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Pricing Analyst - Co Louth

Accountancy & Finance
Ref: 329 Date Posted: Tuesday 21 Sep 2021

All of our jobs are based in Louth/ Meath/ Cavan/ Monaghan/ North Dublin.

 

Title: Pricing Analyst

Principal Objective of Position:

Responsible for delivering pricing activity.  Drive for results to ensure delivery of all financial and non-financial objectives for the businesses.

 

Key Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following;

  1. Pricing Strategy Deployment
    • Implement the agreed pricing strategy in each of the networks
    • Maintain high degrees of automation in price calculation
    • Manual interventions in the pricing system are kept to an agreed minimum and are only required to manage exceptions.
    • Contribute to pricing strategy discussions with Senior Management
    • Supports’ culture that encourages decisions to be data driven

 

  1. Pricing Operations
    • Oversee the daily ‘Sites for Review’ process for assigned market
    • Ensure all daily administrative processes are followed, including :
      1. Issuance of Purchase Cost information outputs
      2. Price information provision to necessary third parties
      3. Compliance checks
      4. Uploading of sales & cost data
    • Follow up on various types of system alerts to ensure prices are implemented

 

  1.  Site Performance
    • Reporting of daily, weekly and monthly margins and volume performance on assigned market.
    • Acquire and utilise information from online and local sources to ensure that micro-market definitions are kept up-to-date
    • Identify potential changes to pricing tactics and gain consensus for such changes with local sales teams and leadership
    • Measure and forecast the effects of changes to pricing strategies and tactics
    • From time to time travel to markets to conduct assessments in collaboration with local sales teams

 

  1. Commercial Drive
    • Analysis of volume and margin performance on a daily, weekly & monthly basis to budget and to prior year.
    • Identifying opportunities to improve volume and margin performance, finding data to support the opportunity and presenting it to the business.
    • Always looking for innovative ways to do thing better in pricing.

 

  1. Project Work
    • Support the Pricing Manager on ad hoc projects as and when required.
    • Demonstrate commitment to HSE & Compliance in line with all group and Company corporate policies.

Competencies Required:

Education & Experience:

  • Graduate educated within one of the following disciplines,
    • Business, finance, economics, marketing, statistics, data or IT
  • Strong IT skills including Microsoft products.
  • Proven self-starter
  • Strong analytical & data skills

Core Competencies:

  • Good attention to detail, with an ability and willingness to work in the detail and take a hands-on approach.
  • Demonstrates a desire to grow and undertake additional responsibility.
  • Organised with the ability to adapt to quickly changing priorities.
  • Possesses financial & commercial acumen.
  • Confident presenting complex concepts to senior management.
  • Ability to build business relationships at all levels of the organisation.
  • Proactively monitors business issues and trends
  • Flexible and adaptable with the ability to juggle a range of different tasks and work extra hours if required to meet deadlines
  • Willingness to travel when required

 

If you are interested in the above role, please apply to job reference KR/433 on www.recruitmentbureau.com. Or send your cv to kathy@recruitmentbureau.com

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