Rates - Senior Rates Analyst

Stevens Transport, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

Dental

Life Insurance

401(k) with match

Job summary

Stevens Transport, Inc. seeks a Senior Rates Analyst to join the Pricing & Analytics team. The role partners with the executive sales team to drive pricing strategies using market data and profitability targets, requiring advanced reporting and data interpretation.

Responsibilities include pricing submissions, complex queries, KPI reporting, and ad-hoc analyses to support strategic initiatives; 6+ years' experience and a numbers-focused degree are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited 4-year university with a concentration that leans heavy on numbers/analytics
• 5+ years of analyst experience
• Proactive approach to researching
• Structurally organized and notes centric
• Experience summarizing results and producing reports using advanced Microsoft Excel functions
• Composed under pressure despite changing priorities and occasional interruptions
• Critical thinking and effective communication
• Highly organized and communicative
• Extremely personable and comfortable working closely with executive management

Responsibilities

• Analyzing and implementing pricing based on current market prices vs historical trends, company cost structure, business growth objectives and profitability targets
• Utilizing overall knowledge of company bid-rate structure to complete pricing submissions against critical deadlines
• Writing complex queries and formulas
• Researching pricing discrepancies and reporting findings
• Monitoring schedule of outstanding proposals through multiple rounds of pricing updates
• Updating database with new and revised contract rate terms for both spot and fixed term pricing, and maintaining detailed records of completed agreements
• day-to-day management of all pricing activities, troubleshooting, managing exceptions, and performing ad-hoc analyses
• Generating recurring and ad-hoc reporting on national high-profile accounts, plus ability to summarize trends

Skills

KPI Reporting

Analysis

Pricing

Excel

Datawarehouse

Education

Bachelor's degree in analytics

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Department

Pricing & Analytics

Job Summary

The Senior Rates Analyst works with a team of analysts in tandem with the executive sales team to support the growth of new and existing business through statistics and data. The role requires advanced reporting and analytical skills with the ability to interpret data.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyzing and implementing pricing based on current market prices vs historical trends, company cost structure, business growth objectives and profitability targets
• Utilizing overall knowledge of company bid-rate structure to complete pricing submissions against critical (and often narrow) deadlines set by customers
• Writing complex queries and formulas
• Researching pricing discrepancies and reporting findings
• Monitoring schedule of outstanding proposals through multiple rounds of pricing updates
• Updating database with new and revised contract rate terms for both spot and fixed term pricing, and maintaining detailed records of completed agreements
• Responsibilities include day-to-day management of all pricing activities, troubleshooting, managing exceptions, as well as performing ad-hoc analyses to support strategic initiatives
• Generating recurring and ad-hoc reporting on national high-profile accounts, plus ability to summarize trends

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited 4-year university with a concentration that leans heavy on numbers/analytics
• 5+ years of analyst experience
• Proactive approach to researching
• Structurally organized and notes centric
• Experience summarizing results and producing reports using advanced Microsoft Excel functions
• Composed under pressure despite changing priorities and occasional interruptions
• Critical thinking and effective communication
• Highly organized and communicative
• Extremely personable and comfortable working closely with executive management

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for numbers and understanding business
• Process-oriented
• KPI Reporting
• Power BI, Tableau or other data warehousing tools

Skills And Abilities

• Power BI
• KPI Reporting
• Analysis
• Tableau
• Excel
• Pricing
• Datawarehouse

Work Experience

6+ years work experience

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Supplemental, Life Insurances available + 401(k) retirement plan and quarterly match.

Workshift

M-F (Day) (United States of America)

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