VAS Pricing Analyst

RJW Logistics • Full-time • Lockport, Illinois, United States • $70k - $75k / year • 2d ago

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Benefits:

401(k) matching
Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
Employee discount
Flexible spending account
Health savings account
Paid time off
Sick Days
Long-term Disability Insurance
Short-term Disability Insurance
Accidental Insurance
Critical Illness Insurance
Disability Insurance

Job Purpose: The VAS pricing analyst will serve as an internal & external point of contact for pricing value-added services projects. The VAS Pricing analyst will work closely and report to the VAS pricing Manager. This role will also be responsible for creating and recommending pricing strategies and models to ensure profit margins are competitive. The VAS pricing analyst will be responsible for logging pricing data across all customers inside of VAS. This position will require strong data interpretation skills with a focus on pricing strategy and development.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Providing clear pricing quotes to customers.
Providing excellent customer service and data to customers.
Responsible for organization of customer pricing.
Responsible for collaboration with sales on pricing strategies into the overall business strategy.
Responsible for creating and recommending pricing strategies and models to ensure profit margins.
Responsible for design, implementation, and execution of pricing flow/quotation for customer.

Additional Responsibilities:

Ability to work with other departments and VAS operations/Project team on delivering pricing information.
Ability to think and act critically and creatively to any unforeseen issues that arises during quotation process.
Communicating daily with customers and answering customer emails hourly.
Responsible for Daily- Weekly-Monthly customer calls and contact with VAS pricing manager.
Responsible for key project documentation. (Creating, Housing, organizing, and retaining).
Excellent verbal and written skills.

Qualifications:

2yr College Degree in one of the following areas or 3-5 years work experience in production (Fulfillment) environment.
- Pricing Analyst
- Data Analyst
- Finance
Experience using WMS software.
PC literate with experience or knowledge with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and Access Database.

Language Skills Sets:

English – Written / Oral is required.
Spanish – Written / Oral is a plus, but not required.

Physical Demands:

Must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Must be able to stand; walk; stoop; kneel; crouch; or crawl.
Must be able to activate phone systems utilizing keyboards and buttons.
Must be articulate and comfortable speaking in front of others.
Regularly works in an indoor/office environment and required to sit and/or use repetitive hand motion.
Frequently required to talk, hear, stand and walk.
Must be able to work in excess of continuous 8 hours when required.
Must be able to work under stressful situations, have good cognitive skills, maintain work accuracy, and the ability to concentrate on more than one task at a time.
Must have the ability to read and discern visual images on a variety of media with 20/20 corrected vision.
Must be able to speak and communicate clearly over telephones.
Must be in sound physical health as determined by a certified licensed physician with no evidence of the use of controlled substances.

Work Environment:

Combination of office and work environment, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment will range from quiet to moderately loud.
Must be able to travel between facilities.

Employer Rights:

This job description is intended to provide general information about the Vas Pricing Analyst position. The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of the job duties to be performed by an associate holding the position of VAS Pricing Analyst, nor are the lists of the physical requirements and environmental conditions exhaustive. You may be asked by your supervisor or managers to perform other duties. Your performance will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the job duties listed in this job description, as well as any job duties not specifically listed above that you may be asked from time to time to perform.

As with all positions, the duties and responsibilities are subject to change at any time as needs arise and at the discretion of the RJW Transport, Inc. The Company has the right to revise this job description at any time.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Ability to determine “root cause” of problem and determine corrective action.

Employment-At-Will:

It is the Company’s policy that all associates, other than those covered by a written individual employment or labor agreement with the Company that has been authorized in writing by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer or Board of Directors, are not employed for any fixed term and are employed at the will of the Company for an indefinite period. Just as our associate’s, reserve the right to resign their employment at any time for any reason the Company reserves its right to terminate an associate any time for any reason either with or without cause.

Neither this Job Description nor any of its individual terms constitutes commitments between the Company and its associates as to the terms, conditions or duration of employment, nor does it modify the prevailing Employment-At-Will relationship.