Associate Pricing Analyst

Zimmer Biomet; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 57,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Zimmer Biomet in Grand Rapids, MI seeks a contracts analyst to administer and analyze pricing, maintain customer pricing in SAP, and manage contract lifecycles with regional buyers and health systems.

You will prepare pricing analyses, assist with national group purchasing organizations, and generate sales history reports. Strong analytical, communication, and data skills are required; travel up to 5% is possible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business management, or related with 0+ years preferred.
• Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP experience; SAP, PROS, Vendavo, Alteryx, Tableau experience preferred.
• High School or Associate/Bachelor pathways with related experience as required.

Responsibilities

• Administer contracts and analyze pricing; maintain customer pricing in SAP.
• Expedite order exceptions with regional buying groups and health systems.
• Administer contract maintenance from RFP to initiation; perform life cycle tasks.
• Maintain group membership lists, pricing for contracts, and group communications.
• Prepare slides for Price Committee; analyze sales history and price impact.

Skills

Analytical skills

Oral and written communication

Pricing knowledge

Contract management

Data analysis

SAP experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, business management, or related

Associate’s degree with 2+ years of applicable experience

High School Degree or Equivalent with 4+ years of applicable experience

Tools

Pivot Tables

VLOOKUP

SAP

PROS

Vendavo

Alteryx

Tableau

Job description

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered, and recognized.

What You Can Expect

Responsible for administering, analyzing contracts, maintaining customer pricing in SAP, group maintenance, and expediting order exceptions with regional buying groups, medical surgical distribution companies, integrated health systems, and individual facilities while assisting with national group purchasing organizations. Administers contract maintenance process to ensure sales transactions are accurate and recorded timely.

How You'll Create Impact

• Ensures that the signed and executed pricing agreement is followed and that agreed upon pricing is loaded accurately.
• Responsible for reviewing and approving pricing requests and resolving price discrepancies by applying appropriate business judgment in compliance with Zimmer Biomet Policies.
• Manage contracts from the RFP stage to contract initiation, perform contract maintenance, sales reporting and performs contract life cycle management tasks.
• Maintain group membership lists, group maintenance requests, hierarchy changes, pricing for contracts, and group communications.
• Assist with implementation of national agreements.
• Ability to interact and be point of contact with Customers, Distributors, and internal management to provide guidance around documentation, billing and price points.
• Prepare slides for Price Committee.
• Prepare sales history, ASP, and impact analysis for assigned national group purchasing organizations, regional buying groups, integrated health systems, and individual contracts.
• Develop and prepare reports to analyze Zimmer sales, average selling prices, and price impact analysis as necessary.
• Prepare sales history, ASP, and impact analysis for assigned national group purchasing organizations, regional buying groups, integrated health systems, and individual contracts.
• This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and might not necessarily comprise all of the essential functions for purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate analytical skills.
• Demonstrate ability to learn new software applications and job skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of sales reporting and analysis software.
• Highly motivated, self-starter willing to meet strict deadlines and time constraints.
• Understands the overall business environment of the orthopedic industry.
• Influence the direction of our internal and external customers in regard to contract management.
• Ability to prioritize and adjust work in a flexible manner.
• Ability to recognize issues and improve current and existing processes.
• Attention to detail and ability to work with large amounts of data.
• Thoroughly understands and applies good contract management principles.

Education and Experience

• High School Degree or Equivalent and 4+ years of applicable experience OR Associate’s degree and 2+ years of applicable experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 0+ years of applicable experience required
• Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP query experience and SAP, PROS, Vendavo, Alteryx, Tableau experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business management, or related with 1-3 years of experience preferred

Travel Expectations

• Up to 5%
• 2-3 days quarterly travel expected to Warsaw, Indiana headquarters

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability

Expected Compensation Range: $57k to $62k, plus target bonus