriately versus your competitors while meeting customer expectations.
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Customer Behavior
Do you know which customers and products or services are more price-sensitive? Incorporate price sensitivity and other customer behaviors, such as purchase criteria, into your pricing to maximize profitability while maintaining a desired brand image and competitive position.
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Customer & Channel Profitability
Promotions, discounts, advertising, samples, rebates, restocking fees, credit card fees, freight, product mix… countless elements affect your bottom-line profitability, many of which go unnoticed and unmeasured. We can help you understand your complete cost to serve at a granular level, how it varies by customer and channel, and how to shift your pricing programs best to maximize profits.
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Trade Promotion Spend
Do you know your typical return on trade promotion spend and how well it stacks up versus best-in-class benchmarks? Learn how you can reinvest the “tail” to drive greater profitability.
What Our Clients Are Saying
Sales & Product Director, Residential Services
SVP Marketing, Durable Goods Distributor
President, Apparel Manufacturer
SVP Finance & Operations, Residential Services
Meet Our Experts
With over 250 dedicated pricing strategy experts, our team helps businesses achieve profit and EBITDA growth through our process proven on over 800 engagements since our founding in 2006.
Andy Voelker
Andy is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT bringing over 20 years of strategy consulting experience, specializing in pricing, analytics, strategy and operations. He has led numerous B2C pricing and commercial strategy engagements at INSIGHT and has deep retail experience as an operator.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Andy spent 10 years at Ace Hardware, where he held multiple leadership positions encompassing all aspects of cost/price management and analytics to support the merchandising organization. Prior to joining Ace Hardware, Andy spent 10 years in Accenture’s retail practice focusing on pricing and promotion strategy and operations.
Examples of Andy’s experience include:
- Built a team of 16 analytical professionals focused on managing wholesale and retail profitability through analytics and cost/retail management
- Led a complete redesign of cost change management process, technology and reporting, leading to greater efficiency, accuracy and visibility
- Effectively navigated an entire organization through tariffs, pandemic-related pricing and supply challenges, and historic rates of inflation, all while growing profitability and maintaining competitiveness
- Led a team of more than 35 professionals focused on improving productivity of retail model through store planning, space and assortment planning, retail pricing, power aisle, store environment and GNFR
Andy earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Charles Lukkes
Charles is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT, leveraging over 25 years of pricing experience in both industry and consulting services. He has driven price realization and building pricing capabilities across a multitude of clients. Charles has experience in developing and leading price realization strategies across multiple organizations with revenues exceeding $1B during his tenure as a consultant and industry practitioner.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Charles worked for Booz & Co. as a general management consultant developing and implementing pricing strategies and capabilities globally. He also created and led strategic pricing teams for several large consumer packaged goods companies, building capabilities and price strategies from the ground up.
Examples of Charles’ experience include:
- Established pricing teams, processes, analytics and governance for a large food/snack manufacturer in the U.S. and Australia/New Zealand; developed pricing strategies across the portfolio, achieving +3% price realization while mitigating channel conflict
- Provided a price quoting tool for an industrial client in the U.S. and Europe that incorporated key value drivers of new products, enabling the client to capture more value from new offerings driving substantial revenue improvement
- Developed a new pricing strategy for a software provider that resulted in a +30% increase in revenue by capturing true value provided to their client’s versus selling, transitioning from a software license to subscription model
Charles earned his MBA and B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
James Padget
James is a Director at INSIGHT2PROFIT. He has 10 years of experience in strategy consulting, pricing and commercial strategy consulting, and corporate & commercial strategy roles. He specializes in pricing strategy & commercial excellence with a diverse industry background spanning both B2B and B2C sectors, both as a consultant and industry leader. James takes the lead on several projects within INSIGHT’s portfolio, with typical client engagements ranging greater than 1 year.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, James served as a Director of Pricing Strategy at The Home Depot and Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. Additionally, he worked in Corporate Strategy & Business Development at ADP and Strategy & Analytics Consulting at IBM.
Examples of James’s experience include:
- Led a project for a B2C graduation supplies company, achieving $10M EBITDA improvement in 6 months through value-based pricing, market surveys, competitor web price scrapes, and transaction data
- Directed a $30M pricing excellence strategy for a $1.5B B2B seller of uniform and facilities supplies, addressing margin leakage, price variance, cost headwinds, and commercial gaps
James earned his MBA in Decision Sciences from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, and a B.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Jenna Mustar
Jenna is a Senior Manager at INSIGHT2PROFIT with over 15 years of professional experience in financial analysis, pricing, portfolio management, project management and process improvement.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Jenna held several positions at KeyBank where she was responsible for establishing a group focused on retaining and cross-selling their top 300+ merchant services clients. She was also responsible for pricing and portfolio analytics across various areas including finance, payments, and collections. Jenna began her career as an Actuarial Analyst at Willis Towers Watson (formerly Watson Wyatt Worldwide) within the retirement practice while completing four actuarial exams.
