This role will be the owner of the regional pricing process, leveraging on tools to support business decisions through management of data quality and insightful analysis. This role will also serve as a valuable channel to bridge strategies from Pricing, Finance, Regional and Global Cocoa teams so as to maximize the value that the cocoa business brings in for the company.
Ideally, this role shall continuously engage key stakeholders to drive improvements in business processes, encourage openness to change and facilitate risk management. This role needs to also drive the transition process from off system to system based quoting and contracting with the full-fledged pricing logic set up.
Key responsibilities:
- ensure availability of a functioning and updated pricing model for offer generation, price discussions and compliance tracking. Jointly define the appropriate pricing strategy and support performance assessment of strategy through reporting and analysis
- consolidate and improve understanding of cost elements to drive transparency and data quality in pricing approach
- communicate requirements to develop and enhance price level calculations in the system, essential for reporting and compliance tracking
- provide indicative prices of specific cocoa products for each delivery period, together with updates on cocoa terminal market and other related information
- govern and support key quote and contract management activities together with Combined Ratio and Commercial Team
Pre-requisites:
- Degree in any discipline
- 2-3 years of relevant working experience (i.e. sales, marketing, analytics, pricing, commodity risk management, controlling or finance)
- Proficient in using Microsoft Office. Experience in Google applications is an advantage
- Have a good understanding of manufacturing structure and supply chain model
- Sensitive to details and equip with analytical skills to manipulate large database for meaningful analysis
