Pricing Data Scientist

**Pricing Data Scientist
- Santa Ana, Costa Rica**

Are you energized by analyzing data? Are you ready to join an advanced team in a global company that customers depend on to prevent fraudulent transactions? Then it’s time to join Western Union as our next Pricing Data Scientist.

**Western Union powers your pursuit.**

This role will sit in the Global Pricing team and will focus on driving and supporting pricing-specific initiatives at Western Union by using Data Science techniques.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Use data modeling to measure customer price sensitivity, predict customer behavior & conversion and optimize prices to achieve business financial and customer relationship objectives.
- Work with a team of data scientists and other leaders to develop models that deliver business results at scale.
- Conduct ad-hoc/exploratory analysis and provide accurate results in response to internal and external requests.
- Create presentations that describe model results and recommendation to senior executives and other key stakeholders.
- Translate business problems into analytical frameworks and models.
- Partner with business, technology & pricing strategy experts to ensure the models developed accurately represent the business environment and that model results are actionable.
- Actively contribute to team huddles and strategy sessions. Champion company purpose and values, as well as policies/procedures.
- Develop champion/challenger test practices, including post-implementation and monitoring to results.
- Most of time will be spent working on solutions to critical problems, querying databases, and performing various analytic/statistical techniques.

**Role Requirements**
- Data Scientist degree or in a similar field such as Economics, Statistics, or Math.
- 3-4 years of experience in Data Analytics or quantitative engineering field.
- It’s required to have a working knowledge of statistical analysis tools like R, SQL, and Python.
- Pricing, Revenue Management, or Financial Services experience is a plus.
- Experience and knowledge using Power BI will help you to outstand in this role.
- High English proficiency C1+ to communicate across a broad spectrum of stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication skills to convey pricing insights.
- Ability to analyze problems and produce a justification to enhance decisions.

**We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.**

Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

**Benefits**

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few

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