Global Pricing & Margin Manager
Akzo Nobel

We've been pioneering a world of possibilities to bring surfaces to life for well over 200 years. As experts in making coatings, there's a good chance you're only ever a few meters away from one of our products. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We're active in more than 150 countries and have set our sights on becoming the global industry leader. It's what you'd expect from the most sustainable paints company, which has been inventing the future for more than two centuries.

Job Purpose

The Global Pricing & Margin Manager will play a pivotal role in enabling and supporting AkzoNobel's Margin Management Performance cycle. The role will contribute to global process optimization, analytics, and reporting, ensuring a continuous improvement in margin management capabilities across our business units and functions. Building margin & pricing processes & competencies across the organization, supporting the overall strategy and driving towards sustainable improvements in terms of Strategy, Processes, People & Tools.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead a global margin / pricing network: Activate and lead a global network to keep our community informed about global process stabilization and improvement initiatives. You will communicate standardized processes, share best practices, address performance challenges, and define margin stabilization objectives.
• Lead pricing / margin analysis and optimization to deliver on profit targets.
• Enable consistent Price implementation, integration with relevant systems and follow up across BU.
• Use, develop and tailor methods to underpin optimal price setting routines based on opportunity analysis.
• Transfer learning / methods from Corporate to BU and ultimately to PCU's; increase consistency between Corporate, BU, PCU, country
• Contribute to the global centralized team to constantly improve maturity
• Develop training: Collaborate with the Margin Management enabler/coach community to develop end-user training materials and programs. Your contribution will empower employees to effectively utilize margin management tools and processes.
• Drive implementation of a global Margin Management Performance Cycle: Contribute to the development and implementation of a global Margin Management Performance Cycle. You will work closely with our global Margin/Pricing team (MMP team) to define and implement standardized reporting and key performance indicators (KPIs), ensuring alignment and continuous improvement.
• Design global standards: Utilize your expertise to design global standards that improve the performance of the Margin Management cycle, including data-driven processes and adjacent processes within AkzoNobel.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in business, marketing, or finance with 10+ years of relevant experience
• Master's degree preferred
• Business Acumen: Apply robust analysis and judgment to improve commercial effectiveness and efficiency, delivering optimal financial return for AkzoNobel.
• Project Management: Plan, organize, and manage resources and activities to achieve specified outcomes within defined timeframes and standards.
• Organizational Acumen: Successfully work across organizational boundaries to create optimal business outcomes.
• Knowledge of commercial excellence capabilities such as (e.g. Price, Mix, Price Architecture, Margin reporting cycles, Cost to serve).
• Customer Centricity: Ensure all process stabilization and improvement activities enhance the customer experience and meet business unit and cross-functional requirements
• Knowledge of commercial processes as well as financial background / analytical skills.
• Knowledge of internal sales processes - from quotation, price, terms & conditions
• Knowledge of price negotiation tactics.
• Understanding of market dynamics, price elasticity to enable fact-based price & profit decision making.
• Lead cross-functional project teams
• Being able to give push back also to senior management

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status.

Requisition ID: 39799

Nearest Major Market: Nashville

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