Assistant Pricing Manager

About the role;

As a Pricing Manager you manage a team of Pricing Analysts to together develop competitive, accurate price proposals for the sales team using pricing models, market intelligence, and additional inputs from relevant stakeholders.

In collaboration with Sales, Finance, Sourcing, Marketing, Supply Chain, and other functions, you drive the profitability for your business unit. Your leadership supports the growth of your team and those around you. An ideal candidate will enjoy forming relationships, analyzing complex pricing models, driving profitability and developing talents.

Key Responsibilities includes;

• Manage team, ensuring pricing expertise, process execution, and team member development
• Actively take part in the operational day-to-day pricing activities with the team. Support the members on complicated pricing flows / discussions with stakeholders and customers
• Collaborate with Sales leadership and Finance Business Partners to adapt pricing approach to dynamic business needs
• Create price quotations, support sales with customer negotiations and book contracts for business
• Take pricing ownership of assigned accounts in an independent and proactive way
• Lead all pricelist-related activities including, but not limited to managing trade terms, preparing the pricelist at a regional and local level, and conducting profitability analysis with Cluster MDs
• Understand how Pricing actions drive EBIT impacts and take decisions in the best interest of BC group
• Utilize relevant pricing models, understanding customer behaviors to drive accurate price setting
• Develop and manage effective analytical reporting tools to support the business unit and the organization’s needs
• Drive Self Service Pricing and other departmental initiatives with the team and the impacted stakeholders
• Understand the commodity market fundamentals and gather in-depth knowledge on the chocolate and cocoa manufacturing process in order to improve the pricing process
• Review business performance with your finance counterparts and Managing Directors. Discuss and apply corrective actions in Pricing approach
• Assist management with training and onboarding of new team members
• Translate global or regional pricing principles / initiatives into concrete actions for your team
• Continuous evaluation of our processes and recommend improvements to management

Scope

• Focus on regional pricelist
• Country scope to be determined under region AMEA (Asia, Middle East, and Africa)

About you;

•       Bachelor’s Degree in Finance / Accounting / Mathematics / Statistics or a similar field
•  Minimum At least 7 years of professional working experience in a multinational environment with regional exposure
•  Experience in financial analysis, product costing or business controlling. Experience in advance profit margin analysis and evaluation would be a plus
•  Able to establish good relationships with a diverse regional team
•  Able to communicate effectively in English both written and verbal
•  Experience in people management is desirable
•  The candidate is expected to be analytical, proactive, self-driven and possess excellent communication and problem solving skills
•  Fluent in English (written and spoken)
•  Travel requirements: Less than 10%
•  May have to work on some public holidays to support regional coverage Fluency in an additional Asian language is a plus