Key Tasks:
Assess special pricing requests or
requests for quotes profitability and commercial effects of Channel
transactional pricing decisions across Appliances.
Improve win rate and deal
profitability via willingness to pay analysis, win rate elasticity, and
competitive variance analysis to present competitive pricing on special price
requests and proposals.
Make recommendations regarding
business unit price structures and tactics for existing & new products and
verify that pricing decisions support overall business unit objectives.
Including the establishment of annual product line pricing objectives and
leveraging segmentation and value-based models to establish product line
pricing strategies.
Coordinate the development and
preparation of global price & margin guidelines and bands/envelopes for
existing product lines and new products. Including the evaluation and use of
overall published book pricing, OEM volume break pricing, distributor volume
break pricing, and the creation of pricing bands and envelopes to be used in
transactional decision-making (Channel & Agreements)
Work closely with Product Management
to provide analytical support and analysis in making recommendations for price
adjustments & changes, product life cycle adjustments, product segmentation
and cost inflation using pricing software analytics.
Review low-margin products and
identify price and margin rtunities to improve customer and global product
line profitability. Perform margin and pricing analysis to support key business
unit initiatives as required.
Deeper understanding of market
insights, competitive benchmarking, reference valuation, and cost to serve to
implement pricing tactics and strategies to maximize Business Unit revenue
rtunities.
Recommend and implement bi-annual
book price adjustments and run optimization/modeling scenarios when
recommending published book pricing. Review discount and column structure for
utilization and validation.
Provide pricing guidance and support
to the Direct Business Agreement Pricing Team for assigned global product
lines.
Work with the Shared Service Pricing
Team (Enterprise Team) and drive a shared responsibility for pricing and
commercial excellence in the business unit
Work with the Pricing Process &
Operations Team in the creation of a common database for competitive
information.