Pricing Analyst

Your career begins at Cone Drive Operations, a Timken company!  Cone Drive is located in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan and boasts 100 years of success in the gearing industry.  If you're ready for a challenging career that provides you with the ability to advance personally and professionally, look to Cone Drive.  Our employees make the world more productive by improving the efficiency and reliability of the machinery that keeps industry in motion.

The Pricing Analyst drives gross margin performance by establishing, maintaining & managing the price for individual custom product inquiries (RFQ’s) and orders (PO’s).  The Pricing Analyst also manages & maintains standard pricing sheets for all product offerings.

• Responsible to determine, maintain and manage pricing on all custom product quotes and orders.
• Drives gross margin performance.
• Creates margin models/ ad hoc reporting for management review. 
• Maintains price lists and discount mutiplyers
• Identifies &/or recommends cost savings ideas and drive company cost reductions initiatives
• Works with application engineering, sales, and information technology teams to streamline & automate pricing process.
• Cost accounting support; material and outside service reviews, routing & structure analysis

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Engineering or related field; MBA Preferred
• 7-10 years’ customer support experience in a manufacturing environment; familiarity with industrial gear market and range of market products
• Must have good computer skills in Microsoft applications. XA experience a plus.  
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; good organizational skills.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to summarize to executive leadership in order to drive action within the business.

This position may require access to United States export controlled technical data (“CTD”) and hardware under the Departments of US State (ITAR) and/or Commerce (EAR).  Eligible candidates are; US Citizens, Green Card holders, Asylees or others eligible to receive US export license authorizations. Candidate must be authorized to work in the US.
 

All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.