Pricing Manager

Company: Airgas
Location: Appleton
Posted on: November 22, 2022

Job Description:

Position Title: Pricing Manager

• Appleton or Germantown, WI
• Monday-Friday, First Shift
  How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?
  The Pricing Manager leads the analyses that support the development and implementation of Region pricing strategies, price execution, and overall price management. In alignment with national strategy and policy, develops ongoing pricing analytics and timely actionable information for Region business leaders, including: President, VP Finance, Area Vice Presidents (AVPs), District Managers and the field sales team. The Pricing Manager also partners across Regions towards consistent Divisional application of strategy, policy and procedure. The role investigates and makes decisions for day-to-day and strategic Regional pricing issues with the goal of overall margin and profitability enhancement.
  In Particular, You Will
  
  • Lead regional pricing efforts, including PPR and RAAPI efforts. Services, repairs and does preventative maintenance on CNC devices.
  • Perform ad hoc pricing analysis
  • Builds and maintains price levels, rent matrices, fee tables, and exemption lists.
  • Responsible for the updating and ongoing maintenance of all SAP price lists, working to align lists and customer placement in lists with regional profitability goals.
  • Prepares sales and customer price increase support materials.
  • Maintains and adjusts retail pricing in alignment with regional, divisional, and national strategies.
  • Monitors and enhances margin trends by providing actionable information at a customer and material level
  • Generates and analyzes price performance reports. Presents key findings to internal stakeholders and facilitate the development of new strategies and tactics to improve performance.
  • Collaborates with operations and functional business process teams to understand and define real cost-to- serve, and incorporate costs into pricing decision processes.
  • Provide backup for sales support function
  • Applies pricing rules, policies and decisions, and provides detailed explanations supporting decisions. Researches pricing discrepancies and proposes solutions to fairly resolve pricing disputes.
  • Provides analysis pricing relative to competition and recommends appropriate actions to the business units
  • Implements market analytics that will foster sales and margin growth opportunities Participates in the design and development of new pricing systems, processes and reports.
  • Other duties and projects as assigned.
    
    Are you a MATCH?
    
    • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business or related degree preferred .
    • Minimum of five years of increasing responsibility in financial analysis, pricing, profitability analysis, product marketing, and/or economics.
    • Prior experience utilizing SAP preferred.
    • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
    • Business and financial acumen.
    • Ability to analyze and disseminate large amounts of data.
    • Skilled in Google Suite or Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and Outlook as well as a demonstrated ability to utilize financial applications within ERP software (i.e. SAP) and SQL.
    • Demonstrated knowledge of financial/statistical modeling and pricing tools preferred.
    • Excellent analytical and creative problem solving skills with the ability to make independent decisions based on investigation and judgment as well as ability to discern when to escalate issues.
    • Exhibits customer focused behavior such as building positive relationships and strives to understand customer's needs, both internal and external.
    • Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to adjust communication method based on customer situation.
    • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
      
      Your differences enhance our performance
      
      At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
      
      We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.
      
      EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
      Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability

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