Associate Pricing Analyst

Summary

Zimmer Biomet is a global medical technology company focused on improving patient mobility. The Associate Pricing Analyst administers and analyzes contracts, maintains customer pricing in SAP, reviews pricing requests, resolves discrepancies, manages contract life cycles, and prepares sales and price impact reports.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for administering, analyzing contracts, maintaining customer pricing in SAP, group maintenance, and expediting order exceptions with regional buying groups, medical surgical distribution companies, integrated health systems, and individual facilities while assisting with national group purchasing organizations. Administers contract maintenance process to ensure sales transactions are accurate and recorded timely
• Ensures that the signed and executed pricing agreement is followed and that agreed upon pricing is loaded accurately
• Responsible for reviewing and approving pricing requests and resolving price discrepancies by applying appropriate business judgment in compliance with Zimmer Biomet Policies
• Manage contracts from the RFP stage to contract initiation, perform contract maintenance, sales reporting and performs contract life cycle management tasks
• Maintain group membership lists, group maintenance requests, hierarchy changes, pricing for contracts, and group communications
• Assist with implementation of national agreements
• Ability to interact and be point of contact with Customers, Distributors, and internal management to provide guidance around documentation, billing and price points
• Prepare slides for Price Committee
• Prepare sales history, ASP, and impact analysis for assigned national group purchasing organizations, regional buying groups, integrated health systems, and individual contracts
• Develop and prepare reports to analyze Zimmer sales, average selling prices, and price impact analysis as necessary
• Prepare sales history, ASP, and impact analysis for assigned national group purchasing organizations, regional buying groups, integrated health systems, and individual contracts

Skills

• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrate analytical skills
• Demonstrate ability to learn new software applications and job skills
• Demonstrated knowledge of sales reporting and analysis software
• Highly motivated, self-starter willing to meet strict deadlines and time constraints
• Understands the overall business environment of the orthopedic industry
• Influence the direction of our internal and external customers in regard to contract management
• Ability to prioritize and adjust work in a flexible manner
• Ability to recognize issues and improve current and existing processes
• Attention to detail and ability to work with large amounts of data
• Thoroughly understands and applies good contract management principles
• High School Degree or Equivalent and 4+ years of applicable experience OR Associate's degree and 2+ years of applicable experience OR Bachelor's degree and 0+ years of applicable experience required
• Up to 5%
• 2-3 days quarterly travel expected to Warsaw, Indiana headquarters
• Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP query experience and SAP, PROS, Vendavo, Alteryx, Tableau experience preferred
• Bachelor's degree in finance, business management, or related with 1-3 years of experience preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrate analytical skills
• Demonstrate ability to learn new software applications and job skills
• Demonstrated knowledge of sales reporting and analysis software
• Highly motivated, self-starter willing to meet strict deadlines and time constraints
• Understands the overall business environment of the orthopedic industry
• Influence the direction of our internal and external customers in regard to contract management
• Ability to prioritize and adjust work in a flexible manner
• Ability to recognize issues and improve current and existing processes
• Attention to detail and ability to work with large amounts of data
• Thoroughly understands and applies good contract management principles
• High School Degree or Equivalent and 4+ years of applicable experience OR Associate's degree and 2+ years of applicable experience OR Bachelor's degree and 0+ years of applicable experience required
• Up to 5%
• 2-3 days quarterly travel expected to Warsaw, Indiana headquarters

Nice to Haves

• Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP query experience and SAP, PROS, Vendavo, Alteryx, Tableau experience preferred
• Bachelor's degree in finance, business management, or related with 1-3 years of experience preferred

Benefits

• Target bonus
• Development opportunities
• Employee resource groups (ERGs)
• Flexible working environment
• Wellness incentives
• Culture of recognition and performance awards