Pricing Manager - FMCG/F&B

I am looking for "Pricing Manager" with one of the leading company in flavor and fragrance industry.

- Experience of 6-12 years in industry pricing or finance, account management or sales coordination role in F&B industry or experience in Flavour industry in Commercial or FC&A area..

- Former Pricing experience is a must-have if market permits.

- Preferably some Experience in Manufacturing – ideally Flavor, Chemical or Pharma

- Preferably previous customer interaction exeprience

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

- Market knowledge (customers, segments, market practices) (on the job learning)

- Understanding of pricing mechanisms including profitability

- Basic process and project management skills

- Very strong analytical / numerical skills

- Proficient in communicating in English & local language

- Proven ability to deal with complex IT systems

- Proficient in MS Excel and MS Office

- Preferably previous SAP experience

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES

- Customer Focus

- Business Acumen

- Decision Quality

- Drive for Results

- Problem Solving

- Timely Decision Making

- Negotiating

- Peer Relationships

- Process Management

- Managerial Courage

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

- Manages constructive and proactive partnership with all key market stakeholders in the pricing process with ‘Pricing for Profitable Win Approach’

- Responsible for timely and quality Price Setting and Maintenance

- On going pricing activities such as computing standard pricing of flavour products, maintaining price lists, providing target costs and price monitoring processes

- Provide pricing recommendations for briefs to Sales groups with supporting analysis, coordinate pricing process for identified key accounts and provide price negotiations support

- Manage DOA process

- Monitor, protect and improve Gross Margin

- Define action recommendations to avoid gross margin erosion

- Analyze regularly gross margin and identify product cost issues and address these with Procurement, Operations, Finance & Technical groups as appropriate

- Manage annual price increases and adjustments for significant raw material impact, manufacturing cost changes or margin improvement on existing products

- Support Customer service excellence on pricing/order issues

- Guarantee Compliance with the Pricing Policies and Guidelines

- Support definition, documentation, implementation and maintenance of pricing related guidelines and principles

- Ensure Data maintenance and quality in all Pricing processes and systems

- Drives development of market pricing strategy in collaboration with the Marketing

- Supports Regional Pricing head in all requests / initiatives relative to the market, and ensures roll out of the regional /global projects and process improvement initiatives in their market

Interested candidates please share your updated resume in .doc format at anshu@peoplesense.in with below details.

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Anshu Chhangani
anshu@peoplesense.in
Consultant
PeopleSense Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd