Pricing Manager - India
Location: India
The Pricing Manager will be responsible for the creation and
management of the pricing of all solutions and products.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop and define appropriate price guidelines and bid
strategy for all products.
- Develop our effective segmentation strategy and variance based
analysis to define floor and ceiling price points.
- Define and manage approval process through regular reviews of
price variance charts and metrics.
- Lead effective price reviews on large opportunities with
cross-functional divisional staff teams.
- Assist in close strategy.
- Provide management with monthly metrics including win/loss
tracking, quote variance to guidelines, sell price trends, speed to
quote, etc.
- Determine appropriate list prices and discounts based on
analysis of market climate and competition product life cycle
- Work with pricing and sales managers to resolve costing,
pricing and profitability issues.
- Managing and interpreting customer requirements - speaking with
sales teams and other technical experts to understand, anticipate
and meet their price needs;
- Negotiates tender and contract terms to meet both client and
company needs;
- Negotiates and closes sales by agreeing terms and conditions;
analyzing costs and sales;
- Prepares reports for head office;
- Helps in the design of custom-made products;
- Strong background in network planning and design
- Network Optimization and/or cost reductions experience
- Local Access and or other Telecom Pricing team experience
- MPLS, and IPVPN experience
- Knowledge of Access technologies (Private line, Frame, MPLS,
ATM, etc)
- Planning and analysis skills
- Excellent and written communication skills
- The ability to motivate and drive change within the
organization
Professional Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant planning and/or analysis experience.
Telecom background strongly preferred.
- BE and / or postgraduate qualifications
- Fluent in English, both written and verbal.
- Team player and excellent communication skills
- Advanced Excel modelling
- Customer Service Orientation
To be considered for this position, please submit your
resume to jobs@virtela.net
with the name of the position in the subject line.