Job Description

The Pricing Analyst collects key market, industry and customer data, and analyses and shares key information and insights to promote sound, data-driven decisions across the Nutreco business, especially regarding price levels and profitability levels of the business linked to Marketing & Sales strategy and tactics.

The Pricing Analyst supports decisions and plays a key role in collecting market, industry, customer and product data and using analytical tools and skills to transform the data into knowledge and insights for the Trouw Nutrition Turkey business. 

The Pricing Analyst will provide key support to the business to enable more data-driven decision making.  In addition, he / she will use tools and skills to develop custom models to support forecasting, scenario and strategic analysis, and valuations, among other similar work as requested by the business.  

o Uses data and analysis in problem identification (bottlenecks, efficiencies, insights, etc.) continuously searching for data sources to conduct analysis valuable to Trouw Nutrition Turkey, continuously enhancing the problem analysis / identification in terms of relevance, quality and insights, based on business requirements

o Gain understanding of the key business goals for the relevant business lines and the Marketing / Innovation / Sales team, and determine what data and analysis can be used to support these

o Build and maintain key data sets that would be used routinely in ongoing analysis, including but not limited to animal population data, product price and cost data, as well as market and competitor data

o Provide analytics support as needed for the business as well as Strategic Marketing and Innovation teams

o Advises colleagues and management (pro-actively and on request) on data and insight analysis, opportunities and market developments, in order to optimally inform and advise internal stakeholders and customers about analysis and related insights.

o Marketing led pricing to balance upward price pressure (Procurement) with downward pressure (Sales) based upon price positioning & value selling strategy

o Measure periodical performance against target margins

o Controls regularly margin & volume performance

General Qualifications

Educational background on Business Administration, Finance, Industrial Engineering or a related field

2 - 4 years of equivalent work experience 

Experience in financial analysis, pricing, or related field

Financial background is an asset

Excellent planning, co-ordination and communication skills

Effective teamwork and interpersonal skills

Cross functional and cultural working

Fluent in English verbally & written and ability to work within a global company

Strong Analytical & Strategic thinking skills

Attention to detail and analytical mindset