Pricing Analyst presso Europcar

MAJOR AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

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• Responsible for pricing and yielding at a location or cluster level, working in a team and reporting to the Pricing Manager.

• Analyse the competitor landscape by location, vehicle type, rental length, source country and business channels.

• Run and review business intelligence to support decision making: on rent reporting, reservation reports and cancellation trends.

• Understand the flexibility and constraints in the management of the fleet and how this impacts pricing decisions (e.g. fleet movement execution times, availability planning, de-fleeting and in-fleeting processes).

• Propose and implement pricing strategies to maximise revenue, combining knowledge of current business performance, market position, demand, and business channel mix.

• Communicate effectively to stakeholders current performance of clusters and pricing /yielding actions implemented.

• Contribute directly to the alignment of activities across different departments (Fleet, Operations, Corporate Sales) and to continually apply revenue management practices to improve business profitability.

• Recommend and implement changes to current processes to improve efficiency.

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS

Internal :

• Manager and P&R analysts

• Local country RCM (pricing, Revenue Management, Capacity)

• eCommerce country

• Local country Leisure / Incoming Sales

• Country Corporate Sales

• Local country Operations 

• Local country Marketing

External :

• In support to the team leader on outsourced activities like rate shopping and competitors and market analysis

PERSONAL PROFILE OF POSITION HOLDER

Previous experience 

• Pricing or revenue management experience nice to have but not essential

Education level / certificates N/A

• Degree or diploma in finance, economics, business, marketing, school of engineer

• Valuable postgraduate in revenue management, financial mathematics

Languages

• English (fluent)

Computer skills and software used

• Proficient using work office packages

Personal characteristics

• Analytical mindset

• Enjoys working with numbers

• Strong communicator

• Attention to detail

• Team player

• Strong planning and organisational skills

• Fast decision making