Senior Pricing Analyst
About Givaudan
Givaudan is a global leader in Fragrance & Beauty and Taste & Wellbeing. We celebrate the beauty of human experience by creating for happier, healthier lives with love for nature. Together with our customers we deliver food experiences, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. In 2023, Givaudan employed 16,260 people worldwide and achieved CHF 6.9 billion in sales with a free cash flow of 13.3%. With a heritage that stretches back over 250 years, we are committed to driving long-term, purpose-led growth by improving people's health and happiness and increasing our positive impact on nature. This is Givaudan. Human by nature. Discover more at www.givaudan.com
Senior Pricing Analyst - Your future role?
As a Senior Pricing Analyst, you will perform daily pricing activities and provide strategic pricing recommendations to ensure global pricing consistency and profitability according to our our goals. You will be introduced to the world of flavours and taste, and learn how flavours are priced about raw material impacts and manufacturing cost changes. As a member of functional business groups, you will work on tender and core list proposals and participate in negotiations.
You will be based in Zürich Kemptthal reporting directly to the Pricing Lead Central Europe.
You will:
- Build and managerelationships: You will be an intermediary between internal departments like controlling, finance, operations, and procurement to understand threats and opportunities and provide strategic input to partners. Last but not least, you ensure pricing and finance performance monitoring together with Partners and Controlling.
- Negotiate Prices: You will participate and prepare price negotiations with customers. Together with partners, you will develop rebate models for different scenarios as part of the negotiations. Also, you work with procurement to understand and analyse threats and opportunities of raw materials movements. As a result, you will manage annual price increases and adjustments for raw material impacts, manufacturing cost changes, or margin improvement on existing products while ensuring success.
- Pricing Activities: You will perform ongoing pricing activities such as standard computing pricing of flavour products, working on tender projects, providing target costs, and price monitoring processes. You align target margin approach to regional needs considering global standards; define action recommendations to avoid gross margin erosion.
- Continuous improvement: You will support the continuous improvement of pricing guidelines, processes and monitoring applications. Moreover, you ensure data maintenance and quality in all pricing systems.
You have:
- Bachelors or Master's degree in Finance, Controlling, Economics, Management or similar
- Minimum 4 years of combined experience in BTB pricing, finance or similar; additional experience in sales, technical or related functions, in the F&F industry
- Excellent approach and used to work with all partners
- Experience in cross-cultural/international environment; overseas experience as an advantage
- Preferably previous customer interaction experience
- Experienced working with numbers and expert in solving challenges
- Service and target oriented mindset, hands-on mentality
- Process and project management skills
- Business fluent in English; German preferable; any additional language skill is an advantage
- Proficient in the applications of the MS-Office world
Your benefits:
- 40 hour working week with flexible working model and remote working
- Additional paid days off
- Favorable pension fund contributions
- Subsidized meals in the Staff restaurant / You benefit from a discounted catering offer (incl. lunch)
- Sport and leisure club (amenities/showers on site)
- Discounts at the company shop
- Free Staff Parking
- Subsidized: REKA vouchers and SBB half fare travelcard
- Complimentary beverages (tea, coffee, water)
- Worldwide private accident coverage and free choice of hospital
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Place of work
8310 Kemptthal
