Parts Pricing and Development Specialist

At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work. The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday. However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement.

Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home 2 days per week, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

Role:

The Parts Pricing & Development Specialist plays an important role in driving growth and profitability in our Parts business (Car, Motorcycle, ATV, Marine and Power Products).

This role will contribute to Honda’s commercial success by developing innovative pricing strategies, tools, and initiatives that align with customer and market trends. The role holder will collaborate with various teams, including Service Operations, Sales Divisions, Commercial Field teams, as well as our European counterparts.

Through strategic pricing, process improvement, performance analysis, and cross-functional collaboration, the role holder will contribute to the achievement of our business objectives. The role holder will make a meaningful impact on our Parts business, ensuring our continued competitiveness and sustainable growth.

Main Responsibilities:

• Elevate the commercial performance of the UK Aftersales Parts business.
• Conduct pricing elasticity analysis using customer and market data to optimize price points for each division and derive meaningful insights to make informed pricing decisions.
• Develop and enhance pricing processes, internally and externally, to effectively implement business-specific pricing strategies including promotional campaigns.
• Continuously analyse key performance indicators such as Volume, Turnover and Profit to identify growth and margin optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with Sales divisions and logistic divisions to support the successful launch of new models and align pricing strategies from an Aftersales perspective.
• Represent the department at internal and external meetings in the UK and Europe as required.

Qualifications, skills and experience:
Required

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Flexible and adaptable approach to work, balancing priorities and working to tight deadlines.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with a high level of numeracy and an inquisitive, analytical nature.
• Excellent attention to detail with proven organisational skills.
• Ability to see projects through from beginning to end, in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Strong team player with the confidence to build relationships at all levels.
• Strong problem-solving skills to identify issues, evaluate alternatives, and implement effective solutions in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• The ability to adapt to changing market conditions, customer demands, and organizational priorities.
• Proficiency in analysing large datasets, utilizing pricing tools, and deriving actionable insights to drive pricing decisions and optimize performance.

Desirable

• Experience within the automotive industry and an understanding of the associated business environment.
• Experience of data visualisation and analysis tools such as Power Bi, Tableau, SQL, Python, R.
• Previous experience with pricing elasticity and price setting.

Honda is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in the workplace for all employees, temporary workers, contractors, applicants and visitors. Honda also encourages respect for the individual differences and talents of others while making full use of one's own abilities, based on Honda's philosophy of respect for the individual.

At Honda, we value and celebrate diversity and are committed to being a fair, non-discriminatory company that promotes and welcomes the uniqueness and differences of people around the world. We recognise that a diverse workforce allows for different ideas and perspectives, and we encourage everyone to share them. We strive to foster a culture of belonging that is consistent with Honda's core values and lived out in the way we work and respect each other. For us at Honda, diversifying our workforce means increasing its overall strength by providing people with equal opportunities - regardless of personal characteristics or previous careers.

This commitment flows directly from the Honda philosophy and the belief that we are all working towards a common goal. Honda recruits, hires, trains and promotes the most qualified/experienced individuals at all levels without regard to race, origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.