Pricing Support Analyst

Sustainable Energy First; Lytham St Annes; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Pricing Support Analyst to join their dynamic team. In this entry-level role, you will engage in tendering and negotiating fixed price supply agreements, ensuring smooth contract transitions between clients and suppliers. Your strong communication and analytical skills will be vital as you manage relationships and resolve queries proactively. This position offers hybrid working, allowing you to work flexibly while contributing to a challenging environment with opportunities for professional growth. If you are detail-oriented and eager to make an impact in the energy sector, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Enhanced paternity/maternity leave

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to negotiate and accept supply agreements.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Tendering, negotiating, and validating supply agreements.
• Building and maintaining supplier relationships.
• Managing queries and escalations effectively.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Microsoft Office

Excel proficiency

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Negotiation skills

Attention to detail

Tools

Fusion

Job description

Sustainable Energy First provided pay range

This range is provided by Sustainable Energy First. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

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In House Recruitment Consultant at Sustainable Energy First

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 whilst coordinating activity between clients and suppliers to facilitate the smooth transfer of supply contracts and pro-actively 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 clients are kept updated.
6. Run prompt acceptance processes in line with Sustainable Energy First's procedures and requirements.
7. Build and maintain supplier relationships and have a key understanding of 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 in line with Sustainable Energy First's processes and requirements.
9. Ensure that the process for automatically obtaining live dates from suppliers works well and/or resolve any issues, involving prompt dialogue with relevant suppliers.
10. Pro-actively 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 recording activity through Fusion.
12. Regularly communicate with suppliers, peers, and clients to resolve queries, problem-solve escalated issues, and highlight complex queries to key stakeholders.
13. Ensure accurate data entry into Fusion, where appropriate, in line with Sustainable Energy First's processes and requirements.
14. Provide regular updates to the Procurement Management Team, including MI reporting.

Requirements

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

Other information

• Salary: Up to £26,000 per annum.
• Hybrid and Flexible working: Must be able to commute to our Lytham office 2 days per week.
• Benefits: Enhanced paternity/maternity leave for eligible colleagues.
• Work environment: Challenging work with opportunities for development.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Analyst

Industries

• Utilities