EE Pricing Strategy Analyst

SUMMARY:
Are you a forward-thinking Pricing Strategy Analyst? Someone who loves living in the intersection of data, commercial strategy and algorithmic problem-solving? If you think in models, understand elasticity, enjoy building frameworks, and can translate complex data signals into commercially intelligent pricing decisions, you’ll thrive here. Given the pace and complexity of the function, we’re looking for someone who already has strong pricing and data capability and can take ownership right away.

POSITION INFO:
What you’ll do:

• Design and refine pricing strategies that drive margin, competitiveness and customer value.
• Build pricing methodologies grounded in elasticity, modelling, competitive benchmarking and predictive analytics.
• Own and configure pricing tools, algorithms and decision parameters.
• Create scenarios and run simulations (competitor pricing, promotional impact, price sensitivity) and present insights to senior leadership.
• Partner closely with the Pricing Analyst, Data and Commercial teams to ensure high-quality inputs and strategically aligned outputs.
• Influence pricing adoption at scale across divisions and formats.
• Lead pricing workshops on pricing methodologies to build organisation-wide pricing capability.

• Honours (NQF8) Degree in Data Science, Analytics or related field (Masters Degree advantageous).
• Minimum 5 to 10 years in pricing strategy, category management, merchandising, revenue management or a data-heavy commercial role.
• Experience in configuring pricing tools, sales forecasting, margin management and profitability analysis.
• A cerebral, analytical mindset (you love interpreting complex datasets).
• Strong understanding of pricing logic, elasticity, modelling and market trends.
• Advanced Excel, SQL and BI proficiency (Power BI/Tableau).
• Proficiency in SAP and data modelling.
• Ability to build, test and optimise pricing algorithms and frameworks.