From Pricing Scientist to VP in Pricing with Stephane Bratu

<p><strong>Why you have to check out today’s podcast:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn to be directionally correct in your pricing decisions </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find out the important characteristics required to be a pricing expert </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn how to be creative and do different things in Pricing to know what works and what doesn’t</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Stephane Bratu</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">leads the pricing and marketing analytics team for the e-commerce division of one of the largest distributors in the world. He developed advanced decision support systems to improve business performance and spearheaded many engagements to Fortune 500 clients in the transportation, manufacturing, distribution, and retail industries. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He also developed analytics insights to help clients improve their business decisions., as well as conducted opportunity assessments, pre-sale analysis, solution design, and implementations using advanced machine learning and optimization modeling. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, Stephane talks about the important characteristics of a pricing person, why he has to go beyond the analytics side of things, get expertise in team management, and be knowledgeable to different pricing models in order to contribute to successful pricing decisions.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>“There is no silver bullet in pricing. Otherwise, we would all know it.”</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">  </span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Stephane Bratu</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>Topics Covered:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">01:10 - What led to his Pricing career </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">02:15 - What makes him stick with Pricing <