Pricing Analyst

Overview of the role

Work as part of the Bestway Healthcare Wholesale Commercial team to drive performance through effective leveraging of price and effective maintenance of the product range. Carry out daily maintenance of the wholesale product range and pricing in line with the commercial strategy. Analyse, interpret and present conclusions from internal and external data sources to ensure a data driven approach to pricing. Maintain and report on internal and external commercial key performance indicators relating to pricing and product range. Support senior stakeholders through commercial insight and analysis. Liaise with and between the sales and procurement functions to gather key market information.

The role is hybrid working with 3 days in the office, and 2 days working from home.

Main Responsibilities

• Perform daily pricing analysis on all wholesale product categories using internal and external data in order to execute data driven pricing changes at product level.
• Maintain the product range for all wholesale product categories in collaboration with the procurement and sales team.
• Ownership of Pricing and Product Range KPI's and reporting relevant to:
• Key internal efficiency metrics, such as margin rate, average account spend and tote fill.
• Key external benchmarking measures, such as product win rates.
• Identify and assess the commercial viability of new product opportunities to increase the Medhub and Wardles product range.
• Support in the development and implementation of process changes relating to pricing and range management.
• Support through the sharing of key pricing and range information in the monthly forecasting of all wholesale product categories.
• Liaise with the sales teams to gather customer and market pricing information.
• Liaise with the buying teams to gather product level market and supplier information.

Problem Solving & Change:

• Analytical and positive mindsight. Views all challenges as opportunities to improve.
• Ability to work in dynamic, fast paced, and ever-changing market.
• A self-starter comfortable using own initiative at times where parameters are undefined or undeveloped.
• Able to learn and adapt quickly to new business processes.

Key knowledge and skills required for the role:

• Commercial understanding of key business drivers and financially astute.
• Strong knowledge of Excel, PowerBI knowledge a bonus.
• Able to build and maintain successful cross functional working relationships.
• Ability to work both on one's own initiative and as part of a team.
• Self-starter who can organise a diverse workload with changing priorities.
• Appreciation of business sensitive matters and adherence to confidentially requirements.
• Previous data, analytics, and business insight experience and/or industry experience a bonus.

The Ideal Candidate

Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

About The Company

For over 70 years, we've been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.

We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

'Together we make a difference'

Package Description

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent training & development opportunities
• Paid Holidays
• Workplace pension scheme
• Staff Discount
• Travel Loans and more…..