Parts Pricing Manager
Key information
- Publication date:10 October 2024
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Mex VD
BOBST Business Unit Service & Performance (BUSP) is looking for its new Pricing Manager.
As Pricing Manager, you will report to the Global Pricing Director of the BUSP.
This is a permanent contract with a starting date negotiable.
Composed with several members located in different countries around the world, the objective of the Pricing Team is to manage the BUSP pricing for Spare Parts, Upgrades, Consumables, Digital & Service Products and Field Technician tariff worldwide.
As Pricing Manager, you will report to the Global Pricing Director of the BUSP.
This is a permanent contract with a starting date negotiable.
Composed with several members located in different countries around the world, the objective of the Pricing Team is to manage the BUSP pricing for Spare Parts, Upgrades, Consumables, Digital & Service Products and Field Technician tariff worldwide.
Mission
The Pricing Manager manage a team of people in charge of defining the pricing policies, settings material & transport prices, with the objective of reaching the assigned objectives in terms of profit and customer satisfaction.
The Pricing Manager monitor the results by using the relevant dashboards and is part of the budget definition.
In order to achieve this mission, the position involves close interaction with the customers, the product lines and the local entities.
Main Responsibilities
- Manage a team of 6 people with functional and hierarchical reports, including daily management, definition of operational organization and processes, objectives assignment and appraisal, skills development.
- Contribute to the definition of the Group pricing strategy and its implementation.
- Liaise with his counterparts in the BUSP organization to consider their input and communicate about the pricing strategy.
- Ensure that the objectives assigned in terms of profit, customer satisfaction and price consistency are reached.
- Analyze our pricing, sales and margin position for various products and recommend pricing evolutions and other marketing mix strategies to generate increased revenue, profits, and customer satisfaction.
- Interface with salespeople to understand market feedbacks, and help explaining the pricing strategies developed.
- Pilot projects inside the Pricing Transformation Roadmap to professionalize Bobst BU Services and Performance pricing, by establishing timelines, defining deliverables, and drafting communications or presentations. The projects can consist in new pricing methodologies, pricing tools, internal processes, new product pricing strategy, etc.…
- Promote and sponsor a positive cooperation between BU Printing & Converting / BU Service & Performance organization
Experience :
- 5 years and more successful experience in a Pricing position.
- Customer focus and customer service oriented
- Team management skills
- Team player
- Problem identification and solution provider
- Analyzing complex situation
- Handling case from wide scope to small details
- Organized nature
- Comfort in dealing with Technical and Commercial issues
- Creative thinking
- Ability to work in a matrix and multi-site environment
- Excellent communication skills
- Integrity & Trust
- Bachelor's degree in finance, operations, research, statistics, math, economics, marketing, or related analytical discipline preferred.
- Bilingual English / French. Other language a plus.
- Strong capability in Excel, PowerPoint and other Windows applications.
- SAP ECC and/or BI Tools (Tableau) knowledge and work experience would be a plus.
For more than 130 years, and over 50 countries, BOBST has always been at the forefront of innovation and we want to accelerate connectivity, digitalization, automation and sustainability to make packaging better than ever.
BOBST is one of the world's leading suppliers of equipment and services to packaging and label manufacturers in the folding carton, corrugated board and flexible materials industries. Join our highly qualified staff and together, let's shape the future of the packaging world.
The production site of Mex, near Lausanne in Switzerland, is also the headquarters of the Bobst Group. It is the most important site, employing approx. 1500 passionate people.
It also trains each year roughly 200 apprentices. The site offers an idyllic work environment. In the countryside and close to major highways, it is also well served by public transport. It offers many amenities, such as a corporate restaurant, sports fields, a fitness and a nursery. The facilities have been recently renovated and represent a model for sustainable development.
Contact
- Vincent Bobst SA, PO Box, 1001 Lausanne