Overview
This role develops, analyzes, and optimizes pricing strategies to support profitability and competitiveness. The position uses analysis of market trends, customer behavior, and internal cost structures to align pricing initiatives across business units. Cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Finance, Operations, and Category Management is central to delivering insights and recommendations that inform pricing and profitability decisions.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain pricing models and tools to evaluate current and future pricing strategies.
- Lead in-depth pricing analyses, including price elasticity, discount effectiveness, and win/loss rate by price point.
- Recommend pricing actions aligned with organizational objectives for revenue, margin, and market share.
- Lead cross-functional pricing initiatives and support contract negotiations with data-driven input.
- Partner with Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Sales to ensure pricing assumptions align with business goals.
- Monitor pricing compliance, assess discounting behavior, and identify opportunities for optimization.
- Identify pricing anomalies, inconsistencies, or leakage and recommend corrective action.
- Evaluate pricing implications of new product launches, packaging changes, and contract structures.
- Support the design and testing of new pricing structures (e.g., usage-based, tiered) in partnership with the Pricing Strategy Manager.
- Report on pricing KPIs and performance to senior leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Statistics, or related field (Master’s a plus).
- 4+ years of experience in pricing analysis, revenue management, or financial analysis.
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in tools such as Excel, SQL, and data visualization platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
- Experience building pricing models and frameworks in a business setting.
- Solid understanding of pricing theory, elasticity, margin analysis, and cost structures.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with ERP and CPQ systems (e.g., Infor, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce).
- Experience with pricing optimization tools (e.g., Revenue Analytics, PROS, Zilliant, or similar) is a plus.
- Familiarity with statistical modeling and predictive analytics.
- Working knowledge of Python or R for advanced analysis.
Key Skills & Competencies
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to balance profitability with market competitiveness.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex pricing issues to non-technical audiences.
- High attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
- Strategic thinker with a proactive, collaborative approach.
- Ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines.
Compensation & Benefits
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Workplace Notices
- This is a drug-free workplace. Alcohol and drug misuse poses a threat to health and safety and the security of equipment and facilities. Employees may be subject to drug screening if safety concerns arise or if reasonable suspicion is warranted.
- Unsolicited resumes are not accepted from recruiters or employment agencies. Without a signed Recruiting Agreement, no referral compensation or recruiter fees will be paid. Resumes submitted without a previously signed agreement may be pursued and hired without financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of the employer.