Pricing Support Analyst

JR United Kingdom; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Pricing Support Analyst, where you'll play a vital role in negotiating and managing supply agreements for clients in the sustainable energy sector. In this dynamic position, you'll engage with suppliers, ensure smooth contract transitions, and resolve queries effectively. With a focus on building strong relationships and ensuring client satisfaction, you will thrive in a hybrid work environment that values flexibility and collaboration. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a growing industry while developing your skills and advancing your career.

Benefits

25 days holidays + bank holidays + birthday off

Long service awards

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced paternity/maternity leave

Qualifications

• Ability to tender, negotiate, and accept supply agreements.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for tendering and negotiating supply agreements.
• Build and maintain supplier relationships for query resolution.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Problem-solving

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Fusion

Job description

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As a Pricing Support Analyst, you'll be responsible for tendering, negotiating, validating, and accepting fixed price supply agreements for Sustainable Energy First clients. You'll build and maintain supplier relationships to manage query resolution and escalations while coordinating activity between clients and suppliers to facilitate the smooth transfer of supply contracts and proactively manage any late registration reimbursements.

In this role, you will be:

1. Responsible for tendering, negotiating, validating, and accepting supply agreements for Sustainable Energy First clients, including offer assessment, entry, negotiation, and feedback received on tenders.
2. Negotiate with suppliers to achieve the best price for clients. Track the market to support negotiation and timing.
3. Engage with Procurement specialists and account managers.
4. Manage offer entry, assessment/evaluation, and validation prior to client acceptance.
5. Ensure offer/tender feedback is received from suppliers and keep clients updated.
6. Run prompt acceptance processes in line with Sustainable Energy First procedures and requirements.
7. Build and maintain supplier relationships, understanding products and industry developments to proactively resolve client/supplier contract queries.
8. Coordinate activity between clients and suppliers to facilitate registration and transfer of supply contracts per company processes.
9. Ensure the process for automatically obtaining live dates from suppliers functions correctly and resolve any issues promptly through dialogue with relevant suppliers.
10. Proactively manage late registration reimbursements, ensuring prompt and satisfactory completion and payment of claims to clients.
11. Investigate issues related to the transfer of supply contracts, liaising with clients and suppliers to resolve and record activity through Fusion.
12. Communicate regularly with suppliers, peers, and clients to resolve queries, solve problems, escalate complex issues, and highlight key concerns.
13. Ensure accurate data entry into Fusion, aligned with company processes and requirements.
14. Provide regular updates to the Procurement Management Team, including MI reporting.

Requirements

1. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to articulate effectively with clients and suppliers.
2. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
3. Intermediate proficiency in Excel.
4. Familiarity with Fusion is desirable but not essential.
5. Good knowledge and/or experience of the energy industry, particularly energy supply, is desirable but not essential.
6. Ability to tender, negotiate, and accept supply agreements.
7. Ability to resolve client/supplier queries proactively and promptly.
8. Good analytical skills and numerical aptitude.
9. Strong organizational and time management skills.
10. Team-oriented with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including energy suppliers and clients.
11. Effective planning skills with the ability to meet deadlines.
12. Attention to detail and accuracy.
13. Ability to take ownership of tasks and see them through to completion.

Other information

• Salary: Up to £26,000 per annum
• Holidays: 25 days + bank holidays + your birthday off
• Hybrid and flexible working – must be able to commute to our Lytham office 2 days per week
• Long service awards
• Private Medical Insurance
• Enhanced paternity/maternity leave for eligible colleagues