Job Description

PRICING ASSOCIATE WITH STRONG TECHNOLOGY FOCUS FOR A FAST GROWING TECH COMPANY - DATACENTER PRICING EXPERIENCE A PLUS

This position is an integral part of our Operations/Sales teams. It will play an important role in ensuring high quality proposals to contribute to the continued growth in our global customer base.

The position of the Pricing Associate includes the following responsibilities:

• Create and Maintain standard contract pricing in our Database.

• Create and work with pricing infrastructure currently spread across multiple different heterogeneous platforms and work towards the unification of it.

• Evaluate competition pricing.

• Work with Product Directors and Sales Managers on pricing proposals and put together RFP’s and Quotes maintained in Microsoft CRM.

• Work with cross functional teams to provide pricing, recommend pricing based on previous analysis, trends and help build a pricing model that may increase the win to loss ratio.

• Work with Sales Admins, Contract Coordinator and Finance regarding quotes prepared.

• Design different pricing models based on partnerships and direct business.

• Pricing proposals include work for both government and commercial customers and may require multi facet RFP and RFQ skills.

• Pricing strategy needs to be converted to cost models.

• While some pricing proposals are very simple, some are very complex and need a clear understanding of business processes to prepare requested quotes.

• Capable of preparing and running pricing scenario’s.

• Work to establish standardize pricing strategy.

• Prepare Cost analysis (Profitability analysis) on price quote / RFP when requested or required.

• Create reports on weekly / monthly bid activity based on products / services quoted as requested or required.

· Bachelor Degree with 3 years’ plus experience in Pricing, Contracts, Cost Analysis, RFP’s (Request for Proposal).

· Heavy MS Excel user – Statistical Analysis, Pivot tables, Graphs, Charts, Trending, Quantitative analytical skills.

Heavy MS Word and MS PowerPoint experience