Pricing Operations Advisor

Summary:
Pricing implementation Advisor plays a very important role to ensure that customer gets right price at right time for right FedEx services in right format.
He/she is key business partner in driving Pricing Contract Management for FedEx global and regional customers across the globe. The Pricing Implementation analyst should be comfortable collaborating in a truly multinational environment, working with different cultures across all the levels and functions in an organization - such as pre-sales, sales, product, pricing, IT, legal, audit, Compliance, etc.

**Grade : 15**

**What your main responsibilities are**
- Key Responsibilities:

- Ensure timely, accurate and quality checked setup of discounts and pricing for all large customers\accounts using the FedEx Pricing systems and relevant tools.
- Transform and optimize pricing processes and systems for improved efficiency, reduced turnaround times and human intervention through various process simplification and automation initiatives.


**What you’ll be working on**

Job Profile:
Pricing implementation Advisor will be responsible for validating the completeness of approved prices and implementing them for FedEx customers. He/she will specialize in facilitating the deployment of pricing across different FedEx operating companies - this includes execution, testing, documentation, and optimizing contract administration pricing processes.

**_Will provide expert thought leadership at the enterprise level related to design and implementation of advanced processes and analytics associated with a wide variety of data sets used for pricing analysis and implementation to enable informed business decisions._**

This position is responsible for entering pricing discount and rates information into FedEx enterprise pricing systems, setting necessary parameters within the FedEx pricing systems and for auditing data entered in pricing ecosystem. This role manages several pricing specific processes that support all FedEx Enterprise Global Net Rate Pricing accounts, including Global Air Freight pricing. This would require working with key business partners to effectively implement customer’s pricing and discounting requirements, planning and streamlining pricing processes through optimization and automation - helping manage costs and achieve business efficiencies.

**What we are looking for**

Functional skills (Must Have):

- Ability to independently run complex projects with mínimal supervision.
- Excellent communication skills and able to communicate with people across all levels. Particularly, must be comfortable presenting to senior level management to secure support for transformation projects
- Key skills in business process configuration and project management tasks like creation of project plan and task scheduling.
- Hands-on experience in working across complex enterprise systems (preferably pricing systems) with good understanding on data flow to downstream underlined by strong governance methodology
- Performing the setup, configuration and necessary data customization for pricing systems:

- Defines and executes on process delivery and implementation plans.
- Tests and troubleshoots final system setups.
- Provides training and end-user support during and after the implementation process.
- Takes accountability and responsibility for process and system implementation for pricing systems.
- Ability to work interactively with sales teams and business analysts across time zones for delegation, feedback, process approvals and monitoring of key deliverables and milestones.
- Ability to document process specifications/configurations/customizations for pricing systems.
- High attention to detail and no hesitation to escalate if needed.
- Ideating and co-creating automation solutions to assist Pricing implementation teams in performing implementation tasks efficiently and with quick TAT.
- Transformational Orientation, Judgment & Decision-Making Skills, Coaching & Mentoring Skills, Influencing & Persuasion Skills

Good to Have skills:

- Data extraction using SQL or SAS (**Good to Have**)
- Data visualization skills using Power BI, Tableau, Excel (VBA coding), Excel Macros (**Good to Have**)

**What you'll bring to the team**
- Past role - Business analyst/Techno-Functional role/System analyst/Implementation analyst / Consultant/Process oriented roles/Transformation analyst
- Preferred industry - IT companies, Logistics, E-commerce, BFSI
- Years of Experience -10+ years of relevant work experience

Strategic Orientation, Judgment & Decision Making Skills, Coaching & Mentoring Skills, Influencing & Persuasion Skills, Leadership Skills.

FedEx was built on a philosophy that puts people first, one we take seriously. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and we are committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce in which we enforce fair treatment, and provide growth opportunities for everyone.

All qualified applicants will receive cons