Pricing Analytics Manager

Forsyth Barnes; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes is looking for an experienced analytics leader in Chicago, IL, who can spearhead pricing strategies and enhance analytics capabilities. The successful candidate will lead a team and collaborate with senior stakeholders to apply advanced analytics for commercial decision-making.

The role requires a minimum of 5 years in analytics, preferably within pricing or revenue management, along with strong technical skills in SQL, R, or Python. This is a great opportunity to shape business strategy through data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• 5 plus years of experience in analytics, ideally in pricing or commercial analytics.
• Strong technical experience in SQL, R, or Python.
• Previous management or team lead experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team focused on pricing analytics.
• Identify pricing opportunities across multiple business segments.
• Partner with senior leaders to translate business challenges into pricing recommendations.
• Build pricing models and analytical frameworks.
• Coach and develop analysts.

Skills

Analytics leadership

SQL

R

Python

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

We are supporting a lead consumer organisation that is investing heavily in its pricing and analytics capability. This is a great opportunity for an analytics leader who enjoys solving complex commercial problems, working with large data sets, and helping shape pricing strategy across multiple business units.

The successful candidate will lead a small analytics team, partner with senior stakeholders, and use advanced analytics to improve pricing decisions, margin performance, and commercial effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a small team focused on pricing analytics, commercial insight, and data driven pricing strategy.
• Apply advanced analytics to identify pricing opportunities across multiple product, customer, and business segments.
• Partner with senior leaders to understand business challenges and translate them into pricing recommendations.
• Build and improve pricing models, dashboards, reporting tools, and analytical frameworks.
• Work with complex data sets to uncover trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Support the development and execution of pricing strategies across different business units.
• Coach and develop analysts, helping improve technical capability and commercial understanding.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams including pricing, commercial, finance, operations, and technology.
• Present insights and recommendations clearly to both technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Help create more scalable and automated pricing processes.

Key Requirements

• 5 plus years of experience in analytics, ideally within pricing, revenue growth management, marketing analytics, supply chain analytics, commercial analytics, or data science.
• Strong technical experience using SQL, R, or Python.
• Experience working with complex data sets and turning analysis into commercial recommendations.
• Previous management experience or team lead experience.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to partner with senior business stakeholders.