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Ashley Battisti

Pricing And Business Intelligence Analyst
Nekoosa,WI

Summary

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Pricing & Business Intelligence Analyst

Intermatic
5 2019 - Current
  • Responsible for all aspects of pricing for $170M international business across 8 segments
  • Reduced special price requests, by implementing routine cleanup efforts, and training with sales team to move towards standard pricing structure
  • Have reduce special pricing by 30% YOY
  • Manage MAP Policy - violations reduced 44%
  • Streamlined price increase implementation time from 2 months to under 3 weeks
  • Perform price, margin and impact analyses, using structured data extraction, consolidation and insight analysis
  • Use problem solving to define pricing problems, identify root causes, evaluate data from variety of sources such as pricing files, sales and margin data, promotion results, rebate programs and other pricing tools
  • Researched, analyzed and presented cost savings and improved margin potential moving Intermatic from 1P relationship to 3P relationship with Amazon
  • Improved price realization and margins produced with 3P model with Amazon by 35%
  • Strengthened relationships with merchants at Home Depot to improve retail pricing and increase implementation times
  • Recognize patterns, lost opportunity and generate recommendations for improvement
  • Investigates, understands and includes all related program costs when determining pricing and margin analysis for Customer Programs, Promotions or individual pricing questions
  • Improve pricing tools to advance goals of company
  • Partner with Sales and Customer Marketing to develop best practices and roll out training enterprise wide
  • Collaborate with American Product Marketing team to develop competitor pricing intelligence that aids in annual price adjustment review and execution
  • Tracks progress toward company attainment of annual pricing adjustment in market
  • Establish policies such as Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price that help execute pricing strategy across multiple brick and online channels, including retail vs Trade distribution
  • Develop sales promotions that improve sales performance of products.
  • Developed complex dashboard and reporting tools to track business performance metrics.
  • Provided technical support for troubleshooting analytics and reporting issues.
  • Generated ad-hoc reports to evaluate specific business requirements.

Pricing Specialist II

Pentair
06.2016 - 05.2019
    • Reduced special pricing requests by 40%
    • Improved margin by 2.2% with soft sales market
    • Integrated pricing structure between two plants
    • Consolidated common product pricing between two plants
    • Create, implement, and monitor Pricing Strategy
    • Update pricing in SAP & JDE systems
    • Work with product configuration team to implement pricing into system
    • Lead transition of SPAs to Salesforce.com
    • Create reporting to guide leadership in pricing decisions
    • Review special pricing requests
    • Train internal and external customers on new price structure
    • Present pricing information to leadership
    • Track KPIs and summarize results to leadership
    • Oversee margins and pricing actions.

Senior Pricing Analyst

Pentair
06.2015 - 06.2016
    • Lead yearly price increase
    • Implement and communicate Company's pricing strategy
    • Review and approve Special Pricing Requests
    • Continuous improvement to make simplify processes
    • Collaborate with Product management and Customer Service to ensure accuracy of List prices
    • Review competitive data continually to ensure competitive pricing.

Pricing Analyst

Pentair
07.2014 - 05.2015
    • Implement and load annual price increase into SAP
    • Updating and loading pricing into price books for US and Canada
    • Review, approve, and load special pricing requests, including margin review, and annual impact for both domestic and international customers
    • Review and update customer pricing levels bi-annually
    • Review currently loaded SPA's annually
    • Run pricing files from SAP for the sales team
    • Update, gather, and analyze competitive intelligence
    • Advise orders on pricing hold to expedite them to shipment
    • Give pricing guidance on E&O items
    • Communicate pricing directly with customers
    • Work with Sales team to provide pricing tools and information to provide better guidance in the field
    • Run pricing meetings between customer service and International team
    • Proactively streamlining processes.

Financial Analyst

Thermo Fisher Scientific
07.2011 - 05.2014
  • Forecast weekly opportunities and threats between two product lines, with combined revenue of $200M annually
  • Perform consolidation and complete required internal financial statements and other applicable reports in accordance with GAAP, SEC rules and regulations, and company policies in a timely, relevant and accurate manner, maintaining adequate documentation, supporting work papers, and interpretation of information
  • Maintain and monitor monthly / quarterly close schedule
  • Assist in the development of annual plans and periodic updates as needed
  • Prepare management reports emphasizing historical results, budgets, forecasts, and trends
  • Perform actual to budget variance analysis while highlighting risks
  • Create and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and ensure financial information has been recorded accurately
  • Identify trends and developments in competitive environments and present findings to senior management
  • Lead continuous improvement efforts in the area of accounting and reporting.

Education

Masters of Business Administration -

Rockford University
Rockford, IL

Bachelors of Science - Accountancy

Rockford University
Rockford, IL

Skills

  • Operational Modelling

  • Microsoft Excel expertise

  • Sales Support

  • Pricing Strategy Development

  • Data collection processes

  • Value-based Pricing

  • Competitive Market Analysis

  • Tableau Software

  • Data science research methods

  • Data science research methods

  • Effective Communication

  • Trend Data Analysis

Timeline

Pricing Specialist II

Pentair
06.2016 - 05.2019

Senior Pricing Analyst

Pentair
06.2015 - 06.2016

Pricing Analyst

Pentair
07.2014 - 05.2015

Financial Analyst

Thermo Fisher Scientific
07.2011 - 05.2014

Pricing & Business Intelligence Analyst

Intermatic
5 2019 - Current

Masters of Business Administration -

Rockford University

Bachelors of Science - Accountancy

Rockford University
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