Strategic Pricing Analyst (f/m/d)

at  Franke

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 3 years of work experience in pricing, analytical, BI, or finance roles; 1 year in a strategic pricing role.
• Experience working in global environment, multi-national responsibilities.
• Strong research and synthesis skills; be able to translate data into insights and actions.
• Experience with modeling techniques and pricing frameworks, including value and transactional pricing methodologies.
• Expert in evaluating and developing processes.
• Expert in using analytical and BI tools.
• Attention to detail, action-oriented, and results driven.
• Strong communication skills with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Famililarity with low-volume, high complexity business models.
• Moderate negotitaions skills and prior negotiations training preferred.

• Evaluate and understand current pricing methodologies then develop and execute future action plan to improve and simplify overall pricing policies and proce-dures.
• Establish improved pricing processes from day to day to long-term priorities and continue to evolve processes and procedures to ensure all aspects of operations are scalable and repeatable.
• Ensure global consistency of pricing for same/similar products and services.
• Price in the context of targeted customer profitability, contribution margin, and understand and guide price mix per customer.
• Work collaboratively with the regional leadership, finance, operations, sales, and product management teams to design and execute strategic pricing initiatives to help drive growth and profitability.
• Develop pricing models on negotiations for the sales teams, align with finance, and give the final content and guidelines to sales on what and how to negotiate.
• Work with the regional business teams to define and report metrics that support the business objectives and create performance transparency for effectiveness of pricing actions.
• Engage global and regional sales team and product management to establish actions for improvement in areas that show variance to pricing improvement ex-pectations and co-create plans with sales leadership to drive pricing results.
• Work with Procurement, looking at actual costs, raise the flags, and drive price increase actions as needed.
• Closely coordinate with procurement team on buyout pricing and pricing status.
• Work with the business teams to set targets, implement strategies, and define procedures necessary to ensure consistency across pricing actions and decision-making.
• Lead globally and operate as part of a focused pricing organization embedded in the regional business teams.
• Leverage and use multiple data sources/BI, internal and external, along with sys-tems and databases to provide actionable insights through reporting and analyt-ics; turn insights/BI into profit driving business decisions.
• Provide thought leadership; regularly conduct proactive analysis and sponsor cross-functional workshops to identify opportunities, solve problems, and improve business performance through pricing actions.
• Lead and direct regional pricing team members to provide leading and lagging KPIs for pricing initiatives, compile reports and dashboards to distribute to stake-holders across the organization.
• Monitor and report overall effectiveness of pricing execution, work with regional pricing teams to analyze gaps and transparently communicate performance.
• Administer and manage customer-imposed pricing reporting needs.