Strategic Pricing Manager

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Ideal Standard is a leading manufacturer of bathroom products in Europe and MENA, providing a broad range of branded products for residential and non-residential end-markets in more than 20 countries. For over 100 years, our mission has been one of Innovation and Design to make life better for our customers.

We are currently looking to recruit an experienced Pricing Manager to design and implement pricing strategies and provide the commercial entities with pricing solutions in diverse and complex commercial negotiations.

As part of the corporate pricing team, you will work on

Pricing strategy

Development of profitable commercial growth strategies that take into account our value proposition, the value chain, our competition, our target segments’ needs and their willingness to pay as well as our costs (fixed and variable)

Price setting

· Strategic pricing of new product introduction

· Manage and control the European price corridor

· Support countries with price increases

· Follow up of price delivery variances vs plan

· Review of commercial terms and trading agreements (on and off-invoice discounts)

· Support with pricing for large tenders

Market intelligence

· Provide insights and data about competitors and market developments

· Build analysis including market size, market segmentation, channels, competitors, trends

· Develop and maintain dedicated tools

Price implementation

· Ability to develop Executive level presentation material

· Present proposals with clear financial impacts and trade-offs

· Obtain buy-in and consensus from project sponsors ensuring actions are reflected in the plans

· Support Sales with required analyses and insights to ensure a successful execution of actions

· Price monitoring

We are looking for:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative based field
• 5 to 7 years of proven experience in a pricing role, preferably with experience both as a consultant and as an in-house pricing specialist
• Ability to think laterally, coach and facilitate at all levels in multi-cultural environments
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at various levels within the organization, create buy-in, facilitate, influence/steer and motivate as appropriate (from Executive level to White collars)
• Energetic and results-driven personality with a positive attitude towards learning
• A pragmatic problem solver with an impeccable track record of delivering on time and according to the strategy and guidelines set while making the most efficient use of resources
• Strong data analysis skills, financial modeling and forecasting skills
• Commitment to meeting and exceeding expectations
• A self-starter, able to work independently with limited supervision
• Ability to operate in a matrix organization
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI and BW skills
• Excellent command of English, both in speaking and writing
• Availability to travel (20%)

We look forward to hearing from you!

Due to volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. All inquiries and applications will be treated with the utmost discretion.

NOTE TO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: We do NOT accept unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes/CVS. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may NOT submit resumes/CVs through LinkedIn (or any other online platform) or directly to HR, managers and staff members. Ideal Standard is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs or applications and explicitly reserve its right to contact candidates presented in such unsolicited CV or application.

Ideal Standard is a leading manufacturer of bathroom products in Europe and MENA, providing a broad range of branded products for residential and non-residential end-markets in more than 20 countries. We manufacture products for all of the major product categories in the bathroom products market with an annual turnover of around 725 Mio and we believe our comprehensive offering differentiates us from our competitors. We enjoy leading market positions in many of the largest bathroom products markets in Europe and MENA. We sell our products under a series of well-known international and national brands including Ideal Standard, Porcher, Armitage Shanks, and Vidima. We operate a number of manufacturing plants across Europe and in Egypt, and we employ almost 8,500 people across our business. For over 100 years, our mission has been one of Innovation and Design to make life better for our customers.