Analytics Manager – Pricing and Inventory

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THE OPPORTUNITY: ANALYTICS MANAGER, PRICING & ANALYTICS The Pricing and Inventory Analytics Manager will be responsible for creating and tracking analytics to develop key strategies in product, inventory, merchandising, pricing, forecasting customer demand, purchasing behaviors and lifetime value to improve business performance. Specifically… Analyze inventory coverage from various sources. Identify and forecast inventory opportunities from primary partners. Work with the Sales team to structure inventory acquisition details. Maintain and execute financial plans for each merchandise category. Utilize historical trends to forecast monthly and annual KPIs. Determine the optimal inventory sales priorities to optimize sales and margin by category and by inventory source. Identify inventory to be promoted in marketing and on our website. Manage regular pricing execution and analytics. Improve pricing models and automation to maximize revenues and margins. Regularly identify promotional opportunities. Analyze promotional pricing impact. Develop pricing performance monitoring reports. REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS/PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES EDUCATION: BA/BS in mathematics, economics or a suitable quantitative discipline. Advanced degree is a plus. EXPERIENCE: 5+ years of relevant experience in business modeling and management, with extensive experience in quantitative analytical model development and implementation. Experience with statistical language (SAS, R, SPSS). Strong MS Excel skills, statistical software exposure, SQL experience is required (SQL Server preferred, but Oracle and MySQL are OK). Big data infrastructure and eCommerce experience a plus. Excellent verbal and written communicator able to work effectively across the organization. Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment. Possess distinctive problem solving, organizational and analytical skills. A self-starter who takes initiative and possess an entrepreneurial spirit. Smart and driven individual that knows what needs to be done and operates with a sense of urgency, focus and discipline. Able to work well with ambiguity and comfortable dealing with changes and juggling competing priorities. Doesn’t understand 9 to 5, passionate about technology and very results oriented. WHY SCOREBIG? Be a part of a fun, fast-paced entrepreneurial team in a Company changing an entire industry. Work with incredibly smart, driven, passionate people in building a world-class, fast-growing enterprise. ScoreBig offers competitive salaries, benefits and equity/options at a very promising later-stage startup. Fun office environment, company parties/happy-hours, fully stocked kitchen and perks to live events! THE COMPANY: SCOREBIG, INC. Founded in 2009, ScoreBig is the leading eCommerce marketplace for live event tickets. Built on an innovative pricing model and proprietary pricing engine, ScoreBig allows fans to purchase live event tickets at below box office prices, by naming the price they are willing to pay for tickets. The Company offers fans savings of up to 60% off of box office prices for thousands of events nationwide. ScoreBig is the first and only sales channel available for the $40 billion ticket industry, allowing sports, arts, music and theater organizations to move unsold tickets without the price and brand degradation inherent in traditional “discounting”. The Company has built a strong foundation of primary partnerships across many of the largest sports, music and theater properties in the U.S. and maintains direct relationships with over 100 of the leading ticket brokers, ensuring expansive coverage of the live entertainment market. ScoreBig has 95% coverage of all major US Professional sports - MLB, NBA, NHL and NFL. ScoreBig is rapidly growing and looking for sharp, dedicated and self-motivated people to help take the Company to the next level. Highlights: ScoreBig was recently recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Most Promising Companies. Offers over 1 million live event tickets for sale across the U.S. Significant funding from leading venture capital firms Bain Capital Ventures & U.S. Venture Partners, along with other industry veterans. Led by a proven executive team with deep experience in sports, entertainment, ticketing, internet and technology businesses and a world-class advisory board. See additional press here.