Pricing Analyst

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain price information for various international regions across all Gates products, including PT & FP products and Gates Tube Fittings for both IR and IFF markets.
• Propose, maintain, update, and follow up on regional DAP agreements.
• Keep gross, SQ, and net prices and discounts updated for assigned regions (data entry supported by the Admin Team).
• Ensure all order discounts and promotional campaigns are accurately processed in BPCS.
• Monitor pricing decisions by evaluating performance against budgets, profit margins, and reference prices.
• Document extraordinary price actions to quantify their impact on margins.
• Support the annual Price Increase process, including updating pricelists, discount and SQ sheets, analyzing data, and managing exceptions.
• Collaborate with the sales team and Pricing Manager to drive and support contract negotiations with Gates customers.
• Ensure rebate accruals are accounted for, contracts comply with audit requirements, and payments are tracked and followed up.
• Actively participate in process improvement projects within the department (e.g., CPQ, SAP EO).

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Keys to Success

• Requires expanded knowledge and experience in own area; incumbents are still acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills
• Requires expanded conceptual knowledge in own area of expertise while developing additional skill sets

Supervisory Responsibilities

• No supervisory responsibilities but may provide guidance to new associates
• Builds knowledge of the company, processes and customers
• Solves a range of straightforward problems
• Analyses possible solutions using standard procedures
• Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction
• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work
• Solves standard problems by analyzing possible solutions using experience, judgment and precedents
• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies
• Explains information to others in straightforward situations
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Requirements and Preferred Skills

• 2-4 years of experience
• Bachelor degree in Economics, Business Administration, Marketing or Finance or 2 years experience in pricing or a related experience.
• Fluent in English. Good knowledge of a second or third language is an asset.
• High level computer skills, confident to work with analytica tools like Power BI
• High level excel skills
• Outstanding analytical mind and full understanding of profitability
• Must have a thorough understanding of Gates products and distribution channels in the European automotive aftermarket.
• Well organized, innovative person with above average communication skills.