The Manager, Pricing Insights & Analytics is a key financial role for the US Commercial team partnering with our US Commercial leaders and finance team. The role will be a strategic partner in the pricing team responsible for developing and managing strategic pricing analytics to support and inform business decisions and new business opportunities.
Key Responsibilities- Lead and mentor team of analysts to identify insights, drive pricing opportunities, and spearhead the creation of enterprise level pricing & margin analytics
- Lead the development and maintenance of systems to process, track and monitor deviation of effective pricing vs targeted pricing
- Lead the effort to design, create and continuously improve systems & tools required to perform required analytical functions
- Partners with business leaders and sales organization on systems, tools, dashboards, reports and processes to enable more informed strategic decision making
- Establish regular reporting cadence for pricing team and enterprise leadership that deliver timely and accurate pricing & margin insights
- Provide ad hoc pricing and margin analysis support to broader enterprise as requested by leadership (e.g. Commercial Strategy, Pricing, Sales, etc.)
- Oversee the development of pricing and rebate analysis/reporting for leadership reviews
- Maintain data, systems and process standards for quality audits
- Develop approach to manage competitive intelligence across all markets and leverage that data to inform strategic decision making across the enterprise
- Help drive effective, efficient, whole-systems dialogue and decision-making through coordination and collaboration
Requirements:- Bachelor's degree in Economics/Finance/Business or a related field, MBA preferred
- Minimum five years of experience working in an analytics intensive role (e.g. Advanced Analytics, Data Science, Pricing, etc.)
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Pricing Strategy and/or data-driven decision making
Functional and Technical Skills:- BI Solutions (PowerBI/Tableau), Excel, Visual Basic (VBA), large data management, SQL, R/Python
- Strategic thinker with demonstrated ability to generate insights from large and complex data sets
- Ability to effectively communicate complex analytics in an intuitive way to senior leaders across the enterprise and influence decision making
- Strong team builder and cross functional boundary spanner; ability to influence, challenge, and drive consensus across the organization and at multiple levels
- Supervision/Coordination Reports directly to the Director of Pricing and will have analysts as direct reports
- Works closely with senior leaders, project teams, and other workgroup leaders and staff members
- Influence of employees who do not report to this individual is critical