Manager, Strategic Pricing In Optifreight
Responsible for developing, communicating, and leading the execution of pricing and sourcing strategies and governance. Have a firm understanding of the freight market with a specific view of customer, channel, or Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO’s) profitability and deal modeling. Be a strategic partner and influence senior management, marketing, legal, finance, sales, and IT to drive business goals. Accountabilities in this role -• Recommend, develop, and model financials for pricing large GPO’s., subgroup aggregations and large hospitals • Create new pricing strategies and sales guardrails for pre-approved deals and new service development• Create a pricing risk model of customers or markets to predict risk of competitive threats• Implement a standard deal modeling process for uniformity, compliance, and documentation• Advise and model financial impacts for vendor incentives for additional volume• Influence, manage and be creative with market pricing to be strategic & competitive• Manage, model, partner and advise on carrier contract sourcing strategies while modeling business impacts• Recommend and advise with carrier on contractual terms and strategic initiatives to drive growth• Manage and approve contractual pricing and finance requirements and compliance/risks• Leading a team with two employees • Participate on interview panels for hiring top talent and diversity. • Lead pricing strategy for new services, channels, and growth• Understand market competitor’s reporting and pricing and develop strategies to compete• Recommend and enforce new customer contract language to enhance contract compliance and longevity• Partner on third party service contracts and recommend changes while modeling impacts