Junior Pricing Analyst (all genders)

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

The Pricing Analytics team contributes to all major areas of the Pricing Platform. We provide analytical insights for our commercial stakeholders, explore business opportunities with Product and develop solutions together with Applied Science and Engineering.

As a Pricing analyst in the Pricing analytics team, your role will be to create and maintain stable and reliable data pipelines, running and designing experiments, data visualisation for commercial stakeholders, and explorative data analysis to unlock business value. Consequently, you will have a major impact on the overall success of the Pricing Platform and algorithmic price setting at Zalando in general.

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 build and maintain dashboards for internal and commercial stakeholder use to allow planning and steering in a meaningful way.

You run and help design assortment based and customer based experiments. You analyse experimental results, create deep dives and share insights in an easy to understand fashion within Pricing Platform and with commercial stakeholders. 

You create new tables serving analytic’s needs and maintain for use in the team and without.

You write papers based on data analysis and experiment designed to support commercial decision making.

You write technical documentation for data products and algorithms.

You communicate complex analyses and explain Pricing KPIs outside of pricing and support non-pricing teams in the use of Pricing data assets.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Proficiency skills in Python (or R), SQL, and git. Microstrategy (or other dashboarding solutions) or dbt knowledge would be an advantage. You are able to set up data pipelines that connect to large and complex datasets.

• Work experience in pricing, online retail, finance or related fields is an advantage 

• You have a strong analytics and business background.

• Experience with designing, running, or analysing experiments is an advantage

• Practical experience with the application of machine learning models or advanced statistical models is an advantage

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

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

• Ability to switch between projects and context in a flexible way and prioritise work given guidance

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

• You are an analytical thinker with impressive problem solving skills and critical mindset and the ability to improvise

• Great communication skills, you are well structured.

If you are passionate about Pricing, efficiency of algorithms, joining strategy and data driven decision making 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.