Pricing Lead Consumer (EU/EM)

Job purpose

Bridgestone Europe is looking for a Pricing Lead for Consumer products to join the HQ Pricing Team, which is responsible to define the pricing strategy for Europe 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 Lead will report to the Head of Pricing as part of the Pricing Team. There is no direct report to this role.

Main responsibilities:

• Analyze the market pricing trends within competitive landscape and build European List price according to pricing strategy to achieve the company mix, profit and market share targets.
• Define European price corridor and 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 on Go to Market pricing and condition settings, give-take packages, negotiations, promotions, and tactical campaigns planned to be given to customers and ensure their approvals.
• Take a leading role for project and implementation of digital pricing tool across Europe.
• Coordinate pricing for PAN-European customers tender and negotiations.
• 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.

Requirements:

• Degree in Business Economics, Management Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Finance.
• Min 5 years of relevant pricing experience.
• Experience in pricing is must,  experience in multinational / cross functional roles is a plus.
• Interest / 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.