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Russell Tobin's client, a leading manufacturing company, is hiring a Strategic Pricing Analyst at Dallas, TX (Hybrid)
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Employment Type: Contract/Hybrid
Location: Dallas, TX 75234 (Hybrid) (2 days onsite in a week)
Shift: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm
Duration: 6 months with possible extension or conversion
Pay range: $26/hr - $32/hr
Job Description:
The Analyst - Strategic Pricing position will support the Strategic Pricing organization through program design, implementation, analysis, reporting, and publication to Executive Management. This position will collaborate with sales on commercial agreements, prepare discount provisions, and provide various analyses to facilitate decision-making.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Interpret, validate, and enter commercial agreements according to the prices and discounts agreed upon.
- Use analytics to drive insights and fact-based decision-making.
- Work with the sales team on structuring pricing deals with appropriate discounts and sales growth targets.
- Provide regular analysis regarding sales and pricing performance to management.
- Identify opportunities to optimize sales and profitability through price strategies.
- Work with the sales team on creating and maintaining pricing agreement documents.
- Manage documents related to various customer interactions.
- Prepare, monitor, and analyze discount tables to ensure payment accuracy.
- Develop key metrics and methodologies to improve sales and profitability.
- Conduct detailed analysis to support strategic pricing initiatives.
- Extract insights and uncover potential pricing issues based on analysis methods such as target price variance, win/loss analysis, customer revenue/profitability, etc.
- Develop and test specific hypotheses to triangulate root causes of pricing issues.
Skills, Knowledge, & Abilities:
- Strong problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to find solutions.
- Attention to detail and accuracy, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects.
- Ability to effectively communicate with and engage all levels of the organization, both verbally and in writing, building effective partnerships across teams.
- Proven leadership and collaboration skills required to create strong cross-functional relationships.
- Strong analytical and mathematical skills, with experience manipulating large data sets across disparate systems.
- Clear and concise communication style, with the ability to drive cross-functional projects and develop strong relationships with key partners.
Education and Qualifications:
- Must be bilingual in French and English.
- Intermediate Excel skills required.
- Knowledge of the Optifacts environment (preferred).
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Analytics, Economics, Engineering, or a similar quantitative field.
- MBA/Master’s degree preferred.
- 4 years of successful experience in strategic pricing, finance, or similar analytical roles.
- Strong analytical capabilities.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, and advanced skills in Microsoft Excel required.
Benefits that Russell Tobin offers:
Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors.
Salary : $26 - $32