Penske

Diversified transportation, logistics, and motorsports provider

Senior Analyst - Product Pricing

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Full-timeReading, PA, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or Supply Chain is required; if no degree is held, equivalent work experience is required.
At least 5 years of business experience in Logistics Pricing, Solution Design, Logistics Product Line Manager, or Cost Accounting.
Experience with logistics costs and expenditures.
Intermediate financial analysis skills and the ability to formulate creative pricing solutions.
Intermediate personal computer and information technology knowledge and skills.
Advanced working knowledge of Excel.
Intermediate time-management skills.
Ability to receive, understand, and apply operating statistics and pricing assumptions at different times in a nonlinear data-collection process.
Ability to adapt and change pricing approaches in response to different product-line strategies.
Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Ability to understand points presented, ask questions as appropriate, and convey information effectively.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job.
Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule and at the specified location, complete the employment application, and submit to a background investigation including past employment, education, and criminal history, and drug screening.
Ability to read, communicate verbally and/or in writing, remember and analyze information, and remember and understand instructions or guidelines.
Ability to stand, walk, and sit; frequently use hands to touch, handle, and feel and reach with hands and arms; and occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds/12 kilograms.
Ability to meet the role's vision requirements, including close, distance, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and adjusting focus.

Responsibilities

Support attainment of the new-business plan while achieving or exceeding financial goals.
Complete pricing assignments and departmental workflow.
Provide experienced-based analysis to senior leadership, solution-team members, and field operations; identify pricing risks, explain pricing standards, present alternatives, and highlight potential expense-recovery gaps in customer-proposed pricing.
Measure new-business activity and continually improve new-business pricing processes.
Support product-line special projects and research.
Monitor and update standard pricing factors in pricing templates.
Coach and support the development of senior financial analysts and financial analysts supporting the solution team.
Develop costing and pricing with product-line managers for enterprise, new-business, and add-on or existing-business pricing while achieving or exceeding financial goals.
Assist product-line leadership with special projects and other assignments, and research and provide information on competitive pricing and costing.
Perform other projects and tasks as assigned.

Desired Qualifications

A master's degree is preferred.
At least 5 years of logistics-industry experience is preferred.

Position Summary:

This position is a multipurpose task position.

1. To support the attainment of new business plan while achieving or exceeding our financial goals.

2. To complete the Pricing assignments and workflow in the department.

3. To provide experienced based analysis to Penske Logistics Senior Leadership, Penske Solution team members, and Penske Logistics field operations. Recommendations include identification of pricing risks, explanation of pricing standards, presentation of alternatives, and bringing attention to possible expense recovery gaps in customer proposed pricing.

4. To measure new business activity and continually improve the new business pricing processes.

5. To support Product Line special projects and research.

6. To monitor and update pricing standard factors in pricing templates.

Scheduled: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm

Location: Reading, PA

Major Responsibilities:

• To provide coaching and associate development of the Sr. Financial Analysts and Financial Analysts supporting the Solution Team.

• Develop costing and pricing while working with the Product Line Managers to support Enterprise business pricing while achieving or exceeding our financial goals

• Develop costing and pricing while working with the Product Line Managers to support New business pricing while achieving or exceeding our financial goals

• Develop costing and pricing while working with the Product Line Managers to support Add or existing pricing while achieving or exceeding our financial goals

• Assists Product Line leadership on special projects and other assignments as needed. Research and provide Product Line leadership with information on competitive pricing and costing.

• Other projects and tasks as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or Supply Chain required

• Master's Degree preferred. If no degree, equivalent work experience is required

• 5+ Years Business Experience (Position experience in one of the following - Logistics Pricing, Solution Design, Logistics Product Line Manager, or Cost Accounting)

• 5+ years of Logistics industry experience preferred

• Experience with logistics costs / expenditures

• Intermediate financial analysis skills and ability to formulate creative pricing solutions

• Intermediate - personal computer / IT knowledge and skills

• Advanced - working knowledge of Excel

• Intermediate - Time Management

• Ability to receive, understand, and apply operating statistics and pricing assumptions at different times in a non-linear process of data collection.

• Ability to adapt and change pricing approaches due to different product line strategies

• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

• Listening/Speaking – understanding points presented, asking questions as appropriate, conveying information effectively.

• Strong oral and written communication skills required

• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job

• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.

Physical Requirements:

-The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

-The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.

-While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.

-Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About the Company

Penske

Diversified transportation, logistics, and motorsports provider

Penske provides a range of transportation services, including retail automotive sales and service, truck leasing and rental, and logistics solutions, plus professional motorsports activities. Its offerings work through distinct units: Penske Automotive Group sells and services vehicles, Penske Truck Leasing rents and maintains trucks with fleet management, and Penske Logistics handles end-to-end supply chain services. The company differentiates itself by operating multiple transportation and entertainment businesses under one private global umbrella, enabling cross-sell opportunities and large-scale coordination. Its goal is to deliver reliable, end-to-end transportation and logistics solutions for individuals and businesses worldwide while growing its diversified portfolio and leveraging scale.

Company size: 501-1,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Bellflower, CA
Founded: 1969

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