Senior Strategic Pricing

What your main responsibilities areThe Lead Analyst provides support across multiple departments that impacts revenue and profitability across the organization. This position plays a key role in the implementation of pricing strategies and policies through the use of various analytical and data intelligence framework. The Lead Analyst acts as a lead within the Pricing organization, developing recommendations based on quantitative and qualitative analysis, and may be called to present to senior level management across the organization.Responsibilities:Commercial:- Pricing Strategy: Work closely with sales and marketing personnel to develop and enact competitive pricing strategies. Deep dive into customer business, RFP requirements and FedEx competitive position to optimize profitability & win ratio. Devise strategies to retain current business and bring new incremental business while meeting profit requirements - Customer insights: Develop understanding on customers, market segments, and competitive landscape/ industry trends. analyse customer transactional data and develop comprehensive insights on customer to optimize product/ service offering & value proposition, and to drive pricing decisions - Governance: Develop policies & procedures for pricing analysis & approvals. Understand price boundaries, floor & target price setting and ensure to have adequate internal controls & compliance mechanism, to prevent revenue leakage. Bring forward risk & benefits through analysis and get required approvals - Pricing models/ analysis: Good understanding on pricing models/ systems, revenue & cost structures, contribution & operating margins and P&L views; develop & enhance pricing models. Provide pricing recommendations to the commercial organization with supporting analysisStakeholder management:- Manage, develop and sustain effective working relations with stakeholders; understands the roles of other functions and builds an effective network of contacts across key departments - Ability to work interactively with sales teams and regional pricing teams across time zones for delegation, feedback and process approvals - Take ownership and accountability for end-to-end deal execution; coordinate/ partner with cross-functional teams globally and ensure timely delivery of high quality outputs - Customer focused, ability to network & influence, and driven to achieve high quality results - Excellent communication skills, able to communicate with people across all levels including senior management/ leadership - Ability to work under pressure, prioritize & meet coinciding timelines for multiple business critical deliverablesProcess transformation:- Identify process gaps and develop them into improvement opportunities; transform various business processes to enhance efficiency, productivity & customer experience - Develop efficient processes & systems while ensuring internal controls & compliance - Good to have understanding on six sigma / quality driven framework and relevant toolsAnalytical solutions:- Translate business needs into functional requirements, develop use cases/ user stories - Good to have understanding on agile framework, solution architectures, databases, PL/ SQL, Teradata and advanced Excel - Identify relevant KPIs / metrics for business performance and develop dashboard/ reportsProject management:- Excellent project management, multi-tasking and organizational skills - Monitoring progress of key deliverables and milestones, ensure quick turnaround and meeting timelines - Good to have understanding on PMP framework, preparing Gantt charts & detailed project plansCore Competencies, Knowledge, Professional Experience:- Understanding of US Enterprise Pricing/SAM Pricing in line with commercial strategy to achieve overall revenue objective - Business planning and financial modelling skills - 4+ years of working experience on all US OpCos Pricing – FXE, FXG, FXF - Provide recommendations to business partners and management on broad range of business critical topics - Certification in QDM Expert to effectively manage Enterprise wide initiatives - Certification in AiM would be preferred to work as a lead and provide the required support to Mgmt. - Coach and mentor team members on complex pricing proposals - At least 6+ years of experience of which 4+ years in Strategic Pricing role - Should have extensive experience working on complex pricing bids for US Enterprise/SAM customers - Thought leader with strategic mindset and broad global business outlook - MBA in Marketing/Finance from top Tier institute required

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