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:
    • 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
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