Examples of Jenna’s experience include:
- Drove over $23M in annual impact for a leading precisions aerospace components and specialty structures company across 15+ businesses by providing pricing guidance and implementing change management strategies, also provided visibility to the private equity firm on the performance of their investments
- Delivered over 20% annual revenue growth for a $1.2B food distributor while maintaining margins through differentiated weekly list price recommendations for buyers and daily sale price recommendations to sales via direct integration into their ERP system
- Led margin growth of 3% and enhanced visibility into the business for a B2B facilities maintenance service provider through the direct integration into their Salesforce instance of a pricing and dispatch model to optimize both profit and service
- Provided price recommendations to sales of a leading telecommunications provider through direct integration into their Salesforce instances by reducing unnecessary price variation across their business resulting in 5% reduction in discounting
Jenna earned a B.S. in Actuarial Science and a minor in Economics from The Ohio State University.
Matt Busch
Matt is the Senior Vice President of Private Equity at INSIGHT2PROFIT. With over 25 years of diverse experience in commercial, private equity, and management consulting industries, Matt enhances the Commercial Leadership Team’s knowledge of private equity clients’ challenges and identifying opportunities to deliver capabilities and unmatched value across all stages of the deal lifecycle.
Matt’s expertise spans the commercial landscape, encompassing pricing, revenue management, marketing, loyalty programs, sales, distribution, demand planning, inventory, and channel and merchandizing strategies across various industries. He collaborates with private equity firms and C-suite executives, including CEOs, Chief Commercial Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Data & Analytics Officers, Chief Revenue Officers, Chief Risk Officers, Chief Digital Officers, and other leaders to develop targeted strategies aimed at maximizing enterprise value and minimizing risk.
Before joining INSIGHT, Matt led strategy and oversaw the delivery of large-scale value creation projects in diverse industries. He built and managed high-performing client relationship organizations and played a key role in transformative turnarounds and growth initiatives at companies such as Equifax and Revenue Analytics.
Matt earned his B.S. in Management from Southern Cross University.
Shelton Evans
Shelton is a Director at INSIGHT2PROFIT. Shelton has over 5 years of experience leading and supporting clients in revenue management, profitability strategies, and execution. He has led engagements with more than ten clients at INSIGHT, spanning across more than 7 industries, including aerospace parts distribution, telecommunication services, field services, and consumer packaged goods. His expertise encompasses diverse channels, including B2B, B2C, and B2G. While Shelton prioritizes the establishment of meaningful pricing and profitability strategies for his clients his primary goal is to deliver tangible outcomes that provide significant ROI. Shelton has driven over $100M of margin improvement during his time at INSIGHT and led engagements spanning North America and EMEA.
Examples of Shelton’s experience include:
- Led a $50M+ margin improvement for a leading field services provider with more than 40 locations through a differentiated price increase, new pricing architecture, and enhanced leakage management
- Drove improvement in product adoption through the development of a go-to-market subscription and bundling pricing and product strategy for a telecommunications provider
- Delivered a 5% improvement to gross margins for an advanced materials company through net price increases, refined pricing architecture, price-performance management system, and the support of the development of a pricing function
Shelton earned his B.S. in International Business, Finance and Accounting from Baldwin Wallace University.
Tom Jacobson
Tom is a Senior Advisor at INSIGHT and partners with C-Suite executives to architect major pricing and commercial strategy transformations, bringing deep expertise in digital commerce, negotiations, and customer and market analytics. A globally recognized thought-leader, author, and key contributor to several books including Selling Through Someone Else, The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management, and Contextual Pricing, Tom is frequently cited in the press for his perspectives on consumer behavior, price, and luxury. Tom brings a unique perspective to his work, and trains client leaders and sales teams on mastering the role of brain chemistry in negotiation effectiveness.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Tom spent 15 years as the global leader of Accenture’s Pricing and Commercial Strategy Practice and was a member of the NA Leadership Team of CEO and Growth Strategy. He served in an executive role at a price and profit optimization software company and has held various leadership positions in consulting and industry.
Tom has a graduate level education in both Psychology and Finance/Strategy.
Steven Blanck
Steve is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT, with over 18 years of experience as a strategy and operations leader. His expertise covers various areas including commercial due diligence, financial due diligence, growth strategy, M&A integrations, and pricing. Steve has advised executives, private equity managers, and functional leadership teams in establishing the vision, structure, process, and technology for achieving long-term, sustainable transformations.
Examples of Steve’s experience include:
- Developed a pricing platform for a leading professional services automation SaaS platform, driving a 20% improvement in client renewal rates over multiple years and achieving a 5-6% realized price increase in the first year, implemented a customer success model that analyzed target pricing based on factors like cost to serve, upsell and cross-sell potential
- Achieved a 15% EBIT recurring price improvement for a global client in the medical device parts industry, led the development efforts for the existing customer base, overseeing a full process re-engineering of pricing model and processes, implemented the client’s first quoting tool, facilitating quicker turnaround and more profitable deals
- Delivered over $6M in price impact for a leading North American customs brokerage business, created a complex client outlier to identify target pricing and added a salesforce enablement tool to enhance visibility into customer performance and revenue growth opportunities
Steve earned his MBA in Finance, Strategy, and Managerial Economics from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management and his B.A. in Political Science and Government from Northwestern University.
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