Hybrid Junior Pricing Analyst

at Bridgestone EMEA

• Job title: Junior Pricing Analyst
• Job type: Internship
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Warwick, United Kingdom

About the role

• Junior Pricing Analyst (Undergraduate Placement) at Bridgestone providing analytical support for pricing in a global organization. Collaborating to enhance product availability and market positioning.

Responsibilities

• Provide business analytics that lead to informed decision making, price optimisation & maximised product availability.
• Support with Maintenance of Product Line up for Consumer Price Lists and ensure product line up is managed in SAP system.
• Help sales director, product manager and sales operations manager set the North pricing waterfall.
• Provide Sales Admin Team with an accurate and timely load files following the D&R manager and authority schedule guidelines to ensure all pricing is signed off and loaded into SAP.
• Review Price Variance highlighting to finance any pricing errors in loading and work with BSNOR finance to report to BSEU the reasons for any significant deviation.
• Support Rebate payments with confirmation of rebate conditionality and qualifying payments.
• Provide buyback pricing and support fleet business with IPC management and dealer margin considerations.
• Provide information on competitor activity and analyse BSUK’s relative position within the market.
• Track FX moves between GBP and Euro and support monthly meeting with data, forecasts and commentary to help the business make correct decisions.
• Gain a strong market and customer knowledge of the North Consumer Markets – UK & Ireland.
• Review market data on a regular basis and understand what is behind our and the market performance (Europool).
• Keep up to date with automotive and economic trends that can affect the tyre industry.
• Attend customer visits to get first-hand market information.
• Work collaboratively across the business, learning systems and processes, and propose improvements.

Requirements

• Desired degree in Mathematics, Economics or a Business related degrees.
• Numerical skills with a determination for accuracy;
• Analytical skills to interrogate data and identify patterns and trends;
• IT skills – experience with Microsoft 365 products, primarily Excel, PowerBI, and PowerPoint and ability to learn new systems.
• Attention to detail and the ability to prioritise work and be effective under pressure;
• Flexible approach to work;
• Strong interpersonal skills – an excellent team player;
• Good communication skills.
• A proactive approach to work always seeking improvements to processes and challenging the norm.
• Above all, the ATTITUDE, ENTHUSIASM and KEENNESS to succeed and a passion for excellence.

Benefits

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• A diverse and inclusive team.