Senior Pricing Analyst

Job description / Role

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good.

There's much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Senior pricing analyst at Givaudan u2013 your future position

Are you ready for a new challenge? Then join our Pricing team as Senior Pricing Analyst (Fragrances Division). Based in Dubai, UAE, you will support the vast and high-growth territory of Middle East & Africa. This exciting role offers a broad range of responsibilities, high visibility and the opportunity to contribute and grow with our organization. Through your strategic ability and good business understanding, you will support the sub-region in implementing profitable growth and reaching our business targets.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs and deliver value.

In this exciting role, you will:

• Price setting and maintenance: Manage ongoing pricing activities and compute prices, cost targets and margins of fragrance products. Maintain pricelists and oversee the price maintenance process. Coordinate pricing process for main customers and provide price negotiation support to the commercial organisation. Ensure compliance with the divisional/regional pricing guidelines.
• Business partnering u2013 monitoring, protecting and improving gross margin: Monitor and lead achievement of sales and margin targets/measurements. Ensure pricing performance monitoring together with business partners and controlling. Analyse periodically gross margin and identify product cost issues and address these with Procurement, Operations, Finance & Technical groups. Manage price increases and adjustments for raw material impact, manufacturing cost changes or margin improvement on existing products. Support establishing main customer agreements (growth/rebate programs). Accountable for compliance to all procedures relevant to the function.
• Support global systems & processes: Participate in global/regional projects on system design and enhancements of the pricing tools. Support execution of global/regional pricