About us

Gate Gourmet, a gategroup company, is the world's largest independent provider of catering and provisioning services for the airline industry. For the past 70 years, we have served over 250 carriers in more than 30 countries. Gate Gourmet combines culinary expertise with the highest standards of food safety and production to deliver delicious, healthy, and affordable meals to over 270 million travelers around the globe.

Job Summary

The Senior Pricing Analyst is responsible for performing pricing functional work. This position develops, creates, and maintains the customer’s prices in the Company’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and customer systems. The Senior Pricing Analyst collaborates with the Billing team under the leadership and supervision of the manager and director. The core objective of the department is to drive operations in the area of order-to-cash.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establishes the final costing and pricing for assigned customer(s) per contractual terms.
• Determines the pricing inputs through coordination with the procurement/sourcing and industrial engineering teams to determine respective direct material and labor costs for a given menu and/or service.
• Works directly with the department manager, and commercial and customer’s finance team on the pricing approval process.
• Responsible for routine contractual escalations for the customer(s) relating to Consumer Price Index (CPI), and food and labor costs updates.
• Participates in customer presentation activity to support new business ventures and/or menu refresh activity (i.e. summer and winter menu refresh) for assigned customer(s). Coordinates with the commercial and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams
• Enters final pricing into ERP and customer systems. Additionally, audits are performed to ensure expected prices have been loaded to the appropriate ERP and/or customer system.
• Supports local unit finance and operations teams regarding pricing build-up for menu and services.
• Analyzes revenue trends through various reports to find opportunities to improve revenue accuracy (i.e. revenue per meal, per flight, actual costs versus theoretical costs, zero-priced bill-codes report, etc.).
• Performs sensitivity analysis with pricing that may include “what if” analysis and/or review of inputs that drive customer contribution margin.
• Supports the month-end closing process.
• Acts as the point of escalation on any delays or problems experienced in achieving the startup deadline.
• Works on projects and develops Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to improve the function’s output through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Interacts directly with customer(s)

Training:

• Assists team with training and development requirements of the Business Unit and or department. Assists in the training and development of peers and other department team members.

Leadership and Development:

• Collaborates with all functional business units within the department to achieve strategic, tactical and project goals.

Core Competencies:

• Analysis and Reporting
• Business Acumen, Planning and Management
• Communication and Presentation
• Champions Diversity & Inclusion
• Customer Focus and Relationship Building
• Champion for Change
• Influencing
• Information and Technology Proficiency
• Leadership
• Problem Solving and Decision Making

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree required, from an accredited university.
• Previous Financial experience preferred

Work Experience:

• 3-5 years of demonstrated analyst work experience.
• Proven experience within an ERP environment.
• Work experience in an operations or manufacturing environment
• Work experience in a food production or food service environment
• Experience working within a cross-functional team
• Prior training and development experience preferred

Job Skills:

• Must demonstrate and have advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications, specifically Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Must have solid analytical skills.
• Must be detail-oriented, take ownership of work quality, and display an outstanding work ethic.
• Must work effectively in a team-based environment.
• Must have the ability and desire to meet required timelines.
• Strong mathematical aptitude.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

Language / Communication Skills:

Ability to communicate well with internal and external customers, verbally and in writing.

Work Demands:

• Regular and on-time attendance.
• Hours regularly exceed 40 hours per week.

Must be willing to participate in an on-call rotation that would involve evening and weekend work approximately once every two months.

Gategroup Competencies Required to be Successful in the Job:

• Thinking – Information Search and analysis & problem resolution skills
• Engaging – Understanding others, Team Leadership and Developing People
• Inspiring – Influencing and building relationships, Motivating and Inspiring, Communicating effectively
• Achieving – Delivering business results under pressure, Championing Performance Improvement and Customer Focus

Demonstrated Values to be Successful in the Position

Employees at gategroup are expected to live our Values of Excellence, Integrity, Passion and Accountability. To demonstrate these Values, we expect to observe the following from everyone:

• We treat each other with respect and we act with integrity
• We communicate and keep each other informed
• We put our heads together to problem-solve and deliver excellence as a team
• We have passion for our work and we pay attention to the little details
• We foster an environment of accountability , take responsibility for our actions and learn from our mistakes
• We do what we say we will do, when we say we are going to do it
• We care about our coworkers, always taking an opportunity to make someone’s day better

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

gategroup is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status or other category under applicable law.

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