Tech Pricing Analyst

Do you want to advise and influence the pricing and marketing strategies of the world’s leading companies? Join SKIM in London as an Analyst in Tech Pricing & Proposition!

In a world of constant change, SKIM partners with leading companies looking to elevate their pricing, brand communication and innovation strategies with greater precision and certainty. By tailoring our expertise and analytical minds to the business challenges our clients face, we provide solutions that are reliable and relevant.

For 45 years, we have been trusted partners to the world’s largest CPG, technology and healthcare companies. We specialize in modelling and understanding people’s decision making in the areas of innovation, brand communications and pricing & revenue Management. In our vision, a combination of methodological robustness, marketing domain expertise and understanding the client’s business is key to building lasting strategic partnerships with our clients. With 11 offices in the US, Europe, Asia and South America we navigate – in close collaboration and with our clients – towards strategies that are right for them.

As evidenced by our #3 position in GRIT’s report of most innovative research agencies, we believe in continuously improving our solutions and expertise frameworks. But above all else, we believe in a culture where smart, ambitious and genuine people support each other, follow their dreams, balance priorities in life and bring everyone’s unique skills together in a collaborative global community.   

What is expected from you?

When you are at the beginning of your career, as a graduate or with a few years’ experience, your focus is on learning and developing yourself into an insights professional with a focus on pricing & propositions for tech companies.

As an Analyst in SKIM’s Tech Team, you will analyze market trends, competitive pricing strategies, and customer needs to develop optimal pricing models for technology products. You’ll work on validating product roadmaps, optimizing global portfolios, and refining pricing architectures while building technical expertise and project management skills. This role offers the opportunity to uncover consumer decision drivers and support major tech companies in optimizing their pricing and propositions. If you enjoy working with numbers and solving strategic challenges, this position will be a great fit.

As an analyst, you’ll learn and be responsible for the full process of a market research and consulting project:

• From solution brainstorming and writing proposals…
• to designing research projects (including questionnaire creation, programming and technical setup),
• executing data modelling and analysis,
• giving actionable recommendations and strategies to clients,
• and working with clients from day one!

You may have a more affinity for certain areas of research, such as Analytics, Modelling, Client Management, or advising clients. Therefore, your journey into Market Research and insights may differ from others because we emphasize each individual’s unique talents. But saying that, we do think it’s important to be exposed to all the different corners of Research before you decide which career paths excite you most. We expect you to learn, gain experience, maximize exposure to different challenges, build your technical skills, develop independence and project management excellence. 

What skills are important to succeed?

The key skills for a SKIMmer working in Pricing with Tech clients are:

• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills: Asking the right questions to get to the core of the why, consider the alternatives and think creatively to recommend the most impactful solution for our clients.
• Number savvy: With an eye for detail, you are passionate about working with numbers, and you are comfortable working with big datafiles in Excel (or eager to learn)
• Empathy: You can step into the consumer’s shoes and put them at the centre of your thinking. You actively listen and seek to understand their perspective and challenges.
• Collaboration: This is an essential part of SKIM’s and each SKIMmer’s success. You can work well in a team and build strong relationships and create meaningful connections with colleagues and clients. We expect you to support others, share knowledge, encourage each other’s success, build our SKIM community.
• Excellent communication skills: How else can we partner with clients and work as a team?

Technical skills such as R, SPSS, Excel are preferred. Besides that, we expect you to have a true interest in Pricing, Market Research, Consumer Behaviour, and/or Data Analytics.

SKIMmers have a strong academic background, though they have studied a vast variety of subjects including Marketing Science, Data Science, Consumer Behaviour, Econometrics, Applied Mathematics Economics & Marketing, Neuroscience, Business Analytics or other interesting studies with a research or statistical background.

Our offer

We offer a competitive salary & benefits package that includes the following:  

• Annual performance-based and profit-sharing bonus  
• A hybrid working environment  
• High value placed on taking initiative and ownership  
• Passionate, intelligent, and supporting colleagues  
• Open, communicative, and international work environment  
• Flat organizational structure 
• Focus on true work / life balance  
• Regular team outings and events  
• SKIM University with a broad selection of trainings  
• Company pension scheme 

At SKIM, we value diversity, equity and inclusion. With increased diversity comes greater variety of perspectives, ideas and creativity, and we foster an environment where everyone feels welcome and comfortable to be their authentic selves.  Therefore, we welcome diversity in applicants and base our hiring decisions regardless of age, race, color, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic characteristics, marital or military status.nder identity, disability, genetic characteristics, marital or military status.

Additional information

Thank you for taking the time to read the description of this role, and we look forward to reading your submission if this role sounds very exciting to you! We read each application carefully and will get back to you within two weeks.

Please note that only completed applications, consisting of a resume and cover letter, written in English, will be considered.