Senior Pricing Analyst

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We are seeking an experienced Senior Pricing Analyst with 8+ years of progressive experience in pricing and commercial strategy for complex professional services opportunities, including RFPs, proposals, and commercial & government contracts. This role will be responsible for developing and executing pricing strategies, supporting complex customer deals and competitive proposals, evaluating PubSec & Commercial contractual terms, developing pricing models and cost volumes, and partnering with Sales, Finance, Contracts, Operations, Proposal Support, and Business Leadership to drive profitable growth and maximize the probability of winning strategic opportunities.

The ideal candidate brings strong professional-services, commercial, analytical, financial, and communication experience with the ability to work with complex pricing models, structure and evaluate deals, interpret customer solicitation requirements, develop compelling pricing strategies, and leverage modern technology and AI tools to improve pricing processes, analysis, automation, and decision-making.

Experience with commercial and public-sector contracting environments is highly valued. The successful candidate must be comfortable balancing strategic and tactical priorities and operating independently in a fast-paced environment with limited direction.

Your Impact

Pricing Strategy & Management

• Develop and implement pricing strategies aligned with business objectives, market conditions, customer requirements, competitive dynamics, and profitability targets.
• Identify areas to improve net margin, revenue, and overall performance.
• Develop pricing models for professional services, contracts, and complex customer engagements.
• Lead pricing strategy discussions and formal pricing reviews with senior management and key stakeholders.

RFP, Proposal & Cost-Volume Management

• Independently review and analyze RFPs, solicitations, SOWs, pricing instructions and requirements, and other customer requirements to develop compliant and competitive pricing strategies.
• Develop cost narratives and other pricing-related proposal content that clearly explain pricing assumptions, methodology, and strategy.
• Coordinate pricing proposal timelines and required support with Finance, Sales, Legal, Operations, Proposal Support, and other internal stakeholders.
• Integrate agreed-upon pricing strategies into proposal pricing models and ensure consistency between pricing assumptions, cost volumes, contractual terms, and other proposal components.
• Support formal proposal review processes, including color reviews and executive-level pricing reviews.

Deal Structuring & Commercial Strategy

• Partner with Sales and Account Management teams on complex, strategic, high-value, and/or competitive opportunities.
• Design attractive and financially viable deal structures, including volume-based pricing, tiered pricing, bundles, discounts, incentives, contractual commitments, and other non-standard arrangements.
• Support desk activities and provide pricing recommendations for strategic opportunities.
• Review proposed contractual terms and identified financial, pricing, and margin risks.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Delivery, and Operations to ensure pricing strategies are consistent with contractual and operational requirements.

Analytics & Business Intelligence

• Build and maintain pricing dashboards and analytical models to monitor key pricing KPIs.
• Perform competitive and market pricing analysis.
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear recommendations for senior leadership.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Collaborate closely with Sales, Finance, Delivery, Legal, Operations, Proposal Support, and Executive Leadership.
• Act as a strategic pricing advisor to PubSec, commercial and business leadership.
• Build and maintain effective professional relationships with internal customers and stakeholders.
• Present pricing recommendations, deal economics, proposal strategies, business cases, and financial analyses to senior leadership.

Pricing Processes, Tools & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and enhance pricing tools, templates, models, and workflows to increase efficiency, consistency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate pricing and proposal processes.
• Maintain pricing best practices and continuously improve the pricing operating model.
• Develop training and enablement materials to drive adoption of pricing processes, tools, methodologies, and best practices.

Technology, AI & Automation
The successful candidate should be comfortable using modern analytical, commercial, AI-enabled, and automation tools to improve pricing analysis, proposal development, decision-making, and business processes and have proven success modeling those in past experiences. Tools listed below are some examples:

• Advanced Excel: Financial modeling, scenario analysis, pricing models, Power Query, PivotTables, complex formulas, and data manipulation.
• Power BI / Tableau: Development and interpretation of pricing, financial, and commercial dashboards.
• CRM / CPQ / ERP systems: Experience with platforms such as Salesforce
• Proposal and pricing tools: Experience with tools used to develop cost volumes, pricing models, proposal responses, and contract-related reporting.
• Generative AI: Hands-on experience using tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or similar generative AI platforms to accelerate analysis, analyze documents and data, develop pricing scenarios, automate repetitive workflows, and improve business processes.
• AI & Automation: Identify opportunities to use generative AI and automation to streamline pricing analysis, RFP reviews, proposal development, deal reviews, reporting, and professional services/commercial workflows.
• Responsible AI use: Develop repeatable AI-assisted workflows while maintaining appropriate data privacy, accuracy, governance, security, and human review.
• Emerging Technology: Evaluate and adopt AI, automation, and analytical capabilities that can improve pricing efficiency, proposal quality, analytical capabilities, and decision quality.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Business, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• 6+ years of progressive experience in professional services pricing, strategy, revenue management, deal desk, financial analysis, proposal pricing, or related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing pricing strategies.
• Experience supporting complex, high-value, strategic, and/or competitive customer deals and proposals.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret customer requirements, solicitation pricing instructions, contracting principles, and develop compelling pricing solutions.
• Strong financial modeling and quantitative analysis capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex pricing initiatives, cross-functional projects, or teams.
• Experience developing pricing models, cost narratives, financial analyses, and recommendations for commercial and public-sector opportunities.
• Ability to work effectively with all levels of an organization, including executive leadership.
• Ability to balance strategic and tactical priorities and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with limited direction.
• Professional demeanor and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with commercial and government professional services and/or business models.
• Demonstrated experience using generative AI and/or automation tools to improve business analytics, proposal analysis, process efficiency, or commercial decision-making.

Note: This role has a minimum in-office expectation of three (3) days per week.

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