Pricing Specialist

Job Description:

Do you like to be in the centre between procurement and sales from the pricing strategy perspective? Are you ready for the next step in your career and like tocontribute to a company that has ‘Feeding the Future’ as its purpose? Then this is the job for you!

What are you going to do?
The pricing team will coordinate the periodical costing and pricing process in close coordination with the commercial departments, Purchase department, formulation, customer care and business controlling.

He- or she is responsible for maintaining the correct prices, including charges, in our ERP system, as well as ensuring that prices are being send timely to our customers. The pricing process leads to optimisation of the profit of Trouw Nutrition Benelux in line with the long-term strategy of the company.

The Pricing Specialist reports to the Manager Pricing and works in a team of six, where two colleagues are based in the offices in Gent and four in the Netherlands offices. He or she is part of the Benelux Organization. Basically, divided in two locations (offices and factory’s): one in Gent and one in Putten.

What are your key accountabilities?

Process and communication :

• Responsible for the preparing and maintaining the raw material price lists in the ERP environment and for putting the sales prices correctly and timely in the system.

• Responsible for accurate price calculations for sister companies and third-party customers following the standard calculation, responsible for adding charges and additions in the system.

• Ensuring timely price setting for new or changed items daily. Safeguarding the raw material prices and currency risks for sales contracts with a solid sales price and volume. Coordinating the communication between Pricing, Customer Care and Sales when a customer has reached the maximum contract volume.

• Communicating of actual market information/developments to the commercial organisation and customers through market reports.

• Ensuring order monitoring to safeguard the balance between purchased and sold positions.

Pricing and strategy :

• Optimising the sales prices (in cooperation with commercial management and pricing team), advising the colleagues involved about market developments and competitive behaviour and our reaction /strategy to these developments.

• Developing, optimising, and maintaining the pricing models of the product groups (margin matrix) as well as external pricing models.

• In collaboration with the Purchase Department following up on the raw material market developments.

• Calculating of pricing scenarios considering recipes, production costs and supply chain costs.

• Preparing offers in close cooperation with sales and relevant departments, position and risk management, organising and analysing of benchmarks (market intelligence database);

• Key account support and safeguarding budgeted (consolidated) sales profit.

What we offer
As a Nutreco company, Trouw Nutrition’s mission is to Feed the Future. In a world with limited natural resources, our ambition is to meet the rising food needs of a growing world population in a sustainable manner. Working for Nutreco means a fantastic position in an international working environment with lots of development opportunities.

What else is in it for you?

• We will offer you a full-time position, 39 hours per week.

• Your position is classified in a Nutreco Hay scale.

• You will get 20 vacation and 6 ADV days.

• Attractive pension plan.

• You can join our personal well-being program; Fit for The Future.

• You will get a hospitalisation insurance.

• You will get meal vouchers and eco-vouchers.

What we ask
You are highly result oriented and can work quick and efficient. You are also a well-structured person and have a passion for detail. Working in an environment with more than one stakeholder fits you well and besides the fact that for this job you need to have a commercial mind with a helicopter view, you also need to be very analytic.

What you bring

• You have a bachelor’s in economics or any other similar field.

• You have a couple years of relevant working experience.

• You combine a general understanding of the business with knowledge of purchase and sales markets.

• Preferably you have affinity with the agricultural business and environment.

• You are fluent in Dutch and English (writing and speaking), and knowledge of other languages such as French is considered a plus.

Extra information / Apply direct
Are you the perfect candidate we are looking for? We would like to hear from you! You can express your interest in this role by clicking the button “apply online’’ and we will contact you as soon as possible. For more information regarding this vacancy, you can contact Jasper Keijner (Team lead Recruitmemt). In case you do apply, we like to thank you for sharing your ambition with us!

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Our organisation:
Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition and fish feed. Our advanced nutritional solutions are at the origin of food for millions of consumers worldwide. Quality, innovation and sustainability are guiding principles, embedded in the Nutreco culture from research and raw material procurement to products and services for agriculture and aquaculture. Experience across 100 years brings Nutreco a rich heritage of knowledge and experience for building its future.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Nutreco is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, military status or any other status protected by applicable local law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process if you require accommodation. Nutreco is committed to compliance with all applicable legislation, including providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities.