Pricing Lead

About Planet

Planet is a global provider of integrated technology and payments solutions for retail and hospitality customers.

We create great experiences for the millions of people who use our payments, software, and tax-free solutions every minute of every day.

Planet empowers its customers to deliver great customer experiences by combining payments and software in ways that drive greater loyalty, increase revenue and save time.

Founded over 35 years ago and with our headquarters in London, today we have more than 2,500 employees located across six continents serving our customers in more than 120 markets.

Commercial FinanceTeam

The finance function within Planet has a mission to support and help drive the commercial growth of the business through business partnering and insightful management data. We are looking for talented team members who are:

• Analytical, data driven and curious about business performance drivers
• Focused on driving efficient and effective processes
• Comfortable in challenging and supporting business partners in achieving accelerated growth

Role Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Pricing Lead,you will be responsible for owning the central pricing policy, governance and optimization of revenue through pricing levers, working closely with stakeholders across the organization including finance, commercial, tech, product, legal and operations.

You will be comfortable analysing large amounts of complex transactional data to identify pricing opportunities and thrive in developing relationships across the business while strategizing how to optimize our portfolio and rapidly growing business.

What you will do

• Oversee central pricing policy and governance – assess where changes are required (country level, volume tiers, etc)
• Strategize potential pricing opportunities and assess opportunity potential / ROI (bundle / cross-sell into PMS)
• Lead monthly executive pricing forum to gain alignment / approval on policy changes and implementation plans.
• Project manage / lead implementation of portfolio pricing increases across payment stack and potentially tax free.
• Collaborate with technical, product and operations teams to understand current platform and billing abilities and customer flow to ensure optimization of pricing implementation.
• Collaborate with Commercial sales teams and Divisional CFO to gain understanding of market landscape (may conduct external assessments)
• Create quarterly reporting on pricing initiatives, analytics with key pricing trends on new deals
• Manage team responsible for pricing tool and interaction with legal / salesforce
• Collaborate with head of fx/settlement on key fx initiatives
• Assist teams in large RFP / Key deals (not a core profile); may include development of future deal desk staff (currently managed by divisional finance teams)

Who you are

• Bring expertise from the Payments Acquiring industry from a pricing perspective
• Experienced in analysing country / division / product performance and identifying trends and seeing where best practices can be shared.
• A great communicator and adept at building relationships across teams, while exerting persistence and resourcefulness
• Must be logical, self-motivated, proactive, with strong analytical skills and a high level of intellectual curiosity
• Excellent time management skills, demonstrating high levels of accuracy, thoroughness and reliability whilst coping under pressure
• Strong system and advanced excel skills to deal with large data and pricing models.
• Flexible and a genuine team player willing to go the extra mile to support others

Why Planet

Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce.We would love to hear from you – Apply now .

At Planet, we embrace a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office.

Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.

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