Sr. Pricing Analyst

Company: CDK Global
Location: Hoffman Estates
Posted on: August 26, 2020

Job Description:

Accelerate Your CareerDrive global technology With more than $2 billion in revenues, CDK Global is a leading global provider of integrated information technology and digital marketing solutions to the automotive retail and adjacent industries. Focused on enabling end-to-end automotive commerce, CDK provides solutions to dealers in more than 100 countries around the world, serving approximately 28,000 retail locations and most automotive manufacturers. CDK Global solutions automate and integrate critical processes from pre-sale targeted advertising to the sale, financing, insurance, parts supply, repair and maintenance of vehicles, with an increasing focus on utilizing data analytics and predictive intelligence. We're large enough to make a difference but small enough for your voice to be heard. This means that we are an organization where every person matters. You can make an impact on the success of our business and that of our customers regardless of what career you decide to pursue. From data scientists to sales and client service experts, we're hiring to support your growth and ours - Green light your career. The Senior Pricing Analyst's primary role is to create and capture value using innovative pricing strategies. To support the creation, execution and evaluation of pricing programs for B2B online, software and service solutions. This position requires strong communication skills and a practical commercial mind set. The position will work closely with the sales & commercial managers in creating strategies to ensure product and service profitability. The candidate will support specific price execution, price decisions, and support CDK's Reward program. Candidate is expected to interpret data, gather competitive and market intelligence, win/loss information to analyze trends, identify outliers, and understand client utilization. Position Responsibilities & Essential functions:

• Performing data analysis, building analytical models, coming up with actionable recommendations, improving methodology based on feedback and fine tuning recommendations. Working hands on to prepare and validate data, slice and dice data to derive insights
• Presenting recommendations in a clear and concise manner. Collecting feedback, fine tuning recommendations and obtaining sign off to drive implementation
• Executing responsibilities for CDK's Customer Rewards program and in-contract pricing
• Create pricing strategies using deep analytics to capture opportunities, reduce profit leakage, expand into new markets, and improve sales force effectiveness.
• Conduct pricing analytics and use insights in creating pricing strategies and sales plan development.
• Monitor and update commercial price lists
• Generate pricing reports on sales revenue and preparing revenue forecasts
• Developing daily, weekly, and monthly pricing reports that offer visibility to pricing and offer opportunities to improve pricing strategies
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills are required to collaborate across numerous functions including: sales, marketing, product development, support, strategy and finance. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, able to migrate efficiently through complex systems and data, can simultaneously manage multiple high priority projects, and can create alternative strategies for capturing value in a mature market. Qualifications & Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in business administration, finance, mathematics, accounting, economics or a closely related discipline.
  • Minimum 3 + years' experience in one or more of the following: Pricing, Revenue management, Sales, Commercial Management, Finance, Trading & Business Development OR any other business related.
  • 3+ years in pricing or profitability analysis
  • Demonstrated strong quantitative and analytical ability, analytical and problem solving skills, including financial analysis and modeling
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to tactfully influence, negotiate, and resolve conflicts in order to reach consensus
  • Demonstrated ability to be timely and accurate in written and verbal responses in a fast paced environment
  • Highly Proficient with Excel and PowerPoint Preferred Attributes & Qualifications
    • Strong business knowledge, including activity based costing and standard costing knowledge.
    • Considerable working knowledge of multiple functional areas such as sales, finance, operations, etc. and demonstrated ability to integrate information across those fields
    • 5+ years of experience in setting pricing strategies for B2B companies
    • 5+ years of experience with software or services environment
    • 2+ years of experience in automotive industry
    • Experience with IBM Cognos reporting CDK Global knows you have passions outside of work. You have family, friends, sporting events, and lots of things going on. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to not only take care of you but your family as well. All of our benefits are effective the first day of employment including 401K matching, paid time off to re-energize, donate your time to volunteer in your community, and tuition reimbursement to name a few. At CDK, we pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce. We value and celebrate the uniqueness of individuals and the different perspectives they provide. We offer equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, or protected veteran status.

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