Pricing Specialist (1 year contract, Logistics Sector) #Costing #USMNC #NJH

RECRUIT EXPRESS PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in Singapore seeks a Pricing Analyst to support the development of competitive pricing proposals for global tenders and monitor pricing performance. The ideal candidate has at least 3 years of experience in pricing roles, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in Excel, Power BI, and Tableau. This role offers an opportunity to improve pricing processes and work closely with the pricing community.

Qualifications

• 3 years in a product/service pricing role or similar.
• Understanding of pricing/costing methodologies preferred.
• Strong capability in business analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support development of pricing proposals for tenders.
• Monitor pricing performance for global/regional customers.
• Ensure consistency of pricing across countries.

Skills

Analytical capability

Spreadsheet expertise (MS Excel)

Knowledge of pricing methodologies

Database knowledge (MS Access)

Simulation and forecasting

Education

Degree in Business/Finance/Marketing/Commerce/Accounting

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Job Purpose:

• Support development of competitive & consistent pricing proposal for global & regional tenders, related to the customers in the largest sales channel
• Monitor performance of Global & regional customers pricing
• Contribute to the improvement of customers pricing processes to upper level & support respective implementation
• Provide advice & expertise to the pricing community & Global organisation

Job scope:

Development of competitive and consistent pricing for global and regional tenders

• Clarify service requirements, and obtain relevant inputs, e.g., shipping profile, customer strategy, target prices, RFQ response guidelines, etc.
• Support conversations regarding the pricing strategy for each tender involved, providing solid justification of the approach to follow with the sales owner
• Analyze profitability and rate levels for existing and potential business and pricing; benchmarking against competition and pricing for other customers
• Ensure “deep dive” cost analysis to determine customer-specific costs to serve, e.g., special pickup, customer implants, dedicated linehaul, B2C service, value-added services, etc
• Prepare consolidated prices in rate card formats and customer/RFQ templates
• Ensure consistency of pricing across countries, products, countries, weight breaks; and enforcement of pricing policies
• Ensure documentation of final price proposals and communication to relevant stakeholders according to standards

Performance of global and regional customer pricing

• Perform analyses of bids won/lost, propose recommendations
• Conduct post-implementation reviews of rate implementation, “ship to profile”, profitability
• Perform “deep dive” profitability analyses
• Identify issues and recommend improvements
• Support the implementation of GPIs and introduction of new surcharges for global customers
• Preparation of relevant reports/scorecards

Improvements to the customer pricing processes

• Development of tools, procedures and databases to systemize the tasks of rate setting, profitability analysis, benchmarking, and price simulation
• Development and delivery of training on the customer pricing process, tools, and techniques
• Propose improvements to increase efficiency and quality of customer pricing processes, and support respective implementations
• Lead complex costing analysis of global customers and ensure databases are maintained with the costing factors that are to be used in customer-specific pricing

Provide advice and expertise to the pricing community and global organization

• Act as a global/regional contact for customer pricing
• Support country pricing managers on large country bids; and especially for >$1M and multi-country and multi-region
• Provide input to the regional Tender Review Boards as required
• Participate in adhoc projects and initiatives

Requirements:

• Preferably a Degree in Business/ Finance/ Marketing/ Commerce/ Accounting or equivalent
• 3 years of experience in a product and/ or service pricing role, or in a marketing or business analysis position will be an added advantage
• Knowledge and understanding of pricing and costing methodologies and tools is preferred
• Strong analytical capability including expertise in spreadsheet (MS Excel) and database (MS Access) program, Power BI and Tableau
• Simulation and forecasting competence is preferred
• Good business and marketing orientation

Interest applicants, pls email updated resume to [e-mail]

Jessie Hoe Huey Miin

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