Company Description

Company Description

Informa is a leading international events, intelligence, and scholarly research group.  Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs, and take better informed decisions.  Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 12,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.

Informa’s divisions include: Informa Connect, Informa Markets, Informa Tech, Taylor & Francis and Global Support.

Informa is a successful and diverse business that has been built over the past twenty years through a mix of organic growth and acquisition. Informa is transforming itself to increase digital capability and the mix of revenues, with the expectation that far higher proportions of revenue are derived from new digital products and through the sales of all products through digital channels. As a contemporary B2B provider of solutions and services, we anticipate the need to enable customer touchpoints through digitalising processes that are currently offline, and through shaping and establishing a digital ecosystem over the next 5 years, whilst firmly establishing our position within it, thereby providing our B2B customers with end-to-end go-to-market solutions. This has resulted in strategic programmes like GAP II, focused on a digital acceleration and associated investment and the Unifying Technology Programme, focused on transforming the Technology Operating Model.

Global Support and the Commercial Office Remit

• Global Support is Informa’s fifth division, with major service hubs in the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, and Singapore as well as several smaller locations. Global Support colleagues provide shared, efficient business services and function-specific expertise to each of Informa’s operating divisions, enabling our commercial teams to focus on their markets and customers.
   
• Technology Solutions & Services is a key function within Global Support, with responsibility for the management and evolution of the key enterprise technology disciplines that underpin day to day business operations including Strategy & Technology Change, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Technology, Customer Technology, Technology Operations, and Information Security. The Technology function is embarking on a clear roadmap for the modernisation of legacy services whilst developing new platforms, solutions and techniques that transform the TS&S team into an enabler of reliable, scalable and secure services that support Informa’s digital agenda and diverse customer landscape, through the Unifying Technology Programme. We recognise the need for change and have a good understanding of where we need to get to. We need people to help us shape, solve problems and deliver the change agenda. Ensuring that we are seen as a trusted partner to our business colleagues. Successful candidates will be ready to be Customer-focused, collaborative and growth focused.
• Real Estate: the RE team oversees Informa’s office landscape, with c.130 offices across the globe.  The team of 34 is directly responsible for the day-to-day running, budgets, and leases of Informa’s major shared office locations (e.g. London, Dubai, New York etc.) as well as oversight and support of divisionally owned offices. The team has accountability for managing Informa’s 156 leases, as well as overseeing projects to refurbish and relocate offices as required. Currently, a proportion of the estate is being adapted to reflect Informa's balanced working approach, with Amsterdam and 5 Howick Place, reflecting the new design and model.

Job Description

Role Overview:

Pricing expertise is a new competency we are building within Informa Plc.  Informa Connect is a division within Informa selling events, media, and subscriptions.  The pricing analyst role is a new one which will contribute to the company's financial success by ensuring that pricing decisions are data-driven and aligned with the organisation's goal of applying value-based pricing strategies to increase revenue and improve margin. 

This role is part of the central support team and will work closely with brands to influence and support their pricing decisions

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Pricing Sign off Process for Informa Connect’s Top revenue producers (Millionaire’s Club – MC Events.)
  • Liaise with key stakeholders and teams to maintain weekly tracker of sign off progress to ensure ability to achieve sign off timelines.
  • Organise briefing meetings where needed to ensure all key stakeholders are aligned and clear on responsibilities.
  • Work closely with the data team to develop timelines for data requirements and to streamline the data inputs.
  • Review all data for accuracy and insights before circulating to key stakeholders.
  • Support the sales teams in their review of the inventory and setting price recommendations.

• Monitor and evaluate pricing and revenue performance.
  • Develop and maintain reports which track key pricing metrics such as recommended versus implemented price and implemented versus achieved price.
  • Support the identification and development of additional key metrics.

• Support development & deployment of frameworks.
  • Brief teams on use of pricing calculator to ensure understanding and good adoption.
  • Support development of new frameworks such as Pricing Calculator Variations (e.g. B2C) and package frameworks

• Conduct analysis as required to support price recommendations such as benchmarking core products, Delegate Pricing analysis, etc...

Qualifications

• Proven experience (5+ years) as a Pricing Analyst or similar role in a complex and dynamic business environment.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in data analysis tools such as Excel, SQL, or other statistical software.
• Solid understanding of pricing strategies, market dynamics, and revenue management principles.
• Ability to interpret and manipulate large datasets, and derive actionable insights.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically and make data-driven decisions.

This posting will automatically expire on April 8, 2024.

Additional Information

Why work at Informa?

Employee experience is very important to us at Informa. On top of joining a supportive, diverse and ambitious team that welcomes all types of candidates. We are also flexible with different working patterns and prioritize promotions internally. Our benefits include:

• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely

• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks

• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too

• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves

• Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year

• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover

• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares

• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more

• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes

• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.  As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under federal, state or local law.

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