Pricing Analyst

RunBuggy OMI Inc. • Tempe, AZ

11d • $100,000 - $125,000

About The Position

RunBuggy is hiring a Pricing Analyst to develop and maintain competitive, accurate, and profitable pricing for vehicle transportation lanes across customer and market segments. The role combines automotive logistics expertise with advanced data analysis to evaluate market conditions, transportation costs, customer requirements, and margin performance; build pricing models and dashboards; and identify opportunities to improve profitability and pricing accuracy. The analyst also maintains rate structures, validates pricing and billing data, supports bids and contract pricing, and partners with Sales, Operations, Finance, Data Science, and Engineering to turn complex findings into actionable recommendations. Pricing experience in automotive transportation is highly preferred.

RunBuggy is an automotive logistics platform backed by Porsche Ventures, Hearst Ventures, and Centana Growth Partners. Since launching in 2019, the company has grown to more than 190 team members, facilitated the movement of hundreds of thousands of vehicles, and built a network of more than 18,000 transportation companies across the United States.

The expected pay range is $100,000 to $125,000, with compensation varying by location, job level, experience, education, and skills.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of pricing analytics experience in auto logistics, finished-vehicle transportation, vehicle relocation, or a closely related transportation environment, with understanding of OEM, bank, dealer, auction, and vehicle delivery networks.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Management, Supply Chain, or a similar field.
• Strong knowledge of lane pricing, transportation cost drivers, carrier rates, customer contracts, fuel surcharges, accessorial charges, detention, storage, re-delivery, and expedited transportation.
• Ability to benchmark internal lane pricing against external market data and industry research, analyze large datasets, and translate findings into pricing and margin recommendations based on customer profitability, contribution margin, cost-to-serve, revenue leakage, and pricing variance.
• Experience supporting customer bids, contract negotiations, annual rate reviews, and spot-market pricing.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, complex formulas, lookups, data reconciliation, scenario analysis, and financial modeling; experience building and maintaining pricing, profitability, or financial dashboards; and practical understanding of AI and machine learning in pricing analysis, forecasting, and data-quality monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with transportation management, billing, or carrier settlement systems, and ability to validate pricing data across TMS records, billing data, customer contracts, carrier costs, and external market research.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document methodologies, assumptions, pricing rules, and model outputs and explain complex findings to cross-functional and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple pricing initiatives independently, accurately, and on deadline.

Nice To Haves

• Experience pricing finished-vehicle transportation or vehicle logistics at an OEM, carrier, broker, technology provider, auction, dealer group, or transportation marketplace.
• Professional experience using Python for data analysis, data cleaning, automation, statistical modeling, or pricing analysis.
• Experience applying data science methods to forecasting, trend analysis, anomaly detection, segmentation, or optimization.
• Experience with automotive transportation bids, routing guides, network design, carrier procurement, or transportation procurement.
• Experience with customer-specific tariffs, rate tables, pricing schedules, contract amendments, and effective-date management.
• Experience with fuel-indexed pricing and customer-specific fuel surcharge formulas.
• Experience using SQL, cloud data platforms, or business intelligence tools beyond Tableau.
• Experience developing automated pricing or profitability reporting pipelines.
• Experience with predictive analytics, optimization models, machine learning, or AI-enabled analytical tools.
• Familiarity with transportation data sources, market-rate benchmarks, fuel indexes, carrier cost data, and industry research.
• Experience with a TMS, transportation billing, freight audit, revenue management, or transportation accounting systems.
• Experience in a fast-paced technology company or transportation environment with evolving data sources, processes, and customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain lane pricing for vehicle transportation across OEM, bank, dealer, auction, and customer delivery lanes, accounting for market conditions, carrier capacity, route characteristics, volume, lead times, geography, seasonality, and service requirements.
• Benchmark rates against internal history and external market data, identify pricing gaps and underperforming lanes, and find opportunities to improve net revenue and address margin compression or revenue leakage.
• Build, update, and audit customer-specific rate tables, tariffs, lane schedules, fuel surcharge programs, and accessorial charges, and configure contract and bid information accurately in transportation management and billing systems.
• Recommend origin-destination rate changes based on cost trends, market benchmarks, service levels, volume commitments, target margins, and the effects of fuel, vehicle type, load characteristics, repositioning, storage, detention, expedited service, and re-delivery.
• Build pricing models, forecasting tools, and repeatable data-cleaning and validation workflows using advanced Excel, Python, statistical analysis, and machine-learning or AI-assisted methods.
• Combine internal systems, billing records, customer contracts, operational data, and external market research into dashboards covering lane rates, cost trends, margins, market variance, pricing effectiveness, and customer profitability.
• Audit pricing and billing data to verify approved rates, fuel surcharges, effective dates, and contract terms, and reconcile customer pricing, carrier costs, invoices, settlements, and remittances to detect discrepancies.
• Support annual and spot-rate bids with lane-level cost analyses, market comparisons, pricing scenarios, and margin recommendations; price new customers, lanes, network changes, and volume shifts.
• Partner with Sales, Operations, Finance, Data Science, and Engineering to align pricing with capacity, service commitments, customer strategy, and financial objectives, and monitor post-implementation performance.
• Own pricing governance, including approval workflows, version control, effective-date procedures, and accurate master data; drive correction of obsolete, duplicate, or misconfigured rates.
• Document pricing methodologies, data sources, assumptions, model logic, AI usage, and audit procedures.
• Communicate findings and recommendations, financial impacts, assumptions, and risks to business leaders, and improve pricing processes, reporting automation, data quality, and analytical tools.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance with AD&D
• Short-Term Disability insurance
• Long-Term Disability insurance
• Pet insurance
• Identity theft protection
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• RAD automotive discounts for purchasing, leasing, servicing, and transporting personal vehicles through partner dealerships and companies
• Employee wellness program
• Employee rewards, discounts, and recognition programs
• 12 company-paid holidays per year
• Vacation and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Monthly connectivity/home office stipend for employees working from home five days a week
• Supportive environment for career growth

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior