What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Revenue Science Analyst-Pricing position at FedEx?
- Under minimum supervision, assumes lead roles in medium revenue threshold projects.
- Key contributor to analyze business problems of up to medium complexity.
- Generates computer aided quantitative and statistical business analysis by leveraging advanced tools and scientific modeling approaches related to customer analytics, market analysis and forecasting in support of the organization's global strategies.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Assists in synthesizing analytical views from various business dimensions in support of business decisions based on business plans, actual or forecast enterprise performance, products, channels, automation types, industry, competition, market and customer segments.
- Determines go-to-market tactics related to specific target customers, markets and products in term of marketing communication and sales calls.
- Typically works in tandem with peers from other groups.
- Independently attends cross-functional meetings and discussions to understand analytical requirements across enterprise business functions.
- Demonstrates excellence in computer aided decision support (utilize computer languages or packages to analyze data and generate reports, presentations or insights in business, mathematics, economics, computer science, or other quantitative field such as engineering/operation research) and programming languages (e.g. SAS, SQL, Python, C, VB.net, Java, JavaScript or R), relational databases (e.g. Teradata, Oracle) or visualizations tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau, Spotfire).
- Mentors and trains professionals in less senior positions within the team on quantitative data analysis. Provides updates and reports to upper management (typically within the department).
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master's degree in business, mathematics, economics, computer science or other quantitative fields such as engineering/operations research.
- Two (2) years work experience in business, mathematics, economics, computer science, or other quantitative fields such as engineering/operations research, in an analytical, quantitative or technical role.
- One (1) year of experience or coursework with the following skills (skills can be gained concurrently with education):computer aided decision support (utilize computer languages or packages to analyze data and generate reports, presentation or insights in business, mathematics, economics, computer science or other quantitative field such as engineering/operations research), or any programming language (e.g. SAS, SQL, Python, C, VB.net, Java, JavaScript or R), relational databases (e.g. Teradata, Oracle) or visualizations tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau, Spotfire).
- Strong human relations, communications and analytical skills.
- Directly related advanced degrees may offset experience requirements.
This person in this position will play a critical role in driving top-line and bottom-line results and , development and execution of future FedEx freight strategy.
Job Specific Information:
- Responsible for pricing international freight for customers primarily in the large segment
- Perform and present detailed customer profitability analysis, considering the impact to overall network and cost
- Use external and internal data to determine the overall competitiveness of the pricing proposal
- Work with multiple stakeholders like sales, product, operations, finance to determine the most optimal pricing solution
- Ability to summarize and distill insights from internal and external data, articles, research studies, and other relevant supporting information
- Develops, measures, and transitions execution of complex business analyses and pricing recommendations to drive measurable results
- Innovates pricing methodologies and approaches and is not restricted to current ones when developing bid strategy and means to measure success
- Leads discussions related to pricing topics, influencing stakeholders such as finance, operations, product, and the executives
Skills/Knowledge/Experience Considered a Plus:
- International, air freight, package or freight forwarding industry experience
- Prior pricing or financial analysis experience, not limited to an understanding of revenue and costs drivers, P&Ls, risk analysis and margin determination
- Ability to analyze and summarize data to drive insights and propose recommendations using analytical tools
- Excellent presentation skills (written and oral) and ability to articulate ideas/complex concepts and complex analysis in all forms of communication with exceptional storytelling.
Work location(s)/Domicile:
- Position will be hybrid in Collierville, TN, Harrison, AR; Plano, TX; Lakeland, FL; Pittsburgh, PA and candidates must live within a reasonable commutable distance. This position is hybrid, meaning that employees must be onsite as directed by leadership but allows team member flexibility to work from home otherwise.
Relocation:
- Relocation assistance may be available based upon business needs.
Additional Information
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Job Posting End Date: 01-19-2024
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