Pricing Analyst

Pricing Analyst:

General Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct market research, regular product pricing and profitability analyses. Make recommendations to department leadership of strategic price changes.
• Identify and present growth opportunities within existing product portfolio and customer base.
• Monitor daily marketing pricing market changes for all product; propose price adjustments as needed to the relevant department for approval.
• Coordinate with cross-functional departments as needed for approvals, and for the completion of tasks that enable the execution of approved price changes.
• Create supporting Bid Analyses and communicate the rationale behind recommended strategies. A strong business acumen and analytical capability is key for success in this area.
• Conduct regular market assessments for price adjustment needs/opportunities; recommend price changes as needed to Business Development department for approval and Pricing & Contracts for processing.
• Analyze competitive landscape utilization estimates provided by the government to historical market data in order to validate customer projections for the Business Development and Contracts teams.
• Monitor competitor behavior and continuously improve strategies for proactively maintaining our desired price strategies and profitability.
• Develop and present compelling data-driven analyses of pricing, sales, and operational data.
• Support Sales Operations, Business Development, and Customer Service teams with necessary cadenced and ad-hoc analyses
• Leverage existing analytics, create new reporting, and develop new dashboards using PowerBI to conduct analyses on price trends, competitive landscape, market share, demand, and product sales activities.
• Execute and report on pricing strategies developed by the Commercial Team, to drive continuous improvement and refinement of pricing operations and effectiveness'
• Under direction from management, develop reports and Power BI visualizations to make summaries available for decision-making.
• Regularly retrieve raw market data for ETL processing (Extract, Transform, Load).

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant commercial analytics & business/sales support experience
• Mastery-level Excel skills including knowledge of advanced functions such as lookups, conditional programming (i.e., if/then), data validation (e.g., data lists), formatting, etc.
• Demonstrates a high degree of initiative and ability to work collaboratively.
• Demonstrated history of increasing responsibilities with successful outcomes.
• Highly comfortable working in a team setting, taking direction, and recommending continuous improvements.
• Accomplishments that reflect teamwork, integrity, and accountability.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a demanding environment and deliver quality results in a growing organization.
• Must have experience building dashboards using Microsoft Power BI data visualization tool.
• Strong PowerPoint skills with the ability to create attractive operational and metric driven collateral.
• Effective communication skills including ability to structure ideas and conversations to effectively present findings from research and analysis.

Education/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of relevant experience; or Associates degree and 3 years of relevant experience; or High school diploma / GED and 5 years of relevant experience

Miscellaneous Requirements:

• Maintain a strong attendance record
• Must be able to pass drug screening, and background check. Adhere to company’s drug-free workplace policies
• Must be flexible and able to change direction quickly

Physical/Cognitive Requirements:

• Ability to move freely throughout the facility
• Ability to sit for long periods at a time
• Ability to lift, carry objects of up to 25lbs