Pricing Specialist

5 months ago

Chester, United Kingdom Sykes Cottages Full time

**About the Role**:
**Our Revenue Management Team have the opportunity for a Pricing Specialist to take up their latest career challenge within a leading name in holiday industry.**

This is a 10 month Fixed Contract position starting as soon as possible.

Paying a salary up to £25,000 per annum
Plus access to our annual STIP (annual company-wide bonus) scheme with up to an additional 10% of your salary
️ 33 days annual leave including bank holidays
Plus an additional day off for your Birthday
***Plus an additional two volunteering days per year
A flexible hybrid-working policy, with a min two days a week from our Chester head office
An enhanced maternity and paternity policy
Inclusive and supportive work environment
✨ Employee discounts and benefits with your wellbeing at the centre
Opportunities for career progression, personal development and opportunities to be recognised
Comprehensive training and development programs to set you up for success
Study support for additional qualifications, courses and accreditations
Numerous dedicated wellbeing initiatives and access to 24/7 mental health support
️‍ ️ On-site gym at our Chester HQ
Regular social events including weekly Breakfast Club and 'Bring your Dog to Work' day

The Pricing Specialist role contributes to the success of both Market Pricing and New Property Pricing Teams. As a whole team we are focused on optimising revenue for our property owners and for the business by setting optimal pricing for new and existing owners.

This role plays a key role in the department as a pricing expert who is a point of contact for owners and a support to internal stakeholders in the Property Recruitment and Operations teams.

**Your Responsibilities**:
Handling inbound and outbound contact with owners to discuss property pricing and give data led advice

Developing a thorough understanding of Revenue Management processes, initiatives and decisions and using this information to provide expert advice to owners and internal stakeholders

Promoting revenue management initiatives such as Super Income Maximisation & short breaks to owners by selling the benefits. This requires a detailed understanding of the various options and commercial terms in order to maximise income and revenue for both owners and Sykes

Working with the Revenue Management team to create owner friendly compelling evidence to support the promotion of income and short break options

Using various data sources to prepare thoroughly researched pricing proposals and income projections for new property leads

Providing logical guidelines to the Negotiation team on pricing flexibility based on Income Maximisation and Short Break options, creating a negotiation range for them to work within

Assessing and approving pricing proposals as submitted by our Property Consultants

Liaising with Property Consultants to provide feedback on pricing, and coaching where necessary

Implementing and championing new pricing strategies generated by the Pricing Research team into pricing proposals, and promoting this to the Negotiation and field teams

The team operates 6 days a week on a shift-based rota and open hours are from 9am-7pm Mon - Fri and 9-5:30pm Saturdays. These hours rotate between 9am-5:30pm and 10:30am-7pm but may change seasonally as responding within tight deadlines to meet SLA’s is essential in this role.

The role holder will be an analytical, results oriented individual who is an excellent communicator and has a commercially focused mindset.

**Skills and Qualifications**:
We are looking for those who can share in our company goals, values and ethos, who can grow alongside us and whose skills can aid our ongoing success

By _Being One Team, Owning it, Communicating Honestl_y and showcasing a devotion to _Learning, Growing and Innovating_, we remain true to our original ethos and ensure we stay true to our Customers, Owners and Colleagues alike.

First and foremost we are interested in those who have the potential to hold these values, as for this position, we ask you to have the following key skills:

- Good numeracy and data interpretation skills
- Customer Experience Skills
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Understanding of factors affecting price levels
- Proven negotiator in difficult situations
- Strong commercial awareness (ideally within the holiday lettings or travel and tourism industry)
- Understanding of browser based IT systems
- Experience using MS Office suite (Excel etc)

Although standouts will also have:

- Data analysis experience
- Pricing background
- Understanding of demand elasticity and revenue management
- Experience of contract and commercial terms negotiation
- Ability to effectively communicate with other teams to influence change
- Experience of working within the travel and tourism industry and/or property sectors (e.g. estate agency or residential lettings)

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