Position
Exciting Opportunity: join as a Pricing Strategy Manager!
Are you ready to elevate your career with a dynamic and innovative role? We have an exciting opportunity for a Pricing Strategy Manager to join the European headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands. This full-time, permanent position offers a hybrid working solution—spend 30% of your time at the office and the remaining time working from home.
As a Pricing Strategy Manager, you will be at the core of the business, integrating multiple pricing strategies across three main areas: eCommerce webshops, customer segments, and contractual sales to large clients. You will drive price setting in close collaboration with departments such as Purchasing & Assortment, Marketing, and SEA. In this operational role, you will lead one Pricing Analyst and ensure excellence in all pricing activities.
Your role:
Are you ready to elevate your career with a dynamic and innovative role? We have an exciting opportunity for a Pricing Strategy Manager to join the European headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands. This full-time, permanent position offers a hybrid working solution—spend 30% of your time at the office and the remaining time working from home.
As a Pricing Strategy Manager, you will be at the core of the business, integrating multiple pricing strategies across three main areas: eCommerce webshops, customer segments, and contractual sales to large clients. You will drive price setting in close collaboration with departments such as Purchasing & Assortment, Marketing, and SEA. In this operational role, you will lead one Pricing Analyst and ensure excellence in all pricing activities.
Your role:
- International and Interdisciplinary Projects: Plan and implement pricing projects across different countries and departments.
- Complex Analysis: Conduct detailed analyses to develop effective pricing strategies tailored to various international markets.
- Transparent Evaluations: Prepare clear evaluations and analyses of current market developments, providing actionable recommendations for internal stakeholders and management.
- Statistical Modeling: Use statistical modeling to assess the impact of pricing strategies on profitability, the competitive landscape, and customer behavior.
- Systems and Processes: Review and create transparency around the systems, tools, processes, measures, checks, and data refresh methods we use.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster strong relationships with key stakeholders from different teams involved in operational and strategic pricing.
- Proactive Support: Provide support for decision-making on pricing engine rules, identifying risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Process Improvement: Critically evaluate existing processes and independently develop new ones.
Qualifications
- University degree with a focus on business administration and analysis
- Strong educational or practical background in areas like Data Analytics, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Economics, or a related field;
- Professional experience in rule-based strategic pricing, ideally in a retail / eCommerce environment;
- Excellent language skills in English both spoken and written. Any other language skills in German, Dutch, or French would be an advantage
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to pitch ideas and effectively communicate insights to diverse audiences
- Ability to derive pragmatic business decisions, coupled with strong consulting skills
- High level of commitment, initiative, and ability to work under pressure
- Very good Excel skills (including experience in setting up Excel tools) are a prerequisite
- Understanding of programming languages such as SQL, Python, VBA, or R, is an advantage.
- Any experience with using Power BI is beneficial
Competences
- Strong communication skills
- Analytical
- Result driven
- Pragmatic
- Proactive
Offer
- A good work-life balance with 36 days of leave per year (full-time based)
- Annual STI bonus plan with a maximum of 10% over your annual salary based on company results
- Flexible working hours (start between 07:00 and 09:00 am)
- Hybrid working policy 60% office / 40% work from home
- Travel allowance EUR 0,23 Net per kilometer
- A pension scheme is provided with a small 3% employee contribution. Viking pays for the rest up to the maximum threshold of your age group
- Unlimited digital learning opportunities via the GoodHabitz learning platform
- Collective health insurance and discounts on private insurance
- Accident and travel/commuting insurance in place
- Several initiatives to stimulate your well-being like contributions to sports memberships
- Discount opportunities on our product assortment
- Easy access to highways, bus stop in front of the building, free parking, and onsite coffee corner and restaurant
Vacancy status:
closed
Date of placement:
6 months ago
Location:
Venlo / Hybride
Hours:
40 uur