Strategy Analyst; REMOTE

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This role follows a hybrid onboarding approach before transitioning to a primarily remote schedule. During the first 3–6 months, candidates are expected to work on‑site in Boston one day per week to support training, collaboration, and team integration. After onboarding is complete, the position becomes fully remote (work from home), with a monthly in‑person team meeting in Boston to stay connected and aligned.

The Strategy Analyst is an individual contributor role responsible for supporting pricing strategy, commercial analysis, and business insight generation across Cengage Group. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Strategy & Pricing, this role will help drive foundational pricing analysis, competitive comparable and insights, and analytical support for strategic commercial initiatives across the business.

This role sits within the Commercial Strategy & Analytics team and is designed for candidates with strong analytical proficiency, intellectual curiosity, and an interest in commercial strategy, pricing, and data‑driven problem solving. The role will partner closely with cross‑functional business stakeholders to support analyses that influence pricing decisions, business prioritization, and growth initiatives.

This role is ideal for analyst‑level candidates with the skills for working with data, and an eagerness to tackle strategic problem solving and contribute to meaningful commercial initiatives in a fast‑paced and collaborative environment.

• Develop analyses and recommendations related to pricing optimization, commercial simplification, whitespace opportunities, and market positioning.
• Support execution of pricing strategy initiatives through competitive price tracking, market monitoring, pricing diagnostics, and pricing data maintenance activities.
• Conduct competitive research and pricing analyses across Higher Education, Workforce Skills, Milady, Gale, ELL, and other Cengage businesses to identify pricing trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Support recurring and ad‑hoc analytical requests tied to strategic business questions, leadership reviews, and commercial initiatives.
• Gather, clean, organize, and analyze data from multiple sources to support insight generation and business decision‑making.
• Partner with Commercial Strategy, Pricing Strategy, Enterprise Analytics, and Finance teams to help translate data into actionable business insights.
• Build and maintain analytical models, trackers, summaries, and presentations used to support pricing and commercial strategy decisions.
• Assist in identifying key business drivers, market trends, customer behaviors, and commercial performance patterns across Cengage businesses.
• Help support strategic analyses related to market opportunity, portfolio performance, customer adoption, and commercial effectiveness.
• Develop proficiency with analytical and reporting tools such as Excel, SQL, Snowflake, Power BI, and other business intelligence technologies.
• Contribute to executive‑ready presentations and business reviews by helping synthesize findings into clear summaries, charts, and recommendations.
• Support broader strategic and transformation projects as needed, including…