Pricing Analyst at DHL

Role Context

• Responsible for analysis of yield management KPIs, pricing and commercial data in order to identify opportunities for improving profitability.
• In conjunction with the Cluster Pricing Manager, ensures that all countries in their area complies with the Global Pricing Policy.
• Supports the execution and implementation of yield programs such as the annual General Price Increase and pricing processes such as Strategic Pricing Alignment workshops.

Key responsibilities

• Conducts analysis of pricing KPIs to identify profit opportunities
• Monitors the pricing scorecard to identify trends, investigate root causes and make recommendations to improve pricing KPIs
• Supports execution and implementation of pricing yield programs such as Net Price Change, Ship To Profile, cleansing of surcharge waivers and customised PIDs
• Sources and provides pricing inputs and analysis for pricing projects, like SPA (Strategic Pricing Analysis), re-pricing of products/services, competitor research, and surveys.
• Performs commercial analysis to identify growth opportunities while improving profitability and maintaining or growing DHL market share
• Manages annual General Price Increase deliverables as assigned by Pricing Manager or Regional Pricing.
• Supports Tenders, RFQs and Global Customer Implementations in Global Workflow System
• Conducts training and administration for pricing systems and tools
• Support regional pricing projects as assigned by Regional Pricing

Skills

• Extensive knowledge of Access database, Excel, Powerpoint and Word applications.
• Numerical proficiency and analytical skills.
• Ability to quickly learn new systems
• Data visualisation in concise manner to easily develop insights

Competencies

• A good team player and ability to communicate effectively
• Proactive, goal oriented, and commitment to quality output.
• Good planning and ability to set priorities
• A self-motivated individual

Expected years of experience

• 2 - 3 years experience in an analytical role (desirable with DHL) or with Finance experience.