Pricing Analyst

Satellite Office; Pasig; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and hybrid working arrangements

Occasional flexible working hours

Job summary

Satellite Office in Metro Manila is looking for a Pricing Analyst to manage vendor rate negotiations and oversee pricing for tenders. This role requires someone who is detail-oriented with strong analytical and communication skills. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining pricing frameworks and managing customer-facing price list templates.

The ideal individual should have experience with data-driven decision-making, advanced Excel skills, and a proactive approach to process improvement.

Qualifications

• Exceptional analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Experience querying and manipulating data in a relational database.
• Strong initiative to drive improvement and automation.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate vendor rates and manage pricing for tenders.
• Maintain tariff and prefix lists for usage and cost changes.
• Create and manage customer facing pricing templates.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

MS Office proficiency

Data-driven decision making

Project management

Tools

Advanced Excel

Relational databases

Job description

Role Description and Responsibilities

The Pricing Analyst will be a key stakeholder in vendor rate negotiations and support pricing for tender opportunities. It will be responsible for maintaining tariff and number prefix lists for usage and rate refreshes surrounding changing costs. This role will also own customer facing pricelist templates and manage the governance process for negotiated pricing variations.

Required Skills and Qualifications

This role will work heavily with our suppliers, Billing and Sales Teams. Our ideal candidate is a detail oriented, results driven individual with strong communication skills and commercial acumen. Our Global business is positioned as a market disruptor with high growth potential, this role will have ample opportunity to drive improvement and learn new products and markets.

Pricing and Profitability

• Develop and maintain pricing framework for determining margin incorporating vendor, network incorporating contention, and foreign exchange.

• Define standard and floor pricing based on market-research and target margin levels.

Price Refreshes

• Review cost changes and implement customer pricing refreshes to maintain margin levels.

• Carry out regular international call pricing review and refreshes.

• Project manage plan rationalization projects.

Prefix & Tariff Management

• Develop and maintain tariff and call prefix lists for usage rating.

• Incorporate and rationalize vendor tariff lists to deliver effective simplified rating.

• Coordinate destination blocking from dial plans with Engineering for high-cost tariffs to minimize risk.

• Manage tariff break outs based on vendor updates and/or high demand destinations where more granular rating is required.

Pricelist Templates

• Develop and maintain customer facing price list document format(s).

• Assign and manage stakeholders to ensure customer documents are appropriately populated and recorded.

• Work with internal and external development resources to move towards systemizing customer price lists.

Rate Negotiation

• Own customer rate variation governance process, ensuring appropriate stakeholder contribution and approver engagement.

• Act as a key stakeholder in pro-active and re-active vendor rate negotiation.

Communication

• Manage internal communication surrounding changing costs.

• Manage internal and external Product communication surrounding changes and additions to catalogue.

• Manage customer communication around pricing refreshes.

Project Management

• Act as a key stakeholder for pricing components of product related projects.

• Manage plan and rate rationalization projects.

Documentation & Process Improvement

• Create and maintain documentation of pricing framework and process.

• Identify & implement process improvement and automation to improve capability and efficiency.

Qualifications and Experience

• Exceptional analytical skills and attention to detail.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience with data-driven decision making.

• Strong initiative to drive improvement and automation.

• Skilled with MS Office with advanced Excel.

• Experience querying and manipulating data in a relational database.

Desirable

• Products/Pricing/Telco experience.

• Experience with prefix-based telco pricing.

• Experience building and maintaining a database.

• Business Analyst and/or Programming experience

• Certifications in change management and/or project management.

Working Environment

• Remote and Hybrid working arrangements available.

• Occasional evening work may be required.