Pricing Advisor

General Summary

 The Pricing Advisor is responsible for costing and pricing new and existing deals, presenting findings to senior leadership, and tracking progress against the original analysis by facilitating various work streams, creating and implementing departmental processes, tools and techniques. The successful candidate will be driven, self-motivated, and will support the company’s strategic vision as it relates to new business and customer portfolio management. 

 This role will have significant exposure to executive management and is critical to the organization’s long-term profitability through active portfolio analytics and management.

 Provides mentoring for the development of those in less senior positions.

 Primary Responsibilities 

1. Advanced understanding of operational design, workflows and layouts for large-scale, complex supply chain operations.
2. Advanced/intuitive understanding of engineering analysis, innovation and experience within the target market to provide differentiating solutions.
3. Perform modeling utilizing MS Excel and other tools in support of the recommended operation solution design.
4. Perform and review strategic, financial analysis to drive optimal business processes and take advantage of program/customer synergies and growth potentials.
5. Creates, maintains and reviews cost/price analysis models to improve productivity and drive program profitability, especially for the new programs.
6. Analyzes and reviews financial and operational performance, provides concise, relevant explanations, observations and/or recommendations to leadership and executive management.
7. Develop standard models that produce accelerated and accurate results for opportunities that require standard solutions
8. Knowledge in the use of optimization/decision support tools to perform global supply chain studies, routing optimization and operating cost analyses.
9. May act as the sole pricing and solutions single POC for small, quick turn warehousing opportunities
10. Reviews, provides feedback and populates cost models with all required data to support the complete and accurate costing and pricing of solutions.
11. Present pricing models to internal customers including solutions and senior management teams
12. Review, support and present solutions, data, and models to external customers including Procurement, Operational Managers and senior leadership teams.
13. Interface as required with customers and various internal cross functional groups.
14. Support the analyses of a potential Customers’ facilities, operations, supply chain and associated data as part of the new business development process.
15. Liaise with internal departments (IT, QA, Purchasing, Operations, Sales, Inventory Control, Finance, Human Resources, Project Management, Engineering, and Maintenance) as required on opportunities.
16. Provides prioritization of projects and deliverables for pricing teammates

Education/Experience

1. Bachelor’s Degree in related field preferred (i.e. Financial and/or Supply Chain) and a minimum of 8-10 years of relevant experience.
2. In lieu of degree, high school diploma or GED and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
3. Knowledge of conveyance, automatic sortation equipment, material handling equipment, and product storage systems desirable.
4. Experience in a corporate financial analysis function or other analytical function (pricing, finance, engineering, operations functions would provide a strong background for this position).
5. Experience in a Pricing or related analytical function. Direct experience in 3PL pricing, solutions, finance is a plus.
6. Strong understanding of statistics and the ability to apply statistical concepts in practice.
7. Advanced understanding of 3PL warehousing operational processes and facility layouts
8. High level of competency with MS Office Tools (Word, Excel, Project, Power Point, Visio, Access and other simulation tools).

Physical/Cognitive Requirements

1. With or without accommodation:
2.  Ability to follow policies and procedures.
3. Ability to read, write and interpret information.
4. Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide.
5. Ability to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
6. Ability to sit/walk/stand for up to 8 hours per day. 
7. Must possess visual acuity, i.e., close, distance, and color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions

 General office environment that is generally favorable.  Lighting and temperature are adequate, and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc.  Work is generally performed within an office environment with standard office equipment available.

 ADA

 The Company is committed to making reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the ADA and any other applicable federal, state, or local laws.  If you require an accommodation to perform the job, now or in the future, please contact your Human Resources Representative.  Upon request, Human Resources will engage in an interactive process with you to determine whether a reasonable accommodation is available.

Disclaimer

The above information is only an illustration of the general nature and level of work performed by the employee within this classification.  The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the Company and employee and is subject to change by the Company as the needs of the Company and requirements of the job change.