Pricing Analyst

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Local Applicants Welcome.

Department: Marketing & Sales

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina

Reporting to: Portfolio & Pricing Strategy Manager

Role: Permanent, local contract

Pricing Analyst will be responsible for developing performance analytics for specific price promotions to help better understand how each promotion impacts JTI business. The incumbent will work closely with sales & marketing leadership team, along with Commercial Operation team by providing high quality market analysis and insights to help identify business opportunities to achieve company's business objectives. The incumbent will mainly utilize data sources such as TME, MSAi, Power BI and stores scan + basket data provided by 3rd party. Key objective will be focused on timely and accurate data analysis, and other support for Portfolio & Pricing Strategy and leadership teams.

• Analyze and interpret marketplace conditions using high level data, and make recommendations on key opportunities to grow volume and distribution based on key competitor brands (KCBs) and source of business (SOB) performance in each market;
• Analyze RMC performance of specific trade programs to identify the best opportunities for optimization by working closely with sales and marketing team on a regular basis;
• Utilize market insights from marketing & sales teams and develop robust monthly business overviews by analyzing RMC performance in different trade channels and geos;
• Follow up timely and provide effective production of all monthly reporting's to Portfolio & Pricing strategy team to ensure proper actions to be taken for continued business improvement and strategic utilization of company's resources;
• Utilize price elasticity analysis to determine optimal rate of return from varying promotional discount levels by state and development resource allocation recommendations;
• Manage various tasks and projects as they arise and upon manager's request.

A dynamic, passionate, and result-oriented person, with:

• 2-5 years of data research & analysis experience primarily within Consumer Packaged Goods or FMCG marketing and sales functions.Experience with Nielsen, IRI, Basket and MSAi data a plus;
• Bachelor's Degree;
• Fluency in English with excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Solid analytics background with strong proficiency in analysis with vision, large data set manipulation and consolidating multiple sources of data into coherent research results;
• Basic working statistical knowledge is a must;
• Excellent computer skills & expert proficiency within Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint.

In JTI USA, we are proud to be recognized as Top Employer and awarded the Global Equality Standards certificate as we continue our dedication to equal pay and equal opportunities.

Our culture is what makes JTI USA a fun and exciting environment to work in. We value integrity, trust, empowerment, and freedom - freedom of choice, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and freedom to be yourself.

We ask for accountability, ownership, results, and collaboration.

And we care for our people's well-being - In addition to the salary, you might want to enjoy the following:

• Annual Performance based Bonus
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Personal Development
• Medical/ Dental & Vision Plan for employee & family members.
• Life insurance
• Matching 401(K)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Family Leave of 20 Weeks
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Education/ Tuition Assistance
• Flexible Dress Code
• Hybrid Work Setup
• Snacks & Drinks
• Office Parties
• Volunteering Activities
• Employee Assistance Program - counseling, for employees & family members.

In addition to other perks & benefits (i.e. fitness/ wellbeing activities, employee discounts, service awards, recognition program, etc.)