Pricing Analyst

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •5 days working from office
• •Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes
• •Ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources
• •Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques
• •Ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment
• •Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques
• •Ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients
• •Knowledge of relationship management techniques
• •Ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers
• •Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions
• •Ability to leverage customer information in creating customized customer solutions
• •Ability to communicate the importance of customer needs/expectations and commit to resolving them
• •Ability to research and verify customer needs and expectations
• •Ability to solicit customer satisfaction feedback and act on improvement opportunities
• •Ability to help link organizational objectives to customer needs and expectations
• •Ability to meet regularly with customers to understand their wants, needs and expectations
• •Ability to use 'value selling' techniques to successfully engage customers
• •Ability to research the customer's industry and organization before attempting sales calls
• •Ability to discuss issues and considerations regarding current 'value selling' practices and recommend potential improvements
• •Ability to quantify proposed costs, benefits and value in customer terms
• •Ability to define and document value-added activities and their benefits to customers beyond the initial sales transaction
• •Ability to deliver helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient
• •Ability to listen to feedback without defensiveness and use it for own communication effectiveness
• •Ability to make oral presentations and write reports needed for own work
• •Ability to avoid technical jargon when inappropriate
• •Ability to look for and consider non-verbal cues from individuals and groups
• •Ability to describe qualities of effective and ineffective negotiations
• •Ability to explain the basic concepts of negotiating
• •Ability to access organizational policies and practices for negotiating
• •Ability to utilize techniques for establishing rapport and building trust
• •Ability to communicate to clients regarding expectations of all parties
• •Ability to participate in negotiating the terms of the business relationship
• •Ability to conduct periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes
• •Ability to maintain productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors
• •Ability to create opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities
• •Ability to empower others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships
• •Ability to apply an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process
• •Ability to identify, obtain, and organize relevant data and ideas
• •Ability to participate in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes
• •Ability to recognize, clarify, and prioritize concerns
• •Ability to assist in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives
• •Ability to advise on advanced data gathering and analysis methodologies and technologies
• •Ability to oversee data gathering and analysis activities within the organization
• •Ability to document sources and validate the accuracy of data analysis by evaluating the pros and cons of data analysis methods used
• •Ability to implement procedures and policies within a data processing function
• •Ability to teach others how to improve the validity and reliability of data used in various analyses
• •Ability to evaluate best practices of data gathering and analysis within the industry