What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Pricing Analyst position at gategroup?
About us
Gate Gourmet, a gategroup company, is the world's largest independent provider of catering and provisioning services for the airline industry. For the past 70 years, we have served over 250 carriers in more than 30 countries. Gate Gourmet combines culinary expertise with the highest standards of food safety and production to deliver delicious, healthy, and affordable meals to over 270 million travelers around the globe.
Job Summary
The Senior Pricing Analyst is responsible for performing pricing functional work. This position develops, creates, and maintains the customer’s prices in the Company’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and customer systems. The Senior Pricing Analyst collaborates with the Billing team under the leadership and supervision of the manager and director. The core objective of the department is to drive operations in the area of order-to-cash.
Main Duties and Responsibilities :
- Establishes the final costing and pricing for assigned customer(s) per contractual terms.
- Determines the pricing inputs through coordination with the procurement / sourcing and industrial engineering teams to determine respective direct material and labor costs for a given menu and / or service.
- Works directly with the department manager, and commercial and customer’s finance team on the pricing approval process.
- Responsible for routine contractual escalations for the customer(s) relating to Consumer Price Index (CPI), and food and labor costs updates.
- Participates in customer presentation activity to support new business ventures and / or menu refresh activity (i.e. summer and winter menu refresh) for assigned customer(s). Coordinates with the commercial and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams
- Enters final pricing into ERP and customer systems. Additionally, audits are performed to ensure expected prices have been loaded to the appropriate ERP and / or customer system.
- Supports local unit finance and operations teams regarding pricing build-up for menu and services.
- Analyzes revenue trends through various reports to find opportunities to improve revenue accuracy (i.e. revenue per meal, per flight, actual costs versus theoretical costs, zero-priced bill-codes report, etc.).
- Performs sensitivity analysis with pricing that may include “what if” analysis and / or review of inputs that drive customer contribution margin.
- Supports the month-end closing process.
- Acts as the point of escalation on any delays or problems experienced in achieving the startup deadline.
- Works on projects and develops Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to improve the function’s output through continuous improvement initiatives.
- Interacts directly with customer(s)
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Language / Communication Skills :
Ability to communicate well with internal and external customers, verbally and in writing.
Work Demands :
Must be willing to participate in an on-call rotation that would involve evening and weekend work approximately once every two months.
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Demonstrated Values to be Successful in the Position
Employees at gategroup are expected to live our Values of Excellence, Integrity, Passion and Accountability. To demonstrate these Values, we expect to observe the following from everyone :
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
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