Senior Pricing Analyst

The Senior Pricing Analyst role is responsible for being the subject expert on pricing, performance, and opportunities across a portfolio of products. With the opportunity to work across multiple brands, models and sectors meaning in this role you can make a real difference to our customers in terms of choice and value. The role is key to ensuring that Pricing decisions reflect the changing dynamics within the industry and economy to ensure that changes to the future landscape are considerations in our longer-term pricing approach. With a strong focus on delivering sustainable, affordable customer pricing across a range of vehicles by balancing the needs of customers, manufacturers, and our own business objectives.

Working in Pricing you will be responsible for:

• Ownership and subject expert for set model sectors e.g. Mini, MPV, Crossovers, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles etc
• Use a data led approach to make pricing proposals to deliver better customer affordability, model choice while balancing the needs of Vehicle Manufacturers and Motability Operations
• Work closely with Manufacturer Relations to align the pricing proposal and ensure its effective delivery to Manufacturers
• Provide insight and content for monthly Pricing Policy Committee meetings
• Ensure that the future industry dynamics (green agenda, & future mobility trends) remain at the forefront of decision making within pricing
• Use all available information - including qualitative information such as customer and industry insight - to ensure that the scheme offering is fully optimised considering both MO and wider industry future direction
• Present to senior management on a regular basis, delivering insight and influencing wider company strategy to create positive change in the business
• Support the Pricing Manager with effective, timely communication to Motability around scheme pricing discussions (contractual KPIs, vehicle eligibility etc) to ensure they remain relevant considering the future automotive landscape

The successful candidate will have:

• The ability to create detailed proposals which show good commercial awareness and the ability to present these too senior leadership
• Proven understanding of core economic principles, the business environment, and analysis
• Confident to challenge the ‘status quo’ to deliver best practise efficiency and governance processes, and desire for constant improvement
• Accuracy, attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Graduate in a discipline which demonstrates strong communication and analytical skills
• Proactive approach to work, to best identify opportunities
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to manage deadlines effectively

The ideal candidate will have:

• Interest in the automotive industry
• Experience working in an analytical or commercial role
• Able to bring creative solutions to challenges
• Effective communicator, able to build enduring relationships across the business and with third-party suppliers
• Excellent attention to detail and consistent high quality
• Takes ownership of issues and is resourceful in finding solutions

We are keen to recruit someone who has the core aptitudes required to flourish in the role and will seek to support the successful applicant with training opportunities for skills and experience wherever feasible.

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 700,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers.  It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
• 1 day for volunteering
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
• Generous family leave policies

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.  We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.