About WSA

WS Audiology combines over 140 years of experience in pioneering better solutions to help people with hearing loss. With a passion for impact, our 12.000 employees are committed to achieving our purpose: wonderful sound for all. With brands like Signia, Widex, Audio Service, Rexton, Vibe, HearUSA and Bloom and with diverse assets across wholesale, retail, online, managed care and diagnostic solutions, we are active in over 125 markets. Going beyond together, we achieve annual revenues of around EUR 2 billion.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develops category reporting and analysis, financial modeling and forecasting of mix and ASP
• Analyzes and proposes pricing and promotional offer strategies for both private pay and managed care
• Analyzes and proposes strategies for same day fit including auto-replenishment and optimization of center clusters that align to the overall product strategy
• Co-designs and analyzes new programs to test and launch such as subscription model, loyalty programs, service bundles

REQUIREMENTS:

• Merchandising experience - understanding of retail merchandising basics (i.e., category management), and merchandising organizational structures and processes
• Retail experience - understanding of pricing, offer and assortment analytics;
• Managed Care experience - understanding of the managed care landscape and impact on retail category management
• Advanced analytical capability and experience - ability to draw insights and actions from data
• Planning experience - strategic thinking, forward looking, time-cognizant
• Strategy & analytics experience on retail category side, with a focus on product offerings, pricing, and promotion
• Ability to link category leadership strategies to customer strategies
• Proven track record for delivering sustainable results
• Drives visibility to business performance by defining KPIs, and how they will be measured and monitored for broad utilization across large groups of stakeholders
• Provides data-driven insights and analysis to influence the development and deployment of business strategies to deliver results
• Ability to communicate effectively and succinctly, both verbally and in writing via Microsoft PowerPoint
• 10+ Years of retail product related experience
• MBA or advanced training in Finance, Economics, Mathematics and/or other quantitative analytical degree a plus
• Supervisory experience