<p>An incredible opportunity to lead the pricing team for the world&rsquo;s largest student and youth travel company! Reporting to the Head of Pricing, you will support the build of our strategic pricing function at STA Travel. You&rsquo;ll be responsible for data analysis, reports, and implementing pricing strategies across our key markets. You will lead and manage a team of pricing analyst to ensure that STA Travel&rsquo;s airfares are compelling to buy, driving revenue, override opportunities, and growth on key SATA routes.<br />
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What you&rsquo;re accountable for?<br />
* Manage a team of pricing analyst ensuring SLAs are met or exceeded<br />
* Work in partnership with markets to ensure no erosion in trading<br />
* Develop pricing models in conjunction with markets and the Head of Pricing<br />
* Model future impacts of pricing changes<br />
* Develop target pricing rates and margins<br />
* Report on key routes as directed by the business to ensure our product proposition is comparable to that of the market<br />
* Authorise necessary changes to our product proposition in line with levels of authority and as directed by Head of Pricing or equivalent<br />
* Report on pricing trends and provide analysis to feed into our overall pricing strategy<br />
* Report on a quarterly basis pricing trends by day, week and month on key routes by airline, to assist STA Travel with pricing predictions<br />
* Report on airline activity on pricing levels to ensure that STA Travel is competitive with airline offerings, and make adjustments where necessary<br />
* Report on key SATA carriers ensuring that STA Travel is on par with pricing levels on key sectors<br />
* Propose changes in pricing in response to industry activity, online travel agencies, sales, special offers and other tactical campaigns to ensure that STA Travel remains competitive in the market<br />
* Resolve retail business concerns with queries on airline pricing to ensure retail stores can locate online airfares and quote same price<br />
* Make changes to STA Travel website for price differences, errors and report to appropriate authority for the rectification<br />
* Provide data to support pricing negotiations with airlines<br />
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Your profile:<br />
* A qualification in marketing, online, IT, or mathematics&nbsp;<br />
* At least two years managing a team of people&nbsp;<br />
* Analytical skill is a requirement&nbsp;<br />
* Experience in developing models and analysis&nbsp;<br />
* Good communication skills both written and verbal&nbsp;<br />
* Good mathematical skills will be required and need to be demonstrated&nbsp;<br />
* Problem solving skills and ability to work within a defined set of boundaries and decision making matrices&nbsp;<br />
* Experience performing competitive analysis to understand marketing positioning&nbsp;<br />
* Expertise in building Excel models or database queries and analysis<br />
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Other considerations<br />
* The role will require analytical skill, therefore a strong preference in using Excel at an intermediate to advance level will be required<br />
* You&#39;ll interact with markets outside of Europe and UK, therefore you will be required to attend meetings with Australia, New Zealand and the US. How you set up your day can be determined between your manager and yourself<br />
* The role may require you to travel to London, United Kingdom or other STA Travel markets across the world</p>
