Job Ref: 214822151

Date: 2021-10-05 15:11:39

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Alliance Automotive Group is a subsidiary of Genuine Parts Group a US listed company and the world’s largest distributor of aftermarket spare parts for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The group has global revenues of US$ 18 Billion with operations in North America, Europe and Australasia. The UK Group has annualised sales of c.£700m. The UK Group is a dynamic business growing both organically and by acquisition. The Group executed 20 acquisitions in 2018 and further 14 acquisitions in 2019.
The UK Group operates from over 200 selling locations with a central finance and administration function based in Bradford.
The Position:
Due to internal progression and continued growth, we are looking for a Pricing Manager to take responsibility for our customer pricing. As the Pricing Manager you will report to the Managing Director.
Areas of responsibility include:
* Lead and direct pricing strategy formulation and take necessary pricing actions to enhance profitability, ensuring integrity and accuracy in all pricing matters
* Manage and supervise pricing analysts to support activities inclusive of new price generation and discrepancy resolution
* Perform financial evaluation to assess pricing action effectiveness
* Conduct oral presentations, field research and cost revisions.
* Define new business procedures, evaluate resource requirements and stimulate implementation and maintenance of pricing system
* Manage total pricing procedure, enhance processes to make most of efficiencies and ensure timely response to market conditions
* Maintain and regularly update a pricing history database
* Perform partnering with buyers, product managers and sales department to ensure integrated profit maximizing approach to market
* Analyse financial impact of price approach in view of overall history as well as profitability of customer
Required skills:
* Strategic thinking
* Business acumen
* Be customer-centric
* Personality – strategic planner, confident, competent, flexible
* Effective leadership and communication
* A tenacious attitude to problem-solving
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Advanced Excel including familiarity with VBA and Power Pivot data models
* T-SQL including (tables, views, agent jobs, stored procedures & functions)
* Experience with a reporting or business intelligence solution such as Qlikview, Tableau, Power BI, SSRS, Excel Power Query or similar.
Desirable skills & experience:
* Microsoft SQL Server stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, stored procedures, functions, agent jobs)
* Experience of working within the motor industry
* 2 years in a data analyst, commercial analyst or pricing analyst role (or equivalent)
* Experience of extracting and manipulating data from an SQL Server based ERP system
* Understanding of statistical methods such as regression analysis
Benefits and other information:
* Competitive salary and annual leave entitlement
* Pension Contribution
* Structured career path and bespoke training
* Cycle to work scheme
* Discounts and cashback from 1000s of high street stores via AAG Benefits Portal including, Groceries, Travel and hotel stays, Eating out, Tech, Health and Wellbeing

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