Pricing Manager

Situation

An award winning London based Train Operator require a strategic Commercial Pricing Manager, to streamline marketing strategies, and align competitive ticket pricing for optimal revenue. 

The Opportunity:
An opportunity for a strategic Commercial Pricing Manager has arisen, to use their technical commercial knowledge be accountable for the pricing structure of a major London based Rail industry player. This is a chance to make yourself indispensable to a £million organization within the £Billion Rail sector.

Job Role:  Commercial Pricing Manager 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Location: London 

Role and Responsibilities:

• Prepare pricing recommendations to maximise revenue and support the company’s growth and customer satisfaction targets.
• Manage the fares implementation process within Fares Setting Round timetables ensuring compliance with business strategy and regulation.
• Maintain our client's fares and ticketing data, removing fare anomalies and simplifying the presentation of data visible to customers.
• Ensure retail staff are briefed on fares changes and address fare queries that arise.
• Understand and manage fares agreements with third parties and the earnings allocations derives from inter-TOC revenue allocation processes.
• Support and advise the wider Commercial team in the development and implementation of new products, price promotions, and yield managed initiatives.
• Understand the price sensitivity of our client's market, report the commercial impact of pricing initiatives, and inform our client's revenue forecasting and demand management activities.

Essentials Criteria:

• Educated to degree level in a commercial or numerate discipline
• A thorough understanding of rail industry fares and ticketing
• Excellent analytical skills with a superior attention to detail
• Computer literate, and competent in using Excel and Word
• Confident, with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent collaboration skills for working with colleagues and other business stakeholders
• Knowledge of the industry’s fares setting, revenue reporting and allocation systems
• A working knowledge of rail passenger demand forecasting.

About Ford & Stanley Group

Ford & Stanley Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership and occupational mental fitness.

Ford & Stanley Group Ltd is a Disability Confident Committed employer and is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall adhere to such a policy at all times and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy.