Pricing Analyst

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Pricing Analyst prepares reporting and analysis and assists in implementing corporate pricing strategies to increase gross profit by maximizing price through a combination of opportunistic pricing (high end) and standardization (low end) while optimizing market share.

RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENTS

• Builds and maintains business landscape knowledge while sharing insight with other associates to provide foundational context for pricing initiatives
• Drives relationships among business groups across the organization, and works with business leaders in pricing, interchange, finance, product, and technology teams to implement new pricing programs
• Leads efforts to provide detailed quantitative analyses in support of identifying and vetting new opportunities to drive the organization's revenue and mitigate risk
• Manages rate change opportunity vetting and forecasting, including but not limited to business case and stakeholder impact assessment development on Annual Operating Plan/Multi-Year Plan from proposed new fees/services and/or rate modifications
• Monitors compliance activities on interchange rate programs
• Supports global pricing strategy development and refinement, including global pricing opportunity identification and pricing change planning
• Works within a cross-functional team and product/service owners to drive pricing development for new products and services

EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree;, or equivalent work experience

WORK EXPERIENCE

5-10 years; Pricing and/or pricing processes experience, or FP&A, finance, or strategy background

SKILLS AND ABILITIES -

• Ability to facilitate and communicate
• Analytical and organized with relentless attention to detail
• Attention to detail, excellent organization, ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines
• Balance of strategic and execution skills
• Customer-focused, Data-driven, experience in customer behavior analysis to drive product insights, including experience with web/mobile analytics platforms/tools
• Demonstrated ability to implement procedures and guidelines
• Excellent customer experience intuition; demonstrated success in creating innovative and user-friendly software applications and customer-facing features
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly motivated individual with the ability to convey a sense of urgency and drive issues/projects to closure
• Overall proficiency with MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint); Advanced MS Excel skills)
• Patient, willingness to learn new skills,
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages in written and verbal communications
• Proven ability to establish and leverage credibility and rapport with peers and senior executives across disciplines and levels
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through influence versus direct management; excellent interpersonal skills
• Rigorous and focus on results
• Strong background in accounting, financial modeling, and forecasting
• Strong communication and presentation skills with keen business acumen
• Strong intellectual curiosity and affinity for numbers
• Superior communication and analytical skills, including a strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems
• Track record of successfully delivering results across organizational boundaries

PHYSICAL DEMANDS - Minimal physical effort such as sitting, standing, and walking.

COMPETENCIES

• Anticipates the impact of change and creates an environment where change can be initiated with minimal disruptions and negative impact
• Helps people to understand how proposed changes will affect them and the organization
• Considers multiple business and financial factors when weighing the merits of alternative risk strategies
• Has extensive experience in interpreting and analyzing a variety of financial data to diagnose significant or unusual operational risks
• Designs, develops, and drives the adoption of risk management policies, processes, and procedures
• Applies advanced skills in operational processes and uses it to improve work efficiency and quality
• Ensures people receive the information they require and brings the team together to share information
• Ensures required resources and skills are in place to maintain smooth day-to-day operations and tackle arising problems
• Keeps up-to-date with external market events, pressures, and regulations which may impact the organization and assess whether similar issues exist in the organization
• Can identify functional and organizational implications associated with major trends
• Designs solutions to address industry activities that impact the organization
• Stays up-to-date with needs, preferences, trends, and practices which impact customers
• Acts as a role model by being a source of advice and knowledge regarding customer issues.
• Knowledge of SQL & MS-Excel

At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce and strive to increase the diversity of our teams. We actively encourage everyone to apply.

Primary Location: Dallas, Texas, United States

Other Locations: New York-New York,Rhode Island-East Providence,Massachusetts-Boston,Texas-Dallas

Organization: Santander Bank, N.A.