Saloni Chaudhary
Mississauga,ON
Summary
Driven and Passionate Senior Business Analyst with 13+ Years of experience in pricing, Data Analysis, reporting, and team management. Deep Analytical Skills and a strong sense of numbers with solid experience managing all levels of multiple projects, including Pricing strategy implementation, KPI Setting, Pricing Dashboards, & report Automation. Create a strategic alliance with organizational leaders to align with and support key business initiatives effectively.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Pricing Manager
Lee Valley Tools
Toronto, ON
03.2023 - Current
- Worked closely with sales teams to assess profit margins and adjust items and categories.
- Analyzed rates and summarized findings in regular reports to management.
- Communicated with vendors to set up long-term discounts and special vendor deals.
- Developed marketing strategies based on corporate objectives and market trends.
- Collaborated with other departments to coordinate strategic marketing activities.
- Coordinated marketing events for showcasing product and service offerings.
- Collected and analyzed market research data for use in forecasting.
- Recommended policy changes to improve marketing tactics and strategies.
Senior Business Analyst- Pricing
ESAB Middle East FZC
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
03.2021 - 11.2022
- Proactively collaborate with Category Managers as a subject matter expert to support pricing analytics, price gaps insights, and strategic pricing initiatives.
- Collect all competitor pricing data from various sources, analyze it, and produce reports. Providing analytics and insights to senior management via dashboards and reports manages the relationship with third-party suppliers.
- Closely monitor the cost, competitive, and price analysis in the excel pivot tables that are utilized to set our retail prices. Monthly review of low profitability clients.
- Defined and developed a best-in-class suite of Price performance dashboards and scorecards centered around key KPI measures. (Pricing Dynamics, Stock Dynamics, Product History Chart, Price Deviations).
- Lead and direct pricing strategy formulation and take necessary actions to enhance profitability, ensuring integrity and accuracy in all pricing matters.
- Proposing and analyzing Alternate fee Arrangement (AFA). Automation of the pricing process with the help of Business Intelligence Tools.
- Implemented and led pricing strategy by identifying and acting on margin gap compared to the market, leading to a 2% increase in margin.
- Manage total pricing procedure, enhance processes to make most of efficiencies and ensure timely response to market conditions.
Senior Business Analyst-Pricing
Mena Mobile Technologies
Dubai , United Arab Emirates
04.2020 - 02.2021
- Lead and direct pricing strategy formulation and take necessary actions to enhance profitability, ensuring integrity and accuracy in all pricing matters.
- Developing and implementing pricing strategies that enhance profitability; Working closely with other teams to closely track movements in costs.
- Analyzing price change requests from the sales team by evaluating margin impact, potential incremental volume, and competitor price levels.
- Tracking market trends and keeping up to date on prices set by competitors;Assist in creating promotional campaigns.
- Designing presentation decks for Senior management with the help of BI tools such as- Power BI , Tableau.
Senior Business Analyst-Pricing
Eversendai Offshore LLC
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
07.2015 - 04.2020
- Analyze financial impact of price approach in view of overall history as well as profitability of customer .
- Lead and direct pricing strategy formulation as well as ensure to take pricing actions to enhance profitability.
- Define new business procedures, evaluate resource requirements, and stimulate pricing system implementation or maintenance.
- Manage total pricing procedure, enhance processes to make most of efficiencies and ensure timely response to market conditions.
- Analyze a large amount of quantitative and qualitative data sets, create dashboards, and put them into report format, which is easily understandable to various business departments.
- Analyze financial impact of price approach in view of overall history as well as profitability of customer.
- Present insight in an engaging way to empower teams to adopt and apply insight into projects, strategies, and team operational plans
Business Analyst
Deustche Bank
Banagalore, India
11.2009 - 07.2014
- Process audit confirmation requests for account balances, credit lines, authorized contacts, and statements for the audit request received by clients and auditors.
- Receive and interpret incoming audit confirmation requests to ensure fulfillment of the client’s audit within defined parameters.
- Act as the escalation point for auditor/client questions and concerns relating to confirmation requests which involve working with the Client Service/Fiduciary teams to resolve questions, investigate issues, and develop a satisfactory response to the auditor/client's concerns.
- Correspond with auditors via telephone and e-mail to assist with request submissions and provide status updates for pending requests.
Education
MBA - Finance & Retail
Banasthali University
India04.2009
Skills
- Domain expertise in Pricing ,market research,Business Intelligence, Category Management, and stakeholder relationship
- Expert in MS suites of products (word, advanced excel-{Vlookup, Xlookup, macros, pivot tables}, PowerPoint, SharePoint, ), SQL, Python
- Excellent writing ability to tell a compelling story with data,Qualitative or quantitative research experience
- Proficient in pricing tools like -Prisync, Price2Spy, and intelligence Node; Sales management Tools like - Sales Force; Project Management tools such as -MS Project Online
- Hands on Experience in BI Tools such as -Power BI, Tableau, DataPine, Data Brick, QlikSense, Looker, Oracle B
Timeline
Pricing Manager
Lee Valley Tools
03.2023 - Current
Senior Business Analyst- Pricing
ESAB Middle East FZC
03.2021 - 11.2022
Senior Business Analyst-Pricing
Mena Mobile Technologies
04.2020 - 02.2021
Senior Business Analyst-Pricing
Eversendai Offshore LLC
07.2015 - 04.2020
Business Analyst
Deustche Bank
11.2009 - 07.2014
MBA - Finance & Retail
Banasthali University
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