Job Description

Senior Associate, Pricing Strategy – New York, NY  

Are you looking for an opportunity to have a significant impact on key strategies that will drive corporate growth across the globe? Do you have impeccable analytical skills, an eye for detail, and strong business acumen? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse organization where our unique contributions are recognized and celebrated, allowing each of us to thrive? Then it’s time to join Western Union as a Senior Associate, Pricing Strategy. 

Western Union powers your pursuit. 

We are looking for a standout Senior Associate to join our Global Pricing Strategy team with a passion for jumping into data sets, developing data-driven insights and strategies, and executing those actions. The Global Pricing Strategy team acts as a center of excellence for how we manage the commercial and pricing lifecycle. As the Senior Associate, Pricing Strategy you will report into the Pricing Strategy Leader with two key mandates: you will be the data powerhouse, ensuring we are making data-driven strategic decisions using the full breadth of data available clean or messy (e.g., competitive, market, etc), and you will be a thought leader, helping the Pricing Strategy Leader and other business leaders turn your analysis into impactful strategic initiatives. This is a role and team that has an extremely high level of visibility across a truly global FinTech.  

Success as the Senior Associate, Pricing Strategy requires an individual who is able to independently own end-to-end strategic initiatives, from analytics to execution to success measurement, who is highly adaptable in ambiguous environments and who is looking to hone their skills in both analytics and in world-class problem solving.  

Role Responsibilities 

Lead Workstreams: independently manage and drive a workstream, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality outputs. 

Strategic Projects: formulate and propose strategic initiatives based on analysis, and coordinate and manage strategic pricing projects. This may extend from managing project KPIs to creating and implementing strategic frameworks. 

Data analysis: perform rigorous analysis to support strategic recommendations, including competitive analysis, performance tracking and financial modeling. You will autonomously build your own analyses and dashboards then use them to recommend insights to the Pricing Strategy Leader. 

Experiment: turn your analyses into experiments to find opportunity areas for the Global Pricing Strategy team and for regional leaders. 

Stakeholder Management: be comfortable presenting your ideas to senior leaders and creating buy-in for your recommendations. 

Revenue Management: model impacts from pricing on latest forecasts across a full P&L & provide insightful analysis which will be presented to senior leadership so as they can make informed decisions. 

Role Requirements 

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative function (e.g., Business, Economics, or Math). 

2-3+ years of experience in consulting, strategy or business development.  

A hunger to become a well-rounded superstar – we need someone who can drive strategic initiatives and analysis – AND be a general athlete when needed. 

Self-starter – manage and execute projects to completion with a high degree of personal ownership. 

Demonstrated experience in data analysis, driving strategic insight and decision-making. 

Experience using data analytics tools such as MS Excel, Power BI and SQL queries. 

Ability to communicate complex analyses with clear recommendations in a simple manner to a large audience. 

Expertise using Microsoft Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) needed. 

Experience working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment is a plus.