Manager - Pricing Strategy & Analytics

Job Description

The U.S. Pricing team provides thought leadership, business intelligence and actionable insights to support the company’s key growth platforms. It is a high-profile, high-performing team that interacts frequently with senior leadership and various regional leadership stakeholders. The U.S. Pricing team is looking for an experienced Pricing Strategy & Analytics Manager.

** Job Description:**

The Pricing Strategy & Analytics Manager will be expected to provide actionable business analysis, insights, and foresight to understand and drive performance of the business. This individual will lead pricing analytics and shape Pricing Strategy, architecture, planning and recommendations both nationally and regionally.

A successful candidate is an active problem solver - someone who has the natural curiosity to understand business performance drivers through utilizing large datasets, integrating various information sources and applying analytical skills in developing strategies and recommendations. At the same time, the candidate needs to be able to effectively communicate the results through story -telling and visualization. Lastly, the candidate needs to be able to support and lead pricing research studies and lead pricing tests to inform longer term Pricing Strategy.

** Key Accountabilities:**

• Develop business cases and build awareness of pricing decisions across the system
• Communicate effectively in both written and verbal manners to convey meaningful analysis
• Shape Pricing Strategy, architecture, and the planning process both nationally and regionally
• Develop and enhance pricing performance management reporting
• Identify key strategies and size pricing opportunities for long term strategic planning
• Identify opportunities for pricing focused research and lead consumer research studies related to pricing
• Support & manage the relationship with our specific pricing vendors.
• Develop and communicate pricing recommendations for new products and test products
• Leverage pricing tools and analysis of trends and opportunities and facilitate pricing meetings with key stakeholders when needed

** Key Competencies:**

• Result driven and active problem solver
• Analytic Insight: Capability and experience analyzing large amounts of data using multiple data sources, develop analysis templates/tools and synthesize various learnings into actionable recommendations
• Ability to frame business opportunities and develop clear, concise and compelling executive-ready communications to various audience groups with minimal guidance

Qualifications

• 3+ years in consulting, client services and/or pricing advisory or strategy
• MBA or Masters preferred
• Strong business acumen
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical capabilities with experience in working with analytical teams and translating outputs into actionable insights
• Knowledge of pricing and promotion dynamics, multi-tier pricing environment, long term impact of pricing decisions
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required. Experience working with Tableau and/or other data visualization

Qualifications Preferred:

• Strong understanding of the restaurant industry (QSR), competitors, and market dynamics
• Experience working in SQL, Alteryx or other data management and Business Intelligence tools
• Experience with predictive modelling in SAS, Python, R or other

Additional Information

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