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Where a pricing specialist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a pricing specialist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Pricing specialists analyse production prices, market trends and competitors in order to establish the right price, taking brand and marketing concepts into consideration.

Also known as assistant pricing specialist, retail pricing analyst, price checker, graduate supermarket pricing specialist, commercial product price analyst, price clerk, price marker, price point analyst, discount supermarket pricing specialist, price analyst, senior pricing specialist, graduate trainee pricing specialist.

Professionals 30 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: wholesale merchant in perfume and cosmetics, 32%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
wholesale merchant in perfume… 32% covered wholesale merchant in agricul… 32% covered wholesale merchant in beverag… 32% covered wholesale merchant in live an… 32% covered wholesale merchant in tobacco… 32% covered pricing specialist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from pricing specialist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a pricing specialist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A pricing specialist needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • identify pricing opportunities management skills
  • maintain pricing database information skills
  • perform financial analysis on price strategies information skills
  • make price recommendations information skills
  • prepare cost-plus pricing models information skills
  • data mining methods information and communication technologies (icts)
  • communicate price changes communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage yield management skills
  • manage profitability management skills
  • carry out statistical forecasts information skills
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Pricing specialist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a pricing specialist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.