Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing...

As the global lead, you’ll play a key role in driving our pricing across the organization and in assuring that we deliver an unmatched customer experience at the optimal price.

You’ll help us find the right price for our products and services. You’ll work as a team to develop pricing and ensure that our price is competitive, meets client needs, and is profitable. You’ll make sure that what we offer is beneficial for both the client and us. You’ll work across business lines and across borders to ensure that each bid is aligned with our overall pricing strategy.

• Accountable to deliver accurate acquisition forecasts for designated brands in the Value Brands portfolio.
• Influence executive leadership towards better strategic decisions by providing solid analysis & insights to performance data, along with simulation modeling.
• Collaborate with brand leaders to own the acquisition forecasting by establishing baseline trends and layering on risks and opportunities.
• Work with Pricing & Insights team to create and develop Value organization simulation models that will ingest quantitate and qualitative inputs to output accurate assumptions for the Commercial Value business case process.
• Owns reporting and analytics for designated brands, and provide recommendations based on organizational needs.
• Voice of the Customer: Analyzes and uses qualitative and quantitative data; extrapolates pertinent trends impacting business performance and incorporates understanding into decision criteria.
• Track promotions across distribution channels.
• Predicting, identifying and forecasting promos and pricing scenarios.
• Price sensitivity analysis.
• Scenario and tradeoff analyses based on competitor pricing models and value drivers.
• Systematic tracking and reporting of results.

• Developing and implementing a global pricing strategy for established and new offerings.

• Coordinating across Sales and Marketing along with external partners and responding to request-for-proposals.

• Creating pricing guidelines and ensuring compliance.

What we’re looking for...

You are a good listener and hear the nuances in communication. You understand how to balance customer needs with our needs. You focus on the details but don’t lose sight of the big picture...or your deadlines. You like working with people from all kinds of backgrounds and functions.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Strong forecasting skills (time series analysis, regression analysis).

• Strong project management skills, multi-tasking is vital to success.

• Experience managing and influencing client relationships at the senior executive level.  
• Ability to present and interact with all levels of management.
• Excellent communication skills and executive presence. 
• Ability to present findings and insights targeted to what that audience cares about (up to the executive level).
• High degree of strategic and analytical capability, including the ability to analyze a large amount of data.
• Team player, highly collaborative.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field like Business, Finance, or Economics.

• Master’s degree – ideally an MBA.

• Understanding of VZ internal systems & data retrieval (SQL, ThoughtSpot, Teradata EDW, Snowflake).

• You are a wiz at Excel and Access, Google Sheets and Slides.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees’ differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefits, short term incentives, 401(k) Savings Plan, stock incentive programs, paid time off, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances. If you are hired into a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Washington or Washington, D.C. work location, the compensation range for this position is between $97,000.00 and $197,000.00 annually based on a full-time schedule. The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.