Senior Pricing Analyst

Bridgestone Corporation • Nashville, TN

295d

About The Position

The Senior Pricing Analyst of Bridgestone Retail Operations develops and leads service pricing strategies for a current portfolio of over 3800 SKUs and future products across 2200+ retail stores. This role works across multiple disciplines, including Marketing, Category Management, Finance, Technology, and Operation Management teams to drive a holistic strategic approach that aligns with the business long-term and short-term goals. This role has regular executive leadership interactions and is a driver in creating the future of the retail service pricing strategy. The Senior Pricing Analyst performs detailed data/pricing analysis, builds presentations, and solves complex business questions using their insights, analytics, and judgment. The Senior Pricing Analyst is viewed as the subject matter expert in the revenue management of roughly 2/3 of the $4.2B retail business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, or related discipline.
• 3+ years of related work experience.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of Excel or other analytic tools to solve business problems.
• Ability to establish priorities and procedures for accomplishing work within established deadlines; ability to lead multiple projects and manage toward deadlines and deliverables.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in pricing/revenue management, or sales and marketing analytics in retail, automotive or service industries a plus, but not required.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with data manipulation & visualization packages desired (e.g., Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI etc.)
• Experience with SQL, Access or other database reporting a plus, but not required.
• Financial modeling experience desired.
• Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) or Masters (MS) in Statistics, Data Analytics, or similar a plus, but not required.
• Data analysis experience in Python or R a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Category Manager and other key partners and stakeholders to develop and analyze pricing strategies, models, tactics, and action plans to meet business objectives, while optimizing price and competitive positioning.
• Support business pricing by providing financial analysis, identifying margin impact and enhancement opportunities, and proposing, testing and implementing new innovative pricing strategies.
• Drive business understanding of effective revenue management through regular reporting and dashboard creation.
• Provide thought leadership for continuous process improvement and innovation in the pricing area by suggesting/implementing changes to current processes and strategies to enable agile/flexible responses to a competitive market.
• Build effective cross-functional relationships within the company (Marketing, Category Management, Finance, Technology, Operation Management, etc.).
• Support the Senior Pricing Manager, and other key decision makers/influencers on special projects as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• Formal training.
• Performance incentives.
• Paid vacation and holidays.
• Competitive healthcare packages for full-time and part-time employees.
• 401k plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree