We are currently looking to recruit a Strategic Pricing Manager for Automotive Aftersales Services in the UAE. Reporting to the Head of Strategical Analytics and Pricing, you will manage the aftersales pricing for parts, tyres, batteries, consumables and accessories with the responsibility of identifying and implementing pricing methodologies in order to create a significant margin increase. You will implement automotive aftersales parts pricing and manage a central source for parts related market intelligence.

Specifically, your key responsibilities are as follows:

Utilize data science (MS Azure, ML Studio, R, Phyton) and data engineering (Alteryz, SQL) to improve efficiencies, improve cost and increase profit margins.

Design and deliver the next generation of Pricing related transformative analytics and artificial intelligence technological solutions to address key business challenges and opportunities

Implement and manage an automotive Group Wide Pricing Strategy

Manage Systems and processes to enable greater price management to increase revenue and margin and improve stock health

Work with Business Units to develop and implement new and more effective Pricing techniques Technologies and processes to increase revenue and customer loyalty

Create tactical analysis and market competitor intelligence to enable business heads to make to inform strategic decision- making

Identify opportunities to change Prices to either improve Volume or margin

Manage an automotive group wide Market Intelligence process

Update comprehensive industry, competitor and customer models including, but not limited to, market share, growth projections and trends, and market forces.

Collate competition data and market trends from internal and external sources and utilize systems and technologies (Web Scrapping, data collection portals, markets surveys, mystery shopping) to influence parts pricing and strategic business decision making

Support the thorough, systematic analysis of key industry trends; the general social economic and political environment; legal and regulatory issues; customers; current and potential competitors to allow effective strategic and tactical decision- making and implementation

Compile review and interpreted sales performance to support the parts sales operation

Set up and manage sales discount margins in line with pricing strategy

Support the quotation to deal process though the use of advanced pricing and quotation tools

Manage dealer loyalty and give detailed report to the sales team to improve dealer purchasing

Manage both dealer rebates and sales person’s incentive via advanced measuring tools

About You:

The ideal candidate for this role will possess the following qualifications, skills and experience:

Bachelor’s Degree (MBA Preferred) with demonstrated experience in any of the following: – Business Administration, Economics, Pricing, Procurement and Supplies Management.

Minimum 5 years’ work experience in a multinational environment

Distributor and OEM experience is an advantage

5+ years of hands- on work experience using analytical tools (e.g., R, Python) to solve real world problems

Distinctive expertise in one of the following machine learning / AI areas: natural language processing, deep learning, anomaly detection, graph- based techniques

Experience programming (beyond simple scripts) in a modern scientific language (e.g., Python, Matlab, R) and experience with either TensorFlow, Spark, Java, C#, C++, or C. Knowledge of SQL and SAS would be a plus

Focus on driving commercial results with measurable KPIs

Exceptional communication skills, especially around translating technical knowledge into forms that can be digested by leadership and non- technical project teams

Excellent analytical and problem- solving skills

Highly adaptable with meticulous attention to detail

Excellent organizational abilities