Pricing Analyst

EPIC Business Human Strategy is a company acting in the human resources consultancy field, offering services both in talent acquisition and human capital development.

At EPIC we mix creativity, simplicity, passion, commitment and processes to build synergies between client’s business vision and people potential. We bring our experience and expertise from a diverse range of industries, cultures and businesses, from start up to mature entrepreneurship and multinationals. We aim to build strategies that last and people tell great stories about.

Candidate profile
• Ideally 4-5 years’ experience as Pricing analyst / Sales analyst / Financial analyst / Market analyst / Business intelligence officer
• Experience in complex price performance analysis
• Knowledge of and experience with defining KPIs and dashboards
• IT knowledge:
o Expertise with Excel (Access, SQL, VBA is a plus)
o Proficiency with BI/BO software (SAP BI/BO environment is a plus)
o Experience with ERP & CRM systems
• Personal skills:
o Strong written and verbal communication skills (language: English, German is a plus)
o Problem solving attitude
• Building industry experience is a plus

Role description
The future Pricing analyst role aims to support commercial team, marketing team, product management team and finance team in the fields of business and market intelligence, product pricing, customer pricing, project pricing and pricing monitoring & governance.
At the same time, he/she will have the following responsabilities:
• Monitors official statistics (permits, completions)
• Monitors market research studies (Neomar – roof and wall), mystery shopping studies and develops internal analysis
• Lead the yearly tariff review exercise
• Maintain monthly Pricing dashboards
• Extract insights & uncover potential pricing issues based on analysis
• Target price variance, win/loss analysis, customer revenue / profitability analysis etc.
• Root cause analysis
• New product introduction (supporting price positioning exercise)
• Project pricing (project profitability analysis & guidance for the sales guys)
• Take full ownership of pricing tools & templates
• Ad-hoc price / margin reporting
Dimensions
• Comfortable working with senior management
• High degree of cross-functional coordination
Impact and influence
• Proactive price and margin analysis, allows you to directly impact the bottom line by offering timely advice/support to your commercial team to close better deals and extract full value out of your product and customer portfolio.
Key relationships / customers
• Commercial director
• Regional sales directors
• Marketing director
• Product managers
• Financial director
• Corporate pricing analyst
Other information
• Initial supervision/coaching from corporate pricing analyst
• Direct reporting relationship to commercial director