Senior Pricing Specialist

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

25 Jan 2024 11:59pm

Job Title

Senior Pricing Specialist

Job Summary

As a Senior Pricing Specialist, you play an essential role in ensuring that pricing is well structured to drive profitability and pricing strategy throughout the cross-functional teams. In this role, you provide commercial pricing support to teams to help improve their pricing strategies and foster value creation. You support the development of comprehensive segment pricing constructs, ensuring they comply with regulatory and commercial frameworks and align to overall business strategy. Due to your experience and expertise you make a significant contribution to Telstra’s thought leadership and IP on commercial and product innovation and wider pricing strategy.

Job Description

We are Australia's leading telecommunications and technology company. And with a global presence in more than 22 countries, we have a strong global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We are all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network. This includes making Telstra the place you want to work.

We fully support flexibility and choice at Telstra and what we offer is as unique as you. Will you choose to work from home, in a Telstra workspace, or on the go? A regional location or the CBD? We want you to work where, when, and how you are most engaged, safe, and productive.

About the Role

Our Consumer and Business teams design digitally led propositions for customers and manage customer relationships with their superior sales and services capabilities to acquire new customers and grow Telstra’s base.

As a Senior Pricing Specialist, you play an essential role in ensuring that pricing is well structured to drive profitability and pricing strategy throughout the cross-functional teams. In this role, you provide commercial pricing support to teams to help improve their pricing strategies and foster value creation.
 

You support the development of comprehensive segment pricing constructs, ensuring they comply with commercial frameworks and align to overall business strategy. Due to your experience and expertise you make a significant contribution to Telstra’s thought leadership and IP on commercial and product innovation and wider pricing strategy.

This role is open to Australia and Philippines based candidates.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Pricing Specialist, you apply your experience and expertise in business performance and insights to deliver the following responsibilities:

• Design pricing strategies that have a significant degree of impact to cross-functional outcomes. This will be achieved through maximising commercial objectives and converting customer value to revenue and profit.
• Leverage your technical skills and experience to provide the market-based and value-based pricing recommendations to set pricing and commercial terms for products, services, campaigns and offers across Enterprise customer segments and cohorts.
• Lead your team to support strategically important pricing strategies and initiatives, collaborating with team members and seeking support, direction and buy-in from key stakeholders to generate strategies to solve complex problems and/or remove organisational barriers.
• Analyse new and emerging market trends to build an in-depth understanding of these issues and evaluate their impact upon key products and pricing strategies.
• Act as an expert advisor when sought out by others to solve complex pricing problems using pricing expertise and analytical thinking to resolve issues.
• Facilitate the development of cross-functional pricing strategies and engage with key stakeholders across teams to provide coaching to strengthen their understanding of pricing methodologies.
• Significantly contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and thought leadership by providing input and direction into the development of commercial and product pricing initiatives and recommending step improvements that directly impact profitability.

About you

We are looking for someone with the following characteristics:

• Graduate of Economics, Statistics, Finance, or similar course
• Strong commercial and business acumen
• At least 5 years experience working in similar field
• Strong experience in analytics and commercial modelling
• Ability to analyse data trends and take swift action on findings
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated capacity to work effectively on an individual basis and within a team framework
• Ability to produce exceptional work under tight timefr