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S&P Dow Jones Indices

The Role: Analyst, Index Pricing Governance

The Firm

S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) is the world’s leading resource for benchmarks and investable indices.  Our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios, and developing investment strategies.

The Team

Tasked with determining the fees S&P DJI charges their clients, the Index Pricing Governance team works closely with stakeholders and senior leaders across the business to build pricing strategy and pricing structures, support client-facing teams in deal creation and negotiations, and delivering pricing-based insights to teams across the business.

The Role

The team seeks an Analyst to support the achievement of S&P DJI’s significant pricing-based targets. The Analyst will play a critical role in supporting the team as they implement new pricing structures and strategies. The analyst will be exposed to a wide range of business functions through various projects including negotiation support for new product / use case pricing, commercial term review, and discount analysis.

The analyst will join a small team in a big spotlight, meaning they will be working on projects that have immediate and significant impact. The role will have a focus on building strong relationships with both client-facing and other internal teams, which will help Pricing Governance to ensure they are plugged in to business and market changes, allowing them to quickly adapt pricing and price strategy in response.

What’s in it for you

This role is a unique opportunity for an analyst-level candidate, as it offers an unusually wide range of skill development opportunities as well as high visibility to senior leaders in the business. The business has a heavy focus on pricing, meaning our small team can make a significant and visible impact. The analyst will be supporting everything from deal creation to large data analytics to pricing strategy development and implementation. A few things to look forward to:

• Developing a very well-rounded set of skills, from project management, stakeholder and senior leadership interactions, client negotiation support, and large data analysis.
• Becoming a subject matter expert in a niche industry, due to the optimal positioning of the team as a central touchpoint with an influential voice.
• Regular interaction with senior internal stakeholders through leading projects from inception to implementation
• Working on and independently leading high-impact projects
• Having a manager who is excited to spend time helping to build your knowledge and become confident and independent in the workplace.
• A small team, meaning high-impact projects and personalized learning and growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Build understanding of pricing levers, deal structures, and negotiation levers to confidently review and provide feedback on quotes or negotiation proposals.
• Build strong relationships with client-facing teams and internal stakeholders to support negotiations and independently drive pricing projects forward.
• Leverage knowledge gathered from quotes, negotiations, and deal outcomes to inform price changes or overall pricing strategy recommendations.
• Analyze price achievement data and leverage relationships across the business to identify existing and emerging pricing trends.
• Support development, proposal, and implementation of price changes based on business and market requirements.
• Support overall maintenance of pricing tools and datasets.
• Create tools to support client-facing teams in preparing for negotiations, including relationship overview or price comparison tools.
• Report on success of pricing initiatives.

What we’re looking for

• 1-2 years of experience in similar environments (finance not required).
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to change.
• Strong relationship building skills.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to draw conclusions from large datasets.
• Strong communication skills – written, verbal and presentation.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Data analysis skills (Excel, Tableau)
• Programming skills a plus (Python, R)
• Microsoft tools (Powerpoint)
• Google / ChatGPT
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