Description:
As a Pricing Manager with Givaudan, you will Implement and manage pricing strategy for Taste & Wellbeing division in Oceania to ensure global
pricing consistency and drive profitable growth according to the company's business objectives. In this exciting role you also will:
Manage constructive and proactive partnership with all key stakeholders in the pricing process
- Business partner with Oceania Commercial Director and others from Sales, Flavour Creation and Application (FC&A), Procurement,Operations, Marketing, Controlling / Finance to drive profitable growth
- Provide pricing expertise / advice to Sales and other functions as the main point of contact for pricing
- Support APAC Pricing Head / Oceania Commercial Director on pricing / commercial requests
- Establish and review Pricing and Commercial KPIs and provide relevant reports in a timely manner
Accountable for timely and robust price setting and maintenance
- Lead pricing activities such as providing price recommendations to Sales / distributors and target costs to FC&A in a timely / robust manner, maintaining price lists and addressing price discrepancies / issues
- Manage Delegation of Authority (DoA) process including discount and rebate requests supported by high quality, holistic business case and recommendations in line with APAC Regional Pricing Policy
- Support or lead price negotiations with customers, with supporting documents and during meetings
Executional excellence in monitoring, protecting and improving gross margin
- Lead regular review of pricing and profitability for margin protection / improvement
- Implement pricing actions / margin recovery plans with support from Sales, FC& A and other functions
- Promote, leverage pricing tools and best practices to defend and grow our business profitably
Guarantee compliance with pricing policies and guidelines
- Ensure compliance to APAC Regional Pricing Policy and guidelines
- Accountable for data maintenance and quality in all pricing processes and systems
- Roll out regional / global projects and initiatives including process improvements
- Participate / contribute to APAC Pricing Team meetings and discussions with colleagues outside APAC
- Coordinate prices for regional / global accounts as assigned by the APAC Regional Pricing Head