Pricing Decisioning And Modeling Analyst

Country: United States of America

What You Will Be Doing

The Pricing Decisioning and Modeling Analyst (Specialist, Model Development) is responsible for analysis, sales and pricing of a large portfolio of products. Key activities are to develop consistent and reliable reporting and analysis to understand and communicate trends, metrics, and indices needed to drive better planning, pricing, and sales activities. A key part of this role is to proactively review the reports to identify trends that are inconsistent with existing plans so that appropriate action can be taken. This would include price changes, forecasting changes, and agent, customer and dealer level incentives/corrective actions.

• Develops a thorough understanding of the firm’s operations and business practices.
• Produces monthly profitability reporting on originations and proactively monitors pricing and profit key performance indicators.
• Evaluates Pricing/Rebate structure for key customers and significant industry/peer groups identifying opportunities to improve profitability.
• Works across the organization to help develop initiatives, solidly based on data results, to drive improved business performance.
• Applies statistical techniques to perform root cause analysis, analyze trends, and uncover risks and opportunities relative to portfolio management and originations.
• Analyzes and review results of pricing and promotional initiatives in terms of sales growth, margin and profitability growth.
• Utilizes data mining and statistical techniques to develop analytic insights, sound hypotheses, and informed recommendations.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience. Master's or Ph.D. in a quantitative field (engineering, economics, statistics, math, physics, etc.) preferred.
• Focused on customer experience
• Attention to detail, excellent organization, ability to prioritize work load and meet deadlines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to implement procedures and guidelines
• Rigorous focus on results
• Proficiency with two or more of the following programming tools: SQL, SAS, Python, and/or R
• Analytical and organized with relentless attention to detail
• Patient, willing to learn new skills and build industry knowledge
• Experience: 0+ years of analytics and quantitative problem solving experience.
• Overall proficiency with MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint)
• Strong intellectual curiosity and affinity for numbers
• Superior quantitative problem solving skills and customer experience intuition

At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce and strive to increase the diversity of our teams. We actively encourage everyone to apply.

Santander is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

This job description does not list all of the job duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You may be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment and either you or the employer may terminate at any time for any reason.

Masters of Science (MS) English

Primary Location: Dallas, TX, Dallas

Other Locations: Texas-Dallas

Organization: Santander Consumer USA Inc.

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