Pricing & Business Analyst: Profit‑Driven Pricing

Givens Incorporated; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Givens Incorporated is seeking an experienced Pricing & Business Analyst to develop and continually improve pricing strategies for transportation and warehousing operations. You will analyze costs, financial data, and customer requirements to determine appropriate rates and evaluate pricing effectiveness.

You will partner with Operations, Accounting, Sales, and leadership to develop reporting solutions, improve data quality, and provide insight for better business decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Analytics, or a related field.
• Four to seven years of experience in pricing, business analysis, financial analysis, operations analysis, systems analysis, or a related role.
• Experience with operational and financial data in transportation, logistics, warehousing, manufacturing, distribution, or asset-intensive environments.
• Experience gathering business requirements, identifying data sources, evaluating data limitations, and developing analytical solutions.
• Prior experience with business analytics and pricing methodologies in transportation, freight, or warehousing.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Power BI.
• Experience with SQL and developing data queries.
• Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate complex data and recommendations clearly.
• Sound judgment with proactive, critical, and strategic thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and continually improve pricing methodologies for Givens’ asset-based transportation and warehousing services.
• Analyze labor, equipment, facilities, utilization, customer requirements, service levels, operating costs, and profitability.
• Develop and maintain pricing models, rate structures, cost assumptions, and supporting documentation.
• Determine and approve pricing based on company objectives, operating capabilities, cost recovery, and operating-ratio expectations.
• Review pricing effectiveness by evaluating realized margins, customer profitability, cost changes, and overall pricing performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve rates, margins, and profitability.
• Analyze transportation, warehouse, yard, accounting, and customer data to identify trends, cost drivers, and performance opportunities.
• Work with operating teams to understand how information is entered, processed, and reported.
• Help improve system usage, data accuracy, and reporting processes.
• Clearly explain analytical findings and recommendations to business leaders.
• Partner with Operations, Accounting, Sales, and leadership to identify business questions and reporting needs.
• Translate business needs into data and reporting requirements.
• Document metric definitions, data sources, assumptions, dependencies, and known limitations.
• Identify and connect information from TMS, WMS, YMS, accounting, and other business systems.
• Develop SQL queries and other data solutions supporting reporting and data-lake development.
• Investigate discrepancies and reconcile information across multiple systems.
• Build, modify, and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards, and analytical tools.
• Support consistent definitions, reliable source data, and repeatable reporting practices.
• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders, Information Systems & Analytics, and technical resources.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Data-driven decision making

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Analytics, or related field

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Azure

Job description

Givens Incorporated is seeking an experienced Pricing & Business Analyst to develop and continually improve pricing strategies for transportation and warehousing operations. You will analyze costs, financial data, and customer requirements to determine appropriate rates and evaluate pricing effectiveness.

You will partner with Operations, Accounting, Sales, and leadership to develop reporting solutions, improve data quality, and provide insight for better business decisions.