Position
Looking to work in an international company with more than 35 different nationalities where collaboration and innovative ideas are key to drive future success? Seeking a role where you can add value and have the opportunity to develop and grow?
You will be in charge of the price setting process of a leading e-tailer in Europe. Not for a couple of hundred products in one country, but for more than 100.000 products delivered in multiple European countries. To optimally support you in this position, Office Depot is currently investigating the possibilities for software support in the price setting process. This is your chance to support this process first hand, and subsequently configure, monitor and optimize the pricing tool further. In addition, you will support the business in revenue optimization opportunities and evaluate profitability across the whole business. You will cooperate among others with: category management, sales, marketing and business intelligence, on topics like base price optimization and promotional effectiveness.
Your activities include:
Next step:
You will be in charge of the price setting process of a leading e-tailer in Europe. Not for a couple of hundred products in one country, but for more than 100.000 products delivered in multiple European countries. To optimally support you in this position, Office Depot is currently investigating the possibilities for software support in the price setting process. This is your chance to support this process first hand, and subsequently configure, monitor and optimize the pricing tool further. In addition, you will support the business in revenue optimization opportunities and evaluate profitability across the whole business. You will cooperate among others with: category management, sales, marketing and business intelligence, on topics like base price optimization and promotional effectiveness.
Your activities include:
- Leading role in the implementation and adoption of price setting software within Office Depot
- Support the business in optimally use the new software solution going forward
- Participate in revenue optimization projects and provide pricing knowledge based on your pricing knowledge and analysis
- Conduct structural pricing analysis to monitor price realization on for example product groups and convert the data into relevant insides
- Pro-actively share these insides with relevant internal stakeholders, including senior management
- Define relevant pricing policies to continuously improve our pricing maturity, for example promotion policies
Next step:
- Conduct market and competitive intelligence analyses as needed to provide a holistic assessment to evaluate risks or opportunities impacting pricing strategies
- Develop a Pricing Center of Excellence supporting organizational process and tools & metrics and best practices to facilitate decision support
- Lead Pricing Committee meetings to align pricing and revenue performance decisions with relevant internal stakeholders. Set up pricing policies that support business goals
- Develop and implement comprehensive communication strategies to educate sales, category management and other business partners about pricing best practices.
Qualifications
- University and/or Bachelor degree that emphasizes your analytical skill set, for example in economics, finance or business
- A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in a pricing/business analyst role, ideally in a retail environment but it can also be consultancy
- Previous work experience with (rule-based) pricing software is preferred
- Language skills; professional communication in English. Other language skills are nice to have
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; to be able to structure and analyze large data sets
- Interpersonal skills; able to communicate through all levels of the organization
- Pro-active and can-do mentality to kick-start pricing improvements
- Technical skills; advanced Excel skills required and SQL would be a nice to have
- Able to work in a fast paced and changing environment and to travel internationally occasionally
Competences
- Strong analytical skills
- Problem-solving capabilities
- Result driven
- Excellent communication skills
- Flexibel
- Ownership
- Pro-active
- Can-do mentality
Offer
- First of all, a team that works on cool stuff like AI, ML and other trends that will bring us forward
- International environment
- A good work-life balance with 36 days of leave per year, based on a?40 hour?workweek?
- Variable bonus structure
- Flexible working hours
- Excellent learning and development programs, for example membership of a pricing society
- Solid company pension scheme??
- Collective health insurance and discount on private insurances?
- Several initiatives to stimulate your well-being like contributions for sport memberships
Vacancy status:
closed
Date of placement:
5 years ago
Location:
Venlo
Hours:
40 uur