Senior Pricing Manager - Chicago, United States - Sterling Engineering

Description

Title: Sr. Pricing Manager

Location: Chicago, IL

Salary: $145-155k/yr w. bonus

Duties:

1. Partner with the businesses and functions across Americas to identify, develop and execute industry leading pricing strategies.
2. Lead and drive transformational performance improvement in pricing, focused on increasing sales, improving gross margins and operating profit.
3. Analyze business value chains to establish the most appropriate transfer pricing policy.
4. Provide excellent customer service to both internal and external customers, while developing and maintaining procedures and policies focused on pricing accuracy and profit maximization.
5. Act as subject matter expert for the organization on pricing strategies; present strategies and tactics to leadership in a variety of organizational settings.
6. Provide strategic and analytical leadership to develop recommendations for enhanced price levels, policies and processes.
7. Monitor market pricing and work with product managers to incorporate competitor benchmarking to optimize price-value positioning for the portfolio, including during the new product introduction (NPI) process to competitively position new product offerings.

Competencies needed:

1. Bachelors degree in Finance, Mathematics or Business from four-year College or University. M.B.A. is preferred.
2. Eight (8) to ten (10) years experience in strategic pricing, or equivalent education and experience.
3. Experience as a business analyst with demonstrated ability to synthesize information and present to senior leadership.
4. Strong analytical, statistical, and financial skills.
5. Strong working knowledge of database structure, tools and SQL.
6. Expert level ERP knowledge, preferably JDE.