Senior Pricing Analyst (Asia Pacific)-3

NTT DATA, Inc.; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Senior Pricing Analyst – NTT DATA Hybrid Working

The Senior Pricing Analyst is an advanced subject matter expert, accountable for supporting growth across deals and analyzing deals to find efficiencies and ensure lower costs and maximum profitability. This role consults on pre‑sales engagements to support the qualification of deals with a particular focus on the pricing and margin aspects of the pursuit.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of IT industry environment and business needs.
• Advanced knowledge of vendor pricing and commercial models.
• Experience with pricing and deal structuring in a complex environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide analytical breakdown of pricing structures.
• Maintain familiarity with licensing and services commercial models.
• Costing optimization with vendors and regions; coordinate with Sales.
• Work across teams to implement pricing and deal packaging guidelines.
• Direct data analysis to derive pricing insights and market trends.
• Create competitive pricing propositions for client deals.
• Ensure pricing designs include client/ company business cases and contractual pricing documents.
• Guide deal structuring to ensure business sense and pricing discipline.
• Develop pricing tools and templates conforming to standards.
• Transfer pricing knowledge to GDC delivery team for ongoing management.
• Capture trends and learnings to inform new pursuits.

Skills

Advanced analytics

Pricing strategy

Negotiation skills

Cross-functional

Communication skills

Industry knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Senior Pricing Analyst – NTT DATA

The Senior Pricing Analyst is an advanced subject matter expert, accountable for supporting growth across deals and analyzing deals to find efficiencies and ensure lower costs and maximum profitability.

This role consults on pre‑sales engagements to support the qualification of deals with a particular focus on the pricing and margin aspects of the pursuit.

The Senior Pricing Analyst consults on any complex deal review process related to deals in their assigned area of responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Provide an analytical breakdown of pricing structures.
• Responsible for maintaining familiarity with hardware / software licensing and services commercial model in the vendor’s environment.
• Accountable for costing optimization with the vendors and regions and network with the Sales team to optimize deals, mitigate risks for the organization and prevent potential channel or country/region conflicts.
• Works across multiple teams to implement pricing and deal packaging guidelines.
• Directs the analysis of data from a variety of sources and using it to derive insights into pricing strategies and market trends.
• Creates competitive pricing proposition of specific client deals.
• Accountable for achieving an appropriate commercial return and manage key risks – network with multiple teams and facilitate deal reviews and approvals by Sales and Finance by managing the communication and structuring of business opportunities.
• Accountable for ensuring that the pricing design includes development of the client business case, the company business case, a pricing response, contractual pricing documents, addressing client concerns/requirements and mitigating business risks.
• Accountable for deal structuring and/or packaging guidance to Sales, incorporating macro perspective into deal guidance in order to ensure that deals make overall business sense (precedent setting, pricing/discounts across segments/geographies and product family, hardware and software discounts).
• Creates pricing tools that are used to more quickly respond to changing market needs or trends.
• Creates appropriate pricing templates that conform to pricing standards required by the business.
• Directs scenario analysis, what if comparisons, sensitivity analysis, on key deal during deal structuring cycle.
• Accounts for the transfer of the pricing knowledge to the GDC delivery team to ensure the ongoing management of the commercial aspects of contracts.
• Directs the analysis identifying common trends and issues around pricing and competitive situations, learnings from deals, pricing pressures, competitive pressures, loopholes, etc., encountered in day‑to‑day management of the region.
• Accountable for capturing knowledge into artefacts that can be used to support new pursuits and ensure it is embedded in company's overall approach – for example. updated costing and pricing policies, models.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge and understanding of IT industry environment and business needs.
• Advanced knowledge of the industry including competitors and market trends.
• Advanced knowledge of vendor pricing and commercial model (for example. Cisco and Microsoft license model / VMW license model).
• Keen eye for identifying opportunity.
• Advanced analytical and research skills.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced negotiations and problem‑solving skills.
• High level of drive and ability to work under pressure.
• Advanced understanding of global commerce and business capabilities and policies for global deals.
• Ability to build and maintain cross‑functional relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• Maintains a high level of knowledge of product and service offerings, including new offerings.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Mathematics, Statistics, Business, Commercial or related field.

Required Experience

• Advanced demonstrated experience working with business intelligence software.
• Advanced demonstrated relevant experience in similar role within a related environment.
• Advanced demonstrated pricing experience as a consultant or practitioner with a history of developing and implementing innovative pricing solutions.
• Advanced demonstrated experience in commercial modelling using MS Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

Workplace Type

Hybrid Working

Equal Opportunity Employer

NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category.