Pricing Specialist at Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Position Description

Job Purpose

• Bridgestone is looking for a Pricing Specialist to join the Pricing Team, which is responsible to define the pricing strategy for South Africa and give the necessary guidelines and support to regions for successful execution, as well looks for continue improvement in pricing process and governance.
• Given the cross-functional participation involved, the person will create and maintain relationships with different stakeholders (functions, teams, BU’s, regions and countries) in the organization.
• The person maintains high ethical standards, using only appropriate methods consistent with Bridgestone values.
• The Pricing Specialist will report to the Pricing Manager as part of the Pricing Team.

Responsibilities

• According to pricing strategy, build South African List price and prepare changes to achieve the company mix, profit and market share targets
• Define price corridor and follow inter-channel price structure, review pricing conditions (Discounts & Rebates) proposed by region sales and pricing teams to ensure their consistency with price policy and corridors
• Act as a partner for the regions given responsibility ; work together and challenge all the price condition settings, give-take packages, negotiations, promotions, and tactical campaigns planned to be given to customers and ensure their approvals
• Coordinate pricing for customers tender and negotiations
• Define the right pricing strategy for new products ; ensure the alignment and buy- in with regions, take part in Cross Functional teams for new product launches, being single contact for setting prices and building business case for new products
• Ensure follow up on monthly financial results and price variance achievements, clarify and report any deviations from target
• Analyze and model various pricing data (sell in/sell on/sell out) and prepare analysis or business cases for sales teams when necessary to give insights to enable better decision making
• Perform ad hoc projects as needed to meet near-term and long-term pricing objectives
• Management of transfer price-list from Bridgestone Global Suppliers.
• Serve as internal subject matter expert on price data acquisition / research methodologies, analysis, reporting, and cooperate with Market Intelligence
• Supports leadership team members in understanding what the data means and what actions to take

Requirements

• Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Finance
• Min 5 years of relevant experience. Interest and knowledge on automotive and mobility trends, market dynamics of tire industry is plus
• Fluent in English; excellent written and verbal communication skills with high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Excel and familiar working with SAP
• High analytical skills and passion for data and numbers with strong connection to sales , business and market environment
• Strong negotiation ,influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Collaborative and proactive team player, with problem solving and continuous improvement mindset
• Strong values in line with Bridgestone’s behavioural expectations: Agility, Courage, Ownership, Teamwork, Flexibility.
• Learning Agility: actively identifies new areas for learning, learns from experience and is comfortable with complexity and ambiguity