Position Summary:
This role partners with sales and operations leaders to deliver pricing insights that support company objectives. Key responsibilities include analyzing pricing performance, developing recommendations that support revenue and profit goals, and translating findings into clear, actionable guidance for business leaders.
Insights will be shared with field leadership through collaborative discussions, persuasive presentations, and easy-to-understand analytics that help drive informed decision-making. Additionally, this role will be responsible for maintaining training documentation, SOPs and providing mentorship to Analysts within the group.
Role Focus: This role is designed for a financially astute professional who demonstrates strong judgment, ownership, and influence. The Senior Business Analyst serves as a trusted advisor by translating complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights. This role will provide analytical leadership to the Pricing team in support of Contract business operations.
Business Impact: This position provides analytical leadership to the Pricing team in support of the Contract product lines, helping drive performance, accountability, and long-term value creation.
Candidate Profile: We are seeking an associate with strong analytical capabilities, clear communication skills, and a collaborative approach to problem solving.
Key Strengths: Successful candidates are highly organized, detail-oriented, and naturally curious. They take the time to understand how the business operates and use that knowledge to develop practical, data-driven insights.
Collaboration and Influence: This individual works effectively across teams, presents complex information clearly and confidently, and takes initiative to identify improvement opportunities and help drive solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with sales, marketing, finance, product development, and field leadership to align pricing strategies with business objectives.
- Pricing Analysis and Performance: Monitor, analyze, and explain key pricing and operational performance indicators to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Models and Process Improvement: Maintain pricing models, troubleshoot issues, and develop improvement methodologies and best practices where applicable.
- Communication and Influence: Present pricing recommendations, results, and opportunities to Pricing Department leadership, cross-functional pricing leaders, field leadership, and other business stakeholders through clear analytics and persuasive presentations.
- Special Projects: Lead ad hoc analyses and special projects that require strong pricing knowledge, analytical rigor, and cross-functional collaboration.
Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in business, Sales Management, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline required.
MBA or equivalent master’s degree preferred.
Experience:
Minimum of 7 years of experience in data or business analytics, sales data management, or related roles supporting profit improvement initiatives.
Progressive experience conducting data, pricing, and financial analysis to support business decision-making.
Experience synthesizing information from multiple sources and translating analysis into actionable, supportable recommendations.
Technical and Communication Skills:
Proficiency with business intelligence and data visualization tools such as Power BI, Qlik, or Tableau.
Strong working knowledge of financial statements, including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements.
Experience working with large datasets using SQL, Power Query, or similar data-manipulation tools.
Ability to develop persuasive verbal and written presentations for business leaders.
Ability to clearly present analytical findings, pricing insights, and recommendations to support decision-making.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business, Sales Management, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in data or business analytics, sales data management, or related profit improvement roles
- Progressive experience conducting data, pricing, and financial analysis for business decision-making
- Experience synthesizing information from multiple sources into actionable recommendations
- Proficiency with business intelligence and data visualization tools such as Power BI, Qlik, or Tableau
- Strong working knowledge of financial statements, including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements
- Experience working with large datasets using SQL, Power Query, or similar data-manipulation tools
- Ability to develop persuasive verbal and written presentations for business leaders
- MBA or equivalent master's degree
Penske Logistics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement options include a 401(k) and, in some driver roles, a 100% company‑funded pension that provides strong long‑term value. These retirement features are described as rare and valuable within certain assignments.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave are part of the standard package, with some roles offering PTO starting on day one. Time‑off provisions are consistently presented alongside core benefits.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and hearing coverage are complemented by telemedicine, mental‑health support, and disability options. FSAs/HSAs and wellness resources contribute to broad healthcare coverage.
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What We Do
Penske Logistics is a Penske Transportation Solutions company. We provide supply chain management and logistics solutions to leading brands around the world. Penske Logistics delivers value through its design, planning and execution in transportation, warehousing, freight management, and dry-van truckload services. Penske offers customized supply chain and logistics solutions including: Dedicated Contract Carriage; Distribution Center Management; Freight Management; Freight Brokerage; Transportation Management Solutions (TMS); Lead Logistics Provider (LLP), Control Tower and 4PL Solutions. We serve a variety of industries including: automotive; food, beverage, grocery, wine and spirits; cold chain; convenience and drug stores; quick service restaurants (QSRs); retail; big box retailers; building and construction products; CPG; healthcare; industrial manufacturing; consumer appliances and consumer electronics; and many others.









