Commercial Pricing Analyst (all genders)

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

The Commercial Pricing team is at the core of the planning and trading activities at Zalando. Our mandate is to drive and translate localised strategies into commercial pricing incentives for our customers.

As a Pricing Manager in the central team within Commercial Pricing, your role will be to support the market pricing teams in their mission of “winning locally” and consequently have a major impact on the overall success of Commercial Pricing within the trading environment.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit. 

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process. 

do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy
Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED: 

• You improve, scale and unify our tooling infrastructure and reporting landscape supporting budget planning, forecasting and intraweek steering processes and monthly/quarterly business reviews. As an example, you will be responsible for developing our pricing reporting solution for Cyber week.

• You are the main point of contact with other engineering and product teams with respect to non-algorithmic and reporting topics.

• You support the leadership team with the defining and executing the operational plan and commercial pricing portfolios in order to improve our trading capabilities in the long run.

• You act as a sparring partner for the trading teams, supporting and challenging them in order to achieve the best outcome for our customers.

• You create simple and innovative solutions that enable the trading teams to quickly turn insights into actions and generate learnings for the future using a single source of truth.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• 3-5 years of work experience in pricing, online retail, finance or related fields, you have a strong analytics and business background.

• Proficiency skills in Excel, Google Suite, SQL, S3, Python and Github. Microstrategy knowledge would be an advantage. You are able to set up data pipelines that connect to large and complex datasets.

• A degree (Bachelor and/or Master) in Econometrics, Economics, Business Administration, Engineering, or its equivalent. 

• Ability to effectively drive projects end-to-end and comfortably manage many stakeholders with different interests.

• Self-driven and result-oriented, you have a hands-on mentality and enjoy working independently as well as in a team.

• You are a strategic thinker with impressive problem solving skills and critical mindset

• Great communication skills, you are well structured.

If you are passionate about localising strategies into commercial pricing incentives and think you have what it takes to succeed in this role, we encourage you to apply—even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles at Zalando!

OUR OFFER

Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

• Employee shares program

• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners

• 2 paid volunteering days a year

• Hybrid working model with 60% (or more) remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration

• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year

• 27 days of vacation a year to start

• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)

• Family services, including counselling and support

• Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)

• Mental health support and coaching available

Learn all about Zalando and our values here: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh_src=22377bdd1us 

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via email.