What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pricing Analyst (Remote) position at WAI Global?
Description
POSITION SUMMARY:
Pricing analyst is responsible for implementing pricing strategy, supporting requests for quotations and improve
profitability for automotive categories for Mexico customers as well as competitiveness.
QUALIFICATIONS (Education, Experience, & Skills required)
POSITION SUMMARY:
Pricing analyst is responsible for implementing pricing strategy, supporting requests for quotations and improve
profitability for automotive categories for Mexico customers as well as competitiveness.
- Develop, implement, and maintain pricing strategies across product categories to achieve margin, revenue and competitiveness goals.
- Analyze market trends, competitive data, cost changes, and customer behaviors to recommend pricing adjustments.
- Track pricing models, large customer deals, and major pricing actions post–go-live to ensure they are performing as expected, identifying early variances and recommending corrective actions.
- Support customer-specific pricing programs, large account contracts, and bids—including pricing recommendations and scenario modeling.
- Review price override requests and partner with Sales to ensure pricing decisions balance competitiveness and margin protection.
- Maintain the pricing database, ensuring accurate and up-to-date pricing across internal systems.
- Work with Finance to model the financial impact of price changes and identify margin improvement opportunities.
- Enhance and standardize pricing processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain and Product Management to understand cost changes and inventory dynamics that influence pricing.
- Define with the MD the different pricing structures allowing competition at different levels across the Mexican market.
QUALIFICATIONS (Education, Experience, & Skills required)
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field.
- Experience: 5 years of experience in pricing management, and competitive research, preferably in the automotive aftermarket
- Proven track record in process improvement, project management, managing new RFQs and new product pricing
- Experience working with Excel and other analytical tools, Power BI or other visualization tools
- Experience in working in ERPs
- Familiarity with Mexico automotive aftermarket, parts distribution, is strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of product and catalog management tools
- Strong work ethic and self driven
- Comfortable with data-driven decision-making, performance scorecards, and KPIs.
- Able to operate in a fast-moving, matrixed, and remote-first environment.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills at all organizational levels.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to business strategy.
- Proficiency in product and project management tools, MDM platforms, and data analytics.
- Strong experience in data governance, master data clean-up, and ownership frameworks.
- Change management experience, particularly in transitioning from decentralized to centralized models.
- Fluent in Spanish and English.
