Pricing Manager

Robert Half

Robert Half Technology are currently recruiting for a Pricing manager to work within a pricing team for a Healthcare Company in their Coventry office. The purpose of this role effective management of pricing and discount strategies across all product categories, through robust pricing processes, tactical pricing initiatives and technology adoption. All pricing activities will be overseen by the Pricing Manager within a central pricing function, ensuring a clear focus remains on optimising profit margin.

Responsibilities

• Create a high performing Pricing Team, ensuring the right skillsets are in place and promote a culture of best practice, innovation, and team development.
• Lead the development and implementation of the pricing strategy, underpinned by innovative data and analytics combined with commercially sound judgment on price decisions.
• Contribute to the business strategy as a key member of the wholesale commercial function.
• Play a critical role in the ongoing development of pricing tools, through adopting technologies such as SQL, Alteryx and Power BI and ensuring a focus on price elasticity and statistical analysis.
• Be the project manager on key value drivers for growth, such as pricing and segmentation initiatives.
• Ensure strategic pricing rules are applied where applicable, but always looking to innovate.
• Ensure effective management of pricing and discount strategies across all business units and all product categories, challenge the commercial effectiveness of decision making to optimise margin.
• Create a pricing forum, where cross functional groups can understand the commercial performance through pricing activity and provide a platform for them to challenge decisions.
• Work collaboratively across sourcing and supply, to develop ‘buy-side’ and ‘sell-side’ connectivity, so challenges from all perspectives can be worked through positively to deliver the optimal business outcome.
• Define the pricing policies and guidelines for ongoing management and governance.
• Create robust processes for price communication to customers, through use of technology and automation.
• Have a good understanding of customer purchasing behaviour, especially around digital methods/commerce/portals, to ensure pricing strategies align with segmentation and profitable growth is maximised by segment.

Personal Specification – The skills, knowledge, and experience that the job holder should require to conduct the role effectively.

• A degree or a professional certification in a related subject eg Mathematics, Economics, Finance or Data & Analytics.
• Previous roles in Pricing or Commercial teams
• Experience using Alteryx or other analytics automation platforms.
• Strong capabilities in SQL.
• Competent in Excel and data visualisation software such as PowerBI or Tableau.
• First class analytical and data visualisation skills.
• Experience of using large volumes of data.
• Data driven, confident in using multiple analytic tools and experienced in creating and running reports and using them to track success.
• Strong leadership and can inspire and motivate a team of analysts.
• Great commercial acumen, financial skills, and creativity.

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