Strategic Pricing Analyst: Analytics, Insights & Automation

Forrester Research, Inc. (US); Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 72,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Forrester Research, Inc. seeks a Pricing Analyst in Cambridge, MA to report on pricing metrics, analyze trends, and offer actionable recommendations to product and sales leaders.

The role supports pricing automation and optimization, and collaborates across product, finance, and IT to drive pricing performance. You will build advanced reports in Excel and Salesforce, maintain CPQ configurations, and participate in price-to-win analyses for deals and market segments, with a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in economics, finance, or accounting.
• Five-plus years’ experience with pricing or financial analysis, preferably in business services.
• Ability to construct and understand complex financial models and translate analyses into prescriptive recommendations.
• Ability to create advanced reports and dashboards in Excel and Salesforce.com with data integration.
• Strong written and verbal communication, planning, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide monthly and quarterly reports on key pricing metrics for each product line, sales team, and market segment.
• Identify pricing trends, risks, opportunities, and proposed actions to improve performance.
• Present to product leaders and sales leaders.
• Improve reporting efficiency through automation and optimization of reporting processes and tools.
• Provide analytical support on individual deals, including customer financial info and price history to prepare price-to-win proposals.
• Support quarterly and yearly pricing and packaging changes for each product line and region/market.
• Maintain product and pricing configuration in the CPQ tool and resolve master data issues.
• Manage product and pricing release cycles by gathering requirements from pricing, product, and finance.
• Implement product/price changes in master data across dev, test, and production environments.
• Perform end-to-end UAT and manage UAT with business owners for pricing changes in Salesforce.com.

Skills

Pricing analysis

Excel

Salesforce.com

Tableau

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in economics, finance, or accounting

Tools

Salesforce CPQ

PROS

Vendavo

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Forrester Research, Inc. seeks a Pricing Analyst in Cambridge, MA to report on pricing metrics, analyze trends, and offer actionable recommendations to product and sales leaders.

The role supports pricing automation and optimization, and collaborates across product, finance, and IT to drive pricing performance. You will build advanced reports in Excel and Salesforce, maintain CPQ configurations, and participate in price-to-win analyses for deals and market segments, with a strong emphasis on