Finance Specialist (Product and Pricing Management)

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Expectation: The person undertaking this role should act in the best interest of finance topics for product management and pricing policy for international business. She/He must be analytical and be able to look beyond the problems and locate the source and root cause. Thereafter, a systematic approach to develop pragmatic improvement pricing strategy should be undertaken within a reasonable time frame. Presentation and communication skills must be excellent, and he/she must be able to bring his/her ideas to the point. She/He will be the directly supporting the SI EP HQ Product Management and work together with global HQ organization interfaces to improve the business performance. Fluent speaking English is mandatory.

You’ll make a difference by

• Covering commercial responsibility for sales and profitability for an international product group (Sinova) with manufacturing sites in India.
• Being responsible for monitoring and controlling the key business figures of your product group as a pacesetter in cross-functional PLM teams,
• Taking the commercial responsibility for products and presenting them to various internal stakeholders as required and partner with the with the Product Managers as a Business Administration Partner to the PRM Team.
• Continuous tracking of the product group performance which is one of the main tasks and actions needs to be derived if countermeasures are needed.
• The elaboration of business cases in the context of strategic portfolio decisions (expansion, new development etc.).
• Supporting the Product Management colleagues in the interpretation and presentation of the business figures in addition to the commercial activities.
• Being responsible for pricing, including pricing policy and related processes, incl. special price request process, Pricing analytics for the covered regions.
• Implementing the pricing directive in regional sales companies in ASEAN e.g. support the local price positioning, price policy implementation
• Ensuring that pricing is an integral discipline of the sales and marketing strategy.
• Supporting Pricing Manager to enforce proper pricing policy and methodology in all regional sales companies.
• Managing the annual planning cycle for price setting.
• Ensuring that local pricing policy in the regional sales companies is following global pricing principles.
• Gathering market and competitor feedback on pricing
• Supporting Pricing Manager to drive the regional sales companies to utilize the BU’s and divisional pricing analytics tool to identify business opportunities and eliminate price leakage.
• Supporting Asia-Pacific region in SI EP HQ environment for pricing topics

You excel in

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance or Economics
• Several years of pricing experience preferably in the low voltage product market or other related industries
• Experience in dealing in a complex global organizational structure.
• Knowledge of SAP and willingness to gather know how in E-commerce platform tools.
• Fluent in English
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to influence and shape decision-making processes.
• Strong team player with energy and commitment to drive changes and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional and multi-cultural team.
• Proactive attitude and an ability to combine technical skills with an astute and flexible approach to commercial issues on a global level.
• Self-motivated, with ability to take initiative and demonstrate results.