Senior Pricing and Commercials Analyst

What is great about this role
Impact: You'll make a real difference! SquareTrade's exponential growth wouldn’t be possible without a Pricing and Commercials team who own all the commercials on RFPs with prospective partners and new products in our current markets. That’s when you enter the stage!
Innovation and challenges: SquareTrade’s Pricing and Commercial team is still in its early stages, which means you will have the opportunity to influence the team’s vision, propose innovative solutions to fresh challenges and build processes from the ground up. Is there anything more satisfying than creating something and watching it thrive?
Self-development: With the size of our company and team, you’ll be directly involved in making strategic decisions to fuel SquareTrade’s growth and boost profitability. Plus, you'll support our Senior Leadership Team with your expertise in data and pricing. Get ready for an incredibly fast learning curve at SquareTrade!
Collaboration: This position provides ample opportunities to collaborate closely with wider Finance, Account Management, Supply Chain, Customer Operations & the Business Development teams. With lots of variety in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment you won’t get bored.
Responsibilities include
Price SquareTrade’s potential insurance and trade-in programs and products
Collaborate with the Supply Chain and CS/CX teams to gather program costs and identify cost drivers.
Leverage your data expertise and analytical mindset to assess program profitability, identify risks, and pinpoint levers to enhance the product’s commercials.
Use your storytelling skills to translate pricing and commercial analysis into actionable insights.
Present these insights to Account Managers, Business Development and Senior Leadership Teams
Collaborate with the rest of your Pricing team, Business Development, Account Management, and Tech teams during RFPs and product launches to ensure a seamless process, timely delivery, and the accuracy, usefulness, and reliability of pricing outputs
Contribute to developing SquareTrade's pricing processes by identifying areas for improvement, utilising existing technology, and designing new workflows to establish SquareTrade’s Pricing and Commercial team as a best-in-class operation
Develop and defend pricing assumptions using a combination of available data, historical programme performance and relevant benchmarks.
What we are looking for in an ideal candidate
Data-savvy and analytical mindset: You are enthusiastic about working with data, able to uncover insights through careful analysis and turning complex information into clear and practical recommendations. In a nutshell, telling stories with numbers is your passion.
Intellectually curious and detail-oriented: You’re driven about asking questions, quickly ramping up, and remaining agile as you receive feedback from business owners
Collaborative: You thrive in a small, collaborative team environment where open communication is essential, and are comfortable working with non-finance team members to agree commercials decisions. Moreover, you can read the room and adjust your communication style to your audience
Ambitious: You’ll go above and beyond to get results (and you’re able to motivate others to do the same!) and aren’t afraid of pointing out things you believe aren’t working and can be optimized
You’ll get your hands dirty: You’re not afraid to jump into confusing messy situations. You love being the go-to person for getting things done.
Dynamic multi-tasker: You are a self-starter and can juggle multiple priorities to make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly ambiguous environment
Organised and accountable: You are highly organised, maintain clear records of key assumptions, decisions and data sources, and can confidently explain the rationale behind your analyses. You understand the importance of transparency and ensure that information is easy for others to validate, challenge, and build upon.
Being comfortable operating in ambiguity, balancing risk and opportunity, and clearly communicating the rationale behind your recommendations.
Qualifications
Proven experience in data analysis and storytelling
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Demonstrated ability presenting to stakeholders
Strong excel skills required, along with strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
Knowledge of the insurance or technology industry will be well valued, but it isn’t a must
Excellent academics and a 2:1 degree or above
2-3 years post qualified experience

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Hybrid