Pricing and Promotional Analytics Lead

About the role

Beiersdorf is hiring for a full-time contract position in Stamford, CT within its sales function. The role leads analytics that identify opportunities for pricing, product architecture and promotional improvement, and steers the evaluation of promotions and the reporting of pricing and promotional performance.

Key responsibilities

• Lead analytics that identify opportunities for pricing, product architecture and promotional improvement, and establish product and segment recommendations by retailer, channel and region.
• Align with key internal stakeholders such as brand, finance and sales.
• Steer the promotional evaluation process through pre- and post-evaluation and use the insights to improve collaboration with finance and sales.
• Create and implement promotional guidelines by price promotional group, category and retailer, monitor adherence, identify outliers and work with sales and senior leadership to correct them.
• Consolidate, analyze and track pricing and promotional intensity KPIs for own and competitor brands, and recommend corrective action.
• Feed customer and category promotional insights and performance metrics into the S&OP process.
• Own key reporting for assigned brands or categories, train internal stakeholders on the metrics and ensure timely delivery.
• Continuously evaluate what is done and how, and seek ways to simplify department processes.

Required profile

• BA/BS degree in a relevant field; Marketing or Business Administration preferred; Statistics or Mathematics also considered.
• 5+ years of experience developing strategic, omni-channel customer and promotional strategies for CPG, with client-side experience preferred.
• Health and beauty experience preferred.
• Ability to translate internal brand strategy into retailer strategy.
• Excellent analytical skills and business acumen to build business cases for change.

Required skills

• Strong oral and written communication skills to influence cross-functional support.
• Technology savvy, with strong office productivity software skills, especially PowerPoint and Excel.
• Self-motivated, able to multi-task and meet tight deadlines.