Pricing Analyst, Corporate Accounts (Temporary)

Pricing Analyst, Corporate Accounts, will be responsible for customer specific pricing strategy recommendations, customer contract analysis, and company-wide pricing analytics and reporting. Your role as Pricing Analyst is to drive and prepare detailed pricing analyses, participate and lead strategic projects and optimize existing processes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze and model pricing scenarios for Requests for Proposals (RFPs) across national Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs), Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), government entities, key accounts, distributors, and other customer segments
• Provides analytics and recommendations to support contract and pricing strategic planning, provides rationale for pricing approvals and recommended course of action to ensure maximization of profitability.
• Work closely with Corporate Accounts Team to support day to day account activities including RFPs and contract amendments
• Create and support the maintenance of analytical tools and systems utilized to guide pricing decisions
• Lead strategic pricing analytic projects and optimization of existing processes
• Works with cross functional teams and leaders in the organization to develop, implement and administer processes, procedure and policies to increase overall productivity, efficiency and accuracy for new product launches and pricing initiatives.
• Build and operate financial models to report, assess and communicate customer performance
• Recommend actions for critical business issues through ad-hoc analyses and insights
• Creates business review packets summarizing sales history, contract terms, opportunities for contract optimization and price improvements as well as including recommendations for contract compliance opportunities.
• Track growth opportunities including vendor consolidation execution and reporting for hospital and surgeon conversion campaigns and initiatives.
• Support and manage product additions including but not limited to NPI
• Manage customer accounts including customer price files to avoid pricing discrepancies
• Work closely with the field sales team on payment approvals and investigate payment discrepancies
• Monitor pricing team inbox and Pricing Queue; research and problem solve to resolve questions from field sales team and customers
• Interacts and collaborates with Finance and Accounting to ensure proper billing, commission reductions, credit memos, and admin fee and rebate accruals as well as providing audit support.
• Available during each month end to work through all pricing challenges with cross functional leaders to ensure all orders on pricing hold are released for revenue recognition.
• Performs other duties as assigned