Strategic Pricing Manager

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Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.
Job Purpose and Impact

The Strategic Pricing Manager leads the development and deployment of pricing strategies, processes and projects across Cargill Sweeteners, Starches & Texturizers Europe. In this role, you will drive profitability, pricing, margin, and portfolio optimization projects across the business groups to provide continuous optimization of critical pricing capabilities such as value based pricing, consumer and retail pricing, big deal pricing and negotiations and pricing science, analytics and technology. Key Accountabilities

Develop plans and deliver results in a fast-changing business environment – lead the development and execution of pricing strategies to maximize profitability by partnering with various stakeholders, like Product Line, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance.
Develop and deploy fact-based approach to business profitability by in-depth understanding of the margins at the category, application, and customer level for defined sales channels.
Lead multiple profitability optimization projects and deploy strategic pricing capabilities for Cargill Sweeteners, Starches & Texturizers Europe and align with their strategies, market dynamics and needs.
Provide advanced knowledge and thought leadership to help define roadmaps and implement initiatives by showing a lead by example implementation style by taking the lead role together with business owners on new approaches for big deal negotiations.
Support the deployment of pricing as an end to end process from strategic considerations to actual price setting techniques, governance and supporting technology.
Continuously evaluate pricing developments and trends to ensure new thought leadership and capabilities are introduced into the various business groups.
Generate hypotheses for profit improvement opportunities, validate with data and facts and develop deployment projects to capitalize on the opportunities.
Provide thought leadership in the execution of different pricing strategies and improve sustainable profitability by partnering with various internal functions, including product line, sales, marketing and finance.
You will serve as an expert in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues/problems. You may provide direction to lower level team members and be a key contributor. Other duties as assigned Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Balancing complex analytics to derive insights from large and complex sets of business data with pragmatism and taking people along.
Ability to take risk and reach a decision with less than perfect fact base in a fast-changing business environment.
Financial knowledge for profit and loss, margin and price decision making.
Experience in successfully improving margins through pricing initiatives
Minimum of six years of related work experience
Other minimum qualifications may apply Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in a related field
Knowledge of costing models in a manufacturing environment
Solid understanding or work experience of risk-management concepts and tools
Working across core business functions, such as, marketing, product-line management, operations, finance, sales etc.
Strong direct & indirect influencing / leadership skills

Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

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