Pricing Specialist

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ABOUT ADVANCE AUTO PARTS

Founded in Roanoke, VA in 1932, Advance Auto Parts is a leading automotive aftermarket retail parts provider that serves both professional installer and do-it-yourself Customers. As of July 13, 2019, Advance operated 4,912 stores and 150 Worldpac branches in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Company also serves 1,250 independently owned CARQUEST branded stores across these locations in addition to Mexico, the Bahamas, Turks, and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands. The company has a workforce of over 70,000 knowledgeable and experienced Team Members who are proud to provide outstanding service to their Customers, Communities, and each other every day.

About Aap Global Capability Center
We are continually innovating and seeking to elevate the Customer experience at each of our stores. For an organization of our size and reach, today, it has become more critical than ever, to identify synergies and build shared capabilities. The AAP Global Capability Center, located in Hyderabad, is a step in this strategic direction that enables us to access a larger talent pool, unlock operational efficiencies and increase levels of collaboration.

About Pricing Team
The Pricing team is growing its presence in India to help expand our technical, brand, and analytical capabilities across the enterprise. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of highly specialized and focused individuals dedicated to driving our brand marketing and eCommerce outcomes in a collaborative environment.

Join the Pricing team and start reimagining the future of automotive retail. Disrupt the way consumers buy Auto Parts and join a fast-growing eCommerce team to take on the industry's biggest challenges.

The focus here is on our customers -- how we make them happy, earn their trust, and create loyalty. We want to expand our best in class data science capability to predict consumer behavior and ensure we are getting the right return on our investments. Ultimately, the Pricing team is responsible for rapidly developing and deploying solutions that will drive the customer experience and, ultimately, enhance our bottom line as an organization.

Job Description
Looking for a smart business analyst for the Pricing Analyst role for Pricing Management function in the Pricing group of Advance auto parts. The role will provide the global exposure to the pricing functionality in retail automotive business at a thriving company. Ideal candidate should have strong problem-solving skills, business acumen and steep learning curve to develop the business knowledge, work with complex data and generate actionable business insights that impact strategic pricing decisions for the company.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Enable data driven business decisions by generating insights from the data to execute the right pricing decisions across multiple channels and discover opportunities of optimizing the pricing strategies
• Work with category managers to suggest/implement pricing and discounting strategies for various business categories.
• Should be a quick learner to understand simple and complex pricing policies and its potential impact on key business metrics
• Comprehend the business requirements and formulate the simple mathematical models to develop the solutions for retail pricing business, competitive intelligence, price elasticity, customer segmentation and discounts analysis etc.
• Use multiple data systems, tools, platforms to analyze the key business trends, formulate hypothesis and present meaningful business insights to pricing leadership team.
• Effectively Communicate with multiple stakeholders while owning various business initiatives and delivering the quality output.
• Work collaboratively with the multiple teams e.g. IT, data governance, merchandise, finance a global environment to validate and execute against pricing requests without errors

Requirements
Candidates should have

• MBA or Masters in Mathematics/Computer Science/Industrial Engineering/Finance from a reputed institution with good academic record.
• Strong business acumen to understand the retail and merchandizing functions.
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills with the ability to work in cross functional multi- cultural global teams
• Basic Knowledge/experience of Analytics techniques to solve business problems will be a big plus. Desirable skills – Advance excel, Python/R, SQL etc.
• Excellent data analytical skills and ability to formulate the problem from various business scenarios
• Should be a result oriented problem solver who can collaborate across teams and functions to find solutions to any technical or functional problems.

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