Role Purpose

To roll out and train, to improve and drive pricing as a key strategic initiative.
The position plays a key role in ensuring that the importance of pricing (as a key lever) is understood at all levels and helps driving the firm’s continuing efforts towards profitable, sustainable business.

Key Responsibilities

•   Identify training and development needs from a pricing perspective through job analysis, appraisal schemes and regular consultation
•   Design tailored pricing learning and development programmes
•   Monitor and review progress through questionnaires, discussions with senior stakeholders
•   Keep ahead of pricing developments by reading relevant journals, going to conferences and attending relevant courses
•   Responsible for the development and maintenance of a capability to capture, re-use, and promote country pricing teams’ best practices, key learnings, proposal material, market knowledge, etc
•   Set up a network/community of pricing champions
•   Ensure that pricing best practice and  identified & shared;
•   Strategic role in analysing the ever changing market environment & identifying key risks and opportunities, to optimise pricing decision-making.
•   Develop a strong network of contacts within the countries and across the Group
•   Create killer powerpoint presentations that adhere to KISS principles whilst inspiring, influencing & impressing
•   Identify revenue-generating price change opportunities

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Undergraduate Degree – essential (preferred: Economics, Marketing, Business or similar)
•   Postgraduate Degree – Added advantage
•   Excellent verbal and written communication skills
•   Able to build relationships and credibility quickly
•   Great presentation skills – capable of presenting to diverse audiences – individuals, teams, pricing analysts to CEO
•   Diplomatic skills to work across a matrixed organization and be a coalition builder who can easily defend positions from a data perspective and mediate opposing views to assist in pricing decision making.
•   Financial modeling
•   Ability to develop new techniques or approaches

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE

•   5-7 years of experience with proven track record in a highly analytical environment such as Finance, Consulting, Strategy, Marketing
•   Either significant Learning & Development or Pricing experience is essential
•   Learning & Development and Pricing experience is nice to have
•   Pricing experience is essential (nice to have: across multiple industries & B2C environment)

CORE COMPETENCIES

•   Confident and with the credibility to present effectively to senior managers and if necessary challenge status quo
•   Results oriented with proven experience in partnering with business stakeholders with a blend of business acumen and analytical expertise
•   Highly skilled in the synthesis of data and understanding from multiple data sources in order to distil it down into tangible and meaningful strategic insight
•   Highly logical & systematic, team player, independent & fast learner

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested and qualified candidates should

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Closing Date: 13 April, 2015

When you join Tigo, you join a team where your skills, ideas and technical know-how can do more than contribute to the bottom-line. You'll be exposed to enormous experience, great network and a workforce full of talents with youthful exuberance.

At Tigo we are all salesmen and we are responsible for our own development. We consider each vacancy as a development opportunity for Tigo Employees and we develop both the business and people together.