Strategic Pricing Analyst

NewsBank Inc. is seeking an experienced Strategic Pricing Analyst to support the Pricing department, working with online-based products. If you have a strong background in pricing analytics, proposals and competitor analysis, we want to talk to you!

We are looking for someone with strong analytical abilities, ability to think strategically after proper market and customer research, as well as someone who is looking for the potential to grow into management with a company that values professional development. We seek to hire someone who can understand our pricing strategies, improve them, and learn our complexities and efficiencies. The successful candidate will be tactical, with a well-developed growth mindset and enough will to learn our business and think strategically.

When you join NewsBank, you become part of a culture that has adapted to meet the changing needs of our markets for decades. We are a growing, private company that partners with thousands of current and historical news sources and archival collections worldwide to provide schools, libraries, universities and genealogists with valuable primary source information. Using our online resources, researchers around the world can easily search tens of millions of current and archived news articles and obituaries in order to pinpoint information from primary sources at the local, state, regional, national and international levels.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Analyzes the work efficiencies of current pricing positions, learning how the department operates

Tolerance for complexities of pricing structures and origins, along with willingness to think outside the box

Ability to build and maintain strong cross-functional and cross-team ties to influence colleagues and management

This position plays a pivotal role to support decision-making regarding new product launches, forecasting, and product sales strategies by instituting defendable pricing designs

Strong partnership with our Senior Vice President, Chief Sales Strategy Officer for the News Division, to drive pricing strategy

Responsible for the pricing of new and existing information-based products on an ongoing basis, learning current processes and improving them

Lead pricing efforts of all complexities and of several types of renewals and prospect sales

Provides relevant reporting and analysis, including competitive analysis, in support of pricing process

Prepares and analyzes product pricing and assists in the preparation of management presentations, business reviews, key findings and recommendations

Assists with pro-actively identifying new market opportunities and risks arising from competitive, regulatory and other internal and external factors

Conduct market research to identify trends in the industry and competitors' pricing strategies

Gathers data and performs analytics to properly validate models and documents assumptions that provide the basis for pricing and profitability measurement

Provide guidance and counsel on all aspects of cost proposal preparation

Facilitate/lead pricing reviews with upper management and coordinate with senior staff to determine pricing structure and strategy

Leads or participates on special projects needs

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required ability to think strategically and analytically

Preferred product pricing experience 5+ years of experience in a pricing role is desirable, but not required

Desire to grow into a management role in the future

• Strong Excel skills

Ability to interface efficiently with senior management: strong partnerships are a cornerstone of this role, especially with Sales strategy

BA/BS from a 4-year college or university in Finance, Accounting, Math, or related

Ability to work with department managers to deep-dive on business performance

Demonstrated excellent analytical and critical thinking skills

Strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Hearing and speaking to exchange information; seeing to perform assigned duties; sitting or standing for extended periods of time; dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and other office equipment; kneeling, bending at the waist, and reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally, to retrieve and store files and supplies; lifting objects under 50 lbs.

Position may require occasional travel.

This Position Description reflects the assignment of essential functions for this position. It does not identify or restrict the tasks that otherwise may be assigned. It should not be construed as any type of employment contract.

Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, life, supplemental and short-term disability insurance, 401k retirement savings plan with company match, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Savings accounts, flex-time options, holidays, vacation, and personal paid time off.

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