Pricing Analyst

Pricing Analyst

Assignment Type: Temporary, ongoing basis where you will be engaged via Hays

Location: Chichester

Working Environment: Hybrid, part office based on site at client offices/ part home based

Pay type: Competitive hourly pay rate

Start date: 2nd January 2024

Our Client

The World’s pre-eminent super-luxury automotive brand based in Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, which comprises its global headquarters and Global Centre of Luxury Manufacturing Excellence.

The Role

Everything starts with passion at our luxurious automotive client. It turns a profession into a vocation. It drives them to keep reinventing mobility and to bring innovative ideas onto the roads. Enthusiasm for joint projects turns a department into a strong team where every opinion is valued. It is only when expertise, highly professional processes and enjoyment of work are united that they can shape the future together.

An excellent opportunity for a Pricing Analyst to support Pricing Team. You will be working in the Parts Pricing environment of Aftersales and be supporting Pricing Manager.

Your main task will be to ensure all new parts have valid prices set up, are ready to be ordered by dealers’ network. You will be responsible for preparing cyclic reports to ensure we are on track with our targets (margin analysis, cost price changes etc.). You will be exposed to all aspects of pricing management and pricing structure at Ownership Services Department. You will be working with everything that influences prices of our spare parts: currency fluctuations, transport fees, customer demands, current market situations and many more. You will also have an opportunity to implement ideas and improvements that would positively influence our profit margins.

You will be working with marketing, service, warranty and business steering, but you will be also acting as point of contact for the dealer network, area managers, internal and external partners.

Our client are currently working on reshaping and improving the existing Pricing Process, so you will have an opportunity to be a key person in this project. You will also be welcome to implement your own ideas and improvements to shape future Pricing Process in Pricing Management area. This project will require support from an IT, process and data analysis. You will be a vital asset to support the team in the analysis, planning and implementation your own point of view.

Key Accountabilities

• Setting Retail and Dealer prices in line with new model launches, life cycle impulses, running changes and new product releases. Maintaining target margins across the portfolio

• Reviewing and adjusting Market and Freight Factors, ensuring the profit will be secured

• Support system changes and liaising with IT department when user testing is required.

Support in Quarterly Updates:

• Prices harmonisation between markets

• Maintenance and profit margins review

• Creation of 15 external and 2 internal Price Files on Quarterly basis

• Monitoring cost price changes and reacting to them

• Setting up costs for internal parts

• Liaising with other teams across the business: Finance, Bespoke, Warranty, Business Steering and Logistics.

• Data analysis and various reports preparation

• General support in Pricing Team

Skills and Qualifications

• Degree or relevant experience in Economics / Finance / Accounting field

• Knowledge and experience in both the Aftersales and spare parts business

• Pricing experience within a global, multi-currency function

• Management of large complex data sets

• SAP experience

• Fluent in English

• Competent in MS Office, with specific experience in Excel and PowerPoint

• Analytical and mathematical skills

• Affinity to data analysis and problem solving

• Ability to communicate to different cultures with sensitivity and respect

• Desire to continuously improve processes.

• Good eye to detail and analytical approach

Benefits:

· Competitive hourly rate along with an annual performance related bonus

· Hybrid working

· Access to a subsidised restaurant

· Hays Go1 training platform which offers a library of over 70,000 courses

· Access to Ben – Offers support across a wide range of topics such as mental health well-being, financial or legal matters

· Local retail and restaurant discounts

· 35 days annual leave (Including bank holidays)

What next?

If you are interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now on 0116 261 5001.