Pricing Analyst

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Pricing Analyst - Your future role?

As a Pricing Analyst in Argenteuil, you will perform daily pricing activities and provide pricing recommendations to ensure global pricing consistency and profitability according to our business objectives.

You will report to the Regional Head of Pricing.

Your main responsibilities:

Establish constructive and proactive partnership with all partners in the pricing process with ‘Pricing for Profitable Win Approach’

Responsible for timely and quality Price Setting and Maintenance

• Perform pricing activities such as computing pricing of fragrances products, providing target costs to Evaluators, validation of the New Business orders
• Provide pricing recommendations for briefs to the Commercial Organization with supporting analysis based on Pricing Policies and market activity
• Manage DOA process by level of allowance from Regional Head to Head of Division F&B
• Work cross-functionality with Sales, Controlling, Operations, Evaluators to support our needs and participate in several interactions and meetings with those functions.  

Monitor, protect and improve Gross Margin

• Define action recommendations to avoid gross margin erosion
• Analyse gross margin and identify product cost issues and address these with Procurement, Operations, Finance & Technical groups
• Manage annual price adjustments for raw material impact, manufacturing cost changes or margin improvement on existing products
• Annually review and updating rebate%, payment term% and other incentives captured in IBIS Admin table
• Review existing rebate agreements and define new rebate agreements in collaboration with the Sales group by providing P&L analysis. Challenge & make recommendations to the Sales Group. 
• Calculate annual rebates and send approval to Customer Care & Finance to pay
• Check commission fees calculated by Sales and send approval to Finance to pay
• Calculate the Free cash flow impact for any request of extension of payment terms and follow the DOA process of approval
• Support Customer service excellence on pricing/order issues

Guarantee Compliance with the Pricing Policies and Guidelines

• Support definition, documentation, implementation and maintenance of pricing related guidelines and principles
• Ensure Data maintenance and quality in all Pricing processes
• Contribute to development of pricing strategy in collaboration with the Regional Pricing Head of the W.E.E region
• Liaise with Legal to ensure financial terms and conditions of customer rebate agreements comply with Givaudan & Local requirements
• Liaise with Tax and treasury to ensure customer agreements and price quotations take into account potential foreign exchange rate and appropriate incoterms.
• Liaise with Transportation team to define the freight cost for specific customer request

You have:

• University Degree in Business, Finance or other relevant areas
• Minimum 3 years in industry pricing or finance, account management or sales coordination role in F&B industry or experience in Fragrance industry in Commercial
• Preferably previous customer interaction experience
• Proficient in communicating in English
• Experience dealing with complex IT systems
• Understanding of pricing mechanisms including profitability
• Solid process and project management skills
• Preferably previous SAP experience

Our benefits:

• Profit-sharing + saving plan
• Health coverage partially paid by us
• 40 days of holiday per year
• Partial coverage of meals and transport costs
• Career development opportunities

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