Pricing & Yield Sr. Analyst - Oakland, CA Pandora Media

Pricing & Yield Sr. Analyst - Oakland, CA
Pandora is looking for an Pricing & Yield Sr. Analyst to join the growing Pricing & Yield Management team in Oakland, CA. This role will support the Advertising Sales organization by managing inventory and pricing controls across Pandora's diverse ad platforms.
Job Responsibilities:

• Drive application of quantitative analysis to inform ongoing inventory and pricing decisions
• Manage daily inventory and pricing requests from Sales Organization
• Collaborate with cross functional groups including Ad Ops, Product, Ad Solutions, Sales and Finance to identify pricing and revenue opportunities
• Employ in-depth understanding of ad functionality, availability/supply and demand, and delivery mechanism to influence market rate card and pricing of custom ad packages
• Integrate pricing models and inventory segmentation
• Evaluate profitability and conduct cost/benefit analysis of advertising deals and business partnerships
• Analyze sales behavior to identify trends and optimize pricing
• Develop quantitative analysis, ad hoc reports, models, to support decision making
• Forecast inventory availability, sell-through, employing statistical analysis and modeling when needed
• Maintain reporting, forecasting models, dashboards, etc related to all ad sales revenue channels

Requirements:

• Education: BA/BS in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field
• At least 2 years professional experience in an analytics role with experience in inventory management a plus
• Experience with online advertising platforms (Doubleclick (DFP), Atlas, etc)
• Experience with digital advertising and online publishers with multiple sales channels a plus
• Knowledge of Salesforce, Operative Order Management, SAS or other business analytics software preferred
• Power user of excel (VBA), Access, Microsoft Office suite
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL query languages
• Familiarity with no-SQL architectures (Hadoop) a plus
• Excellent time management and attention to detail
• Comfortable in fast-paced and changing environment
• Excellent written and communication skills

Location:	Oakland, CA United States