Pricing Senior Manager

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

At Verizon, we believe that everyone deserves access to seamless, reliable, and affordable wireless solutions that enhance their day-to-day lives. By joining our team, you'll play a pivotal role in this mission, delivering innovative, customer-focused solutions that open up a world of possibilities. We're not just in the business of technology; we're in the business of connecting people, empowering them to explore, share, and engage with the world around them in ways they never thought possible.

The Value Organization: Powering Connections with Purpose

Verizon's Value brands offer a comprehensive portfolio of no-contract, prepaid wireless solutions, all powered by Verizon's leading nationwide 5G and 4G LTE network.

Designed to fit the varied needs of the value consumer, our diverse brand offerings include:

• Straight Talk: Available exclusively through Walmart, Straight Talk offers reliable value, helping hard-working customers save money and live better. Benefits include Walmart+ membership and home internet options.

• Total Wireless: Total Wireless is the local neighborhood brand with urban stores across the country. The brand offers the power of the Verizon network at an outstanding value, with a 5 year price guarantee on select plans.

• Visible: Available online, Visible is the brand that savvy consumers know to go to for a great value. Visible believes you shouldn't have to join a family plan to save on wireless, and offers a simple streamlined online-first way to buy a wireless plan.

• Simple Mobile: Simple Mobile empowers customers to feel at home wherever they are, acting as a neighborhood catalyst through its service. It provides affordable, flexible plans with international calling and operates on Verizon's reliable network.

• Tracfone: For individuals who see tech as a tool, not a way of life, Tracfone is the reliable, affordable option. For over 25 years, Tracfone has focused on providing high-quality wireless to those overlooked by conventional providers due to affordability or credit history, emphasizing "No Bills, No Contracts, No Surprises".

• Verizon Prepaid: Leveraging the strong Verizon brand recognition, Verizon Prepaid is ideal for those who want service directly from Verizon without a postpaid commitment or credit checks, offering flexibility and access to the leading 5G and 4G LTE network.

• Walmart Family Mobile: As another essential tool in busy people's utility belt, Walmart Family Mobile exists to empower heroic parents to stay ahead of their family's every need. It offers affordable, no-contract plans with family discounts and supports programs like Lifeline.

• SafeLink Wireless: SafeLink believes that in today's digital-first society, connectivity is a new basic need and a right for every person. Without judgment, SafeLink fulfills our obligation to connect the disconnected through government subsidies and the Lifeline program, utilizing Verizon's nationwide network.

Your Role in Our Mission

Join a team driven by Integrity, Respect, Performance Excellence, Accountability, and Social Responsibility. We foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, where your contributions directly impact millions of lives by delivering essential, high-quality wireless services. We are seeking individuals who are passionate about value, dedicated to customer success, and eager to contribute to a dynamic environment that champions accessibility and connectivity for all.

As Pricing Senior Manager, you will be responsible for evaluating promotions, value prop refreshes, new products, and other initiatives for financial feasibility, as well as providing strategic insight and partnership to our brand and Finance stakeholders. This role is impactful and highly cross-functional, necessitating a deep understanding of multiple brands and teams across the business.

In this position, you will be accountable for having an in-depth understanding of our Value brands and their ongoing initiatives, as well as translating these initiatives into assumptions and complex pricing scenario models. Assumptions will be built by using market research (CMI), historical analysis, business acumen, and marketing acumen, and may include key KPIs such as churn improvement, base migrations/steps, acquisition volume lift, acquisition plan mix, base plan mix, ARPU, and more. As a Pricing Sr Mgr, you will also be accountable for translating the outputs from these models into strategic recommendations and presentations for leadership. You will work closely with the Value brand leads, Finance, and our cross-functional teams across Base Management, Sales, Marketing, and Execution to understand initiatives' impact and communicate assumptions. This role requires excellent analytical skills, presentation skills, experience with data strategy, influencing without authority, high-caliber communication skills and strong business acumen.

• In-depth analysis of business performance, specific to new customer acquisition, customer retention, pricing and base ARPU, product analytics and overall profitability. Includes utilizing multiple databases and data sources to gather necessary insights.

• Intense collaboration with brand leads across Commercial, Customer Marketing, Finance and Sales to compile various, and sometimes conflicting data, into high-confidence hypotheses that can be used for corrective action plans. Also involves working with above stakeholders on developing assumptions and modeling related to new product and promotional business cases.

• Partnering with other functions such as Value Business Strategy, FP&A and Market Insights to provide a holistic interpretation of disparate data.

• Collaborating closely with Commercial leads to develop expert understanding of business drivers and guide them in interpreting insights appropriately.

• Serving as Commercial/Brand Subject Matter Expert and point person for all data inquiries and requests.

• Build complex pricing scenario models that can integrate multiple assumption sets and deliver key outputs such as: change in volume, churn, ARPU, revenue. Models will include complex churn cohort modeling.

• Build assumption sets using data analysis, historical trends, marketing acumen, and market research (CMI). These pricing assumptions often merge financial acumen, operational insights, and a deep understanding of customer experience in order to deliver high-value, insightful assumptions.

• Deliver quick financial feasibility checks using break even analysis and LTV calculations.

• Manage timeline and deliverable expectations upstream and downstream; this role's work will impact many teams' timelines.

• Present initiatives, model outputs, and strategic recommendations at an appropriate level of detail for decision making to stakeholders and executive leadership.

In this role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days (in-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday).

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.

• Experience in either pricing and/or financial analysis and planning.

• Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel).

• Experience in telecom industry.

• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• MBA.

• 10 or more years of relevant experience.

• Experience in data analysis (SQL).

• Experience with business intelligence (Tableau, Lookr, ThoughtSpot).

• Experience in product management.

• Willing to learn different tools and data sources.

• Passion for data analysis and transforming analysis into insights and actions.

• Experience influencing cross-functional teams in a matrix environment.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with experience regularly presenting to executive audiences.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we've got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.