Role Overview

The Category Pricing Analyst will support the category pricing strategy and initiatives through delivering detailed data analyses and preparing management-ready presentations.  Furthermore, this role will be a key contributor to achieving our growth and profitability goals. The Pricing Analyst will work as part of the European Pricing Team.

Key Responsibilities 

• Researching and preparing information on key developments with regards to performance, market prices, margins, and trends for senior management presentations
• Supporting the implementation of the pricing strategy for the assigned categories and collaborating with product management, marketing team and regional pricing heads
• Preparing data and insights for the strategic margin performance review for the respective categories
• Supporting the procurement and category product management as a ‘Pricing Business Partner’
• Challenging purchase prices relative to margins
• Translating positioning into optimized prices per brand, group and product category

• Performing competitor analysis on similar products via the collecting of insights from sales and leveraging market data, i.e., EUCON database
• Conceptualizing and developing pricing tools that can be used to quickly respond to future reporting needs and forecasting
• Applying statistical modelling methods to determine the potential impact of pricing actions on profitability

• Ensuring timely implementation of price revisions to safeguard margin targets and drive margin improvement initiatives
• Reviewing and tracking regional adherence to product positioning and defined corridors
• Supporting ad-hoc analysis requests and independently retrieve and analyse data
• Serving as the point of contact for the category relating to standard reports, market benchmarking, competitiveness and initiatives
• Helping to build a mindset and culture that fosters innovation and inspires colleagues to challenge and change the status quo

Key Stakeholders

• Category pricing management
• Procurement & category product management
• Marketing
• Analytics & BI
• Regional pricing
• Market insights

Key and Desired Skills

• 2+ years pricing analyst experience within automotive after-market, industrial components, spare parts or related industries
• Degree in business, mathematics, engineering, finance, data analytics, or similar discipline
• Experience in analysing large number of SKUs (200k+) in a multi-national environment
• Self-starter and high attention to detail
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Google Cloud an advantage
• Advanced user of BI and analytical tools including dashboard development and statistical modelling methods
• Team player focused on building effective solutions to complex problems
• Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Professional English is required. Italian, German, or other European languages are an advantage
• Ability to travel up to 10% within Europe