Pricing Analyst, Marketing (3023695 KROCK)

Key Responsibilities

o Analyze market trends and create associated reports for iconic models for marketing and sales management and proactively identify pricing opportunities and compliance
- Maintain and disseminate weekly pricing "dashboards"
- Monitor and provide consolidated view of competitor activities observed in the marketplace
o Preparation of analysis for price list and price policy discussions
- Analyze product volume, margin and competitive prices to provide guidance and pricing recommendations (e.g. proposed prices and overall impact) in the price setting process
- Provide accurate and detailed facts to assist management in determining pricing guidelines for products by account/channel
- Coordinate or obtain key data from the pricing systems for the analyses, perform quality control
- Provide analytical support to field sales on pricing and promotions decisions
- Analyze impact post price changes

Necessary Skills or Experience

o Minimum job requirements - the individual must have an undergraduate business degree or other discipline that requires extensive quantitative knowledge.  In addition, the individual should have demonstrated professional and academic success (e.g. graduated in top 25% of class; consistently received top evaluations at prior job).  Three to four years of business experience is preferred.
o Analytical skills - the individual must be able to synthesize marketing and pricing information to draw insights and actionable recommendations (e.g., structure the problem, collect data, identify issues and present results)
o Marketing experience/understanding - in addition to pricing, the individual should have a basic understanding of marketing
o Computer skills - familiarity with computers and advance knowledge of Microsoft Excel is required.
o Communication skills - the individual must have advanced writing and communication skills, and be able to interact and persuade individuals levels senior to him or her, as well as actively coordinate with individuals from various parts of the organization (e.g. systems, division operations, sales).
o Must be able to work in a dynamic and low data environment, e.g., able to problem solve issues using multiple sources of information