Revenue Management and Pricing Section

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PROS

 

Title: Manager/Director of Pricing Science

 

About PROS

 

PROS (Pricing Revenue Optimization Systems), a recognized leader in pricing and revenue optimization theory, science, and application development, continues to expand its Pricing Optimization division as a result of demand for our products and services. Applicants with strong analytical skills and management experience are sought to help shape the future of pricing and revenue optimization for new and existing industry verticals.

 

Job Description

 

As a Manager/Director, you will lead a team to design and support tools for advanced pricing analytics and price recommendation processes embedded in PROS products. Your responsibilities include leading innovation projects, managing customer relationships, supporting implementation efforts, participating in sales activities and communicating the value of pricing science to executives. PROS is looking for candidates that are team players with a firm grasp of the technical aspects as well as a strong aptitude towards understanding the business aspects of our customers. Preferred candidates must be creative, highly motivated, well grounded in quantitative disciplines, success oriented, and work well in a team environment.

 

The position requires:

  • Demonstrated expertise in operations research, quantitative economics, econometrics, statistics, applied mathematics or a related discipline, with over 5 years experience in pricing, revenue management or similar field
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Traveling about 5-7 days a month
  • Masters Degree or PhD

Other desired qualifications:

  • Direct experience in pricing or revenue management science
  • Management experience
  • Deep expertise in the design and testing of mathematical algorithms

We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits, incentive programs, a 401k plan, and the opportunity to work with the most talented people in the industry. We place great emphasis on providing the opportunity for personal and professional growth.

 

About PROS

 

PROS Holdings, Inc. is the leading provider of pricing and revenue optimization software products, specializing in price analytics, price execution, and price optimization. By using PROS software products, companies gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify pricing-based profit leaks, optimize their pricing decision making and improve their business processes and financial performance. PROS software products implement advanced pricing science, which includes operations research, forecasting and statistics. PROS high performance software architecture supports real-time high volume transaction processing and allows PROS to handle the processing and database requirements of the most sophisticated and largest customers, including customers with hundreds of simultaneous users and sub-second electronic transactions. PROS provides professional services to configure its software products to meet the specific pricing needs of each customer. PROS has implemented over 250 solutions across a range of industries in more than 40 countries.

 

Founded in 1985, PROS is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Today, PROS has over 350 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and over 25 with Ph.D.s. To learn more about PROS, please visit www.prospricing.com.

 

Please submit your resume to Susan King in the Human Resources Department sking@prospricing.com

 

Please reference to Director of Pricing Science posting in the subject line.

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  • INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Meeting, June 6-7, 2013, Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.

        Chairs: Laurie Garrow and Necati Tereyagoglu

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