Senior Pricing Analyst

Motability Operations Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the mobility sector seeks a Senior Pricing Analyst to lead pricing strategies and support business objectives. The role involves collaboration across teams to ensure effective pricing decisions that balance customer needs and business goals. Candidates should have extensive experience in pricing and data analysis, along with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders effectively.

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus

15% non-contributory pension

Life assurance at 4 times basic salary

Employee Discount Scheme

Discounted Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme

28 days annual leave

Funded Private Medical Insurance

Critical illness insurance

Access to healthcare apps

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in pricing within a complex business environment.
• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on data accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of pricing strategies across various vehicle sectors.
• Support delivery of Strategic Pricing outlook and volume forecasts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize pricing outputs.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Data Analysis

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, or related field

Job description

About The Role

Reporting to the Pricing Manager, the Senior Pricing Analyst is responsible for being the subject expert on pricing, performance, and opportunities across a portfolio of products. The role is key to ensuring that Pricing decisions reflect the changing dynamics within the industry and economy to ensure that changes to the future landscape are considerations in our longer-term pricing approach. With a strong focus on delivering sustainable, affordable customer pricing across a range of vehicles by balancing the needs of customers, manufacturers, and our own business objectives. The role will also support the delivery of the strategic pricing outlook and volume forecasting.

Working as part of the Asset Risk Division, you will report to the Pricing Manager with the following responsibilities:

• Ownership and subject expert for set model sectors e.g. Mini, MPV, Crossovers, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles etc
• Support the setting & delivery of the Asset Risk strategy in alignment with the needs of the wider business strategy
• Accountable for negotiation strategies by assessing commercial viability and customer impact of pricing proposals, and working with the wider business to deliver these
• You will have an in-depth knowledge of Motability Operations business model, and the lease pricing inputs, forecasts and risks associated with these
• Support the delivery of the Strategic Pricing outlook and volume forecast across all MO product lines (car, WAV etc), whilst supporting the wider deliverables of the Pricing team
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure the optimum pricing output across the pricing triangle
• Ensure that pricing adheres to MO and Asset Risk governance approach
• Work with AR leadership to deliver overarching AR BAU, AR and MO objectives
• You will form collaborative relationships to ensure the requirements of the Pricing Team are understood, planned and managed for all strategic projects and business as usual activity across the relevant time frames of 12 to 24 months.
• Develop collaborative and enduring relationships with the Asset Risk and wider business leadership team, relevant stakeholders, and be an advocate for Asset Risk and our ways of working
• Be an advocate for Asset Risk, and work with colleagues around the business to promote best practices and skills & knowledge sharing.
• You will proactively engage with relevant 3rd parties (industry bodies, commentators and experts) to develop your understanding of external best practice, industry themes and expertise, and ensure they feed back to Asset Risk appropriately

About You

• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, colleagues and deadlines
• Passionate about using systems to support accurate decision making
• Confident in ensuring data accuracy feeding models, insight and outputs
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Can understand the business environment, market trends, and the financial impact of decisions to align systems and process enhancements to support the organisation's strategic goals
• Ability to build enduring relationships across the business and influence others

Minimum criteria:

• Extensive experience of delivering data and insight activities across a group of multiple stakeholders
• Experience of Pricing within a complex business environment

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, you can expect:

• An annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Employee Discount Scheme with a huge number of retailers and an app to save on the go
• Discounted Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme (we have showers, changing rooms and secure bike sheds on site)

As well as financial benefits, our staff's health and well-being are very important to us, so we also offer:

• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Critical illness insurance
• Free access to healthcare apps, such asPeppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• 1 day per year to volunteer – Staff can support a local charity or do a sponsored event whilst being paid for it
• Access to our fully accessible company allotment – Where we grow our own produce for local charitable organisations
• Access to Prayer room and quiet spaces whilst working in the office

We also understand that not everyone is the same so offer several voluntary benefits that you can select outside the core package, these include;

• Dental Insurance
• Health and cancer screenings for you and your partner
• Discounted gym memberships
• Charitable giving

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.