Sr. Manager, Solution Pricing

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• Degree in a mathematics, finance, or quantitative field.
• Qualified Accountant or MBA preferred.
• 8 + years of experience working in a professional setting, either within financial services or professional services.
• Demonstrated team leadership and day to day management.
• Experience in strategic pricing and /or sales operations.
• management and use of Customer Relationship Management tools.
• Proven track record of delivering initiatives with a material impact on a business' commercial performance.
• Has intellectual curiosity and initiative to build deep understanding of TU Canada business and strategy.
• Ability to translate and implement business strategy into commercially / financially viable operational plans.
• Exceptional technical proficiency in B2B Pricing, financial analysis and modelling and data manipulation.
• Collaborative in style but able to convey an independent viewpoint in order to advocate for TU long-term value capture.
• Self-directed, with the ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities, meet strict deadlines, take verbal direction and perform with minimal guidance or supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work across a matrix structured organization, supporting, challenging and influencing demanding stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Proficiency with analytics/visualization tools (Excel and Tableau; R, Python and Alteryx a plus.

• Clear leadership of the Pricing function, it's vision, goals, execution and team management (current team of 2 professionals).
• Build highly effective working relationships within the Canada region across the Exec, Sales, Product and key support functions (Finance, Legal & Compliance) to accomplish work priorities and with pricing peers globally.
• Develop and implement pricing strategies across customer segments/products aligned with evolving go to market strategy and customer value propositions and business needs/use cases.
• Develop and maintain price lists for all products / service lines. Develop pricing for new products / features and develop product development life cycle & business case processes to embed structured assessment and market testing of pricing.
• Collaborate across the organization on development of global pricing policies and initiatives; lead local implementation.
• Perform competitive analysis / benchmarking and develop recommendations: (to inform and influence pricing strategy, business development objectives and priorities), (to improve TU's competitive position).
• Provide leadership and consultation to sales executives and commercial team to structure pricing / commercial terms for large high priority clients and complex projects; participate and support sales teams in key customer meetings and presentations.
• Work with sales and product teams to: ( reflect price strategies / policies in marketing collateral, campaigns, and value propositions), ( educate and assist key stakeholders with interpretation of pricing policies and procedures and customer interactions /objection handling, including through inclusion of pricing in structured sales training).
• Develop and deliver end to end customer repricing campaigns. Collaborate with Sales and executive management to identify potential price increase targets and build into sales account plans.
• Develop and deliver end to end customer repricing campaigns. Collaborate with Sales and executive management to identify potential price increase targets and build into sales account plans.
• Develop and manage pricing processes / input across end-to-end lead to contract sales and renewal processes:
  • Manage and develop "Pricing Committee" process for key major client / large deals.
  • Develop / implement price lists and automated pricing tools into standardized sales proposal and contracting processes.
  • Develop standardized pricing and processes smaller customers.
• In conjunction with business systems owners / IT, develop data sets and systems infrastructure to support evolving business requirements of pricing function, (e.g. pricing intelligence tools analytical models) to improve the quality of pricing insights and decisions.
• Develop and maintain the performance management framework and pricing intelligence tools which: ( Establishes joint budget responsibility with Sales organization for incremental revenue targets), ( Supports monitoring, tracking and reporting on pricing campaigns and initiatives), ( Supports, drives and incentivizes adoption of best practices and behaviors across organization), ( Reports progress against strategic and operational objectives and delivers actionable pricing insights / metrics to Canada and divisional management).