pricing analyst Wimbledon, England
Job description
Pricing Analyst
Location: Flexible working with visits to our office in Wimbledon as and when required
Salary: Competitive
Contract Type: Permanent
We have an exciting opportunity for a Pricing Analyst to join our Data Science team here at Domestic & General. Reporting into the Data Science Manager you will play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of the company’s data science strategy across a high-volume product portfolio. They will work as part of a Data Science team to deliver in depth analysis on the pricing strategy as well as finding new areas of opportunity using data.
Domestic & General is a company with an ambitious future. We are expanding our horizons and entering new markets and we need your expertise to help make it happen. We are an international company who works with some of the worlds most respected and well-known brands of domestic appliances and electronic consumer goods. These opportunities don’t come around often, so this really is a position not to be missed.
Key role responsibilities:
- Deliver key reporting for pricing to ensure that business objectives are being delivered.
- Forecasting outputs of optimization strategies and identifying key areas of improvement.
- Capable of analysing, communicate and explain pricing recommendations in a clear way that will influence key stakeholders from across the business.
- Be able to implement suggested pricing changes once approved by the organisation.
- Ensure that pricing recommendations result in customers being treated fairly.
- Identifying and understanding pricing trends and communicating this information to the wider team.
- Evolve and continuously improve pricing reporting, analysis and insight.
Skills and experience required:
- Previous analytics experience
- High level of numerical accuracy and attention to detail.
- Comfortable using python and dashboard reporting tools
- Understanding and ability to actively implement statistical tests and analyses, coding, and automation techniques for efficient analysis.
- Identifying and understanding pricing trends and communicating this information to the wider team.
- Evolve and continuously improve pricing reporting, analysis and insight.
- Able to deliver against tight and changing deadlines and priorities.
- Effective collaborator.
- Takes accountability and ownership.
Desirable but not essential:
- Exceptional presentation skills.
- Able to explain complex pricing data to non-technical colleagues clearly.
- Excellent at data wrangling and relationship management.
- Innovative and pragmatic problem solver.
- Experienced at using price optimisation software such as Earnix.
- Insurance or financial service pricing experience or similar product lines, across various distribution channels.
- Understanding of machine learning and data science.
- Strong understanding of pricing models, optimisation and price elasticity.
- Working in a fast-paced, agile environment
We offer lots of great benefits! Some of which include:
- Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus
- 25 days annual leave plus bank/public holidays, as well as an annual option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave
- Training opportunities as well as clearly defined career progression
- Health cash plan – employer funded cover to enable you to claim money back on essential healthcare costs, including dental, optical, physiotherapy and many more. Cover also includes unlimited access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
- Attractive company pension scheme
- Life assurance – employer funded cover of 4x basic salary
- Dedicated online benefit portal offering access to saving and lending facilities, financial wellbeing and support services:
- Salary Finance – access to savings and borrowing through payroll
- Car Leasing – access to a carbon neutral salary sacrifice car leasing scheme, with an all-inclusive monthly cost covering all charge, taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance on a range of brand new vehicles
- Travel Loans – interest free loans to help spread the cost of annual travel tickets
- Cycle to Work – tax efficient bike and cycling equipment worth up to £1,000
- Health & Wellbeing – discounted gym membership, online virtual workout sessions, online culinary classes
- OnHand – Giving you the opportunity to be an Eco & Social volunteer via a handy app. Volunteer individually or in groups to get involved in Youth Mentoring, Food Poverty, Homelessness & Elderly help.
- Employee Assistance Programme – specialist advice and support on issues such as finance, relationships, illness and family issues
- Free Domestic & General protection plan – one free plan each year with access to discounted rates of up to 50% on additional plans, including referrals for family and friends
- Employee discounts – access to discounted Sky TV and broadband packages, together with a range of discounts for 100s of online and high street retailers
Domestic & General are an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.
Please note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes criminal record checks.
