Job Description:
Job Title: Pricing Assistant
Duration: 18th November - 14th February
Hourly Rate: £23.93
Shifts: Monday to Friday - 8hr/day (4 days in the office, 1 day from home)
Location: London SW1P
Availability: Immediate start or short notice required
PURPOSE
The key purpose of the role is to support the Strategic pricing team in its aim to drive revenue and EBIT by ensuring that maximises its pricing potential globally, whilst maintaining consistency and adhering to our overall pricing strategies & principles.
They will be responsible for:
- Seasonal pricing set up to ensure that global retail and wholesale prices are appropriately derived
- Monitoring changing global macro-economic factors and highlighting impact of these fluctuations
- Producing regular pricing analyses including sales by price range analysis, the quarterly pricing bulletin, and price change impact analyses
- Managing markdown price calculations and execution
- Acting as liaison between business and BI pricing team
- Supporting the Senior pricing analyst in Global price architecture analyses and other ad-hoc analyses
RESPONSIBILITIES
Seasonal Pricing Set-up
- Assist in the seasonal price band (core currency pricing relationships) review process with merchants and manage implementation in Flex PLM
- Create and review seasonal retail and wholesale factor files for SAP
- Build seasonal pricing files (e.g., price indices, price increases, etc.)
Global Pricing Architecture
- Maintaining the weekly FX rate tracker and reviewing the impact to country price positioning
- Assist on the seasonal review of country pricing factors, gathering appropriate analysis to aid in forming price adjustment recommendations
Pricing Analyses
- Create and analyse sales and offer by price range analysis to highlight potential issues with product assortment by price range
- Monitor and analyse competitor pricing in order to identify pricing opportunity for the business
- Support in the creation of the quarterly pricing bulletin
- Produce price change impact analyses to track the impact of major price changes
Markdown Execution
- Creation of markdown prices and associated price calculation templates
- Support markdown execution by working with key stakeholders to ensure markdown prices are accurate and loaded in a timely fashion
- Assist in the creation of markdown hindsight decks to understand performance and drawing key learnings for future markdowns
Business Liaison with Pricing Execution Team
- Support the quarterly price change process, working with the product teams and BI Pricing data team to facilitate a smooth implementation
- Partner with Marketing and BI pricing to deliver accurate price information on product gifting catalogues
- Liaise with BI pricing team on ad-hoc pricing queries, seasonal realignments, emergency price adjustments and any other price execution requests
Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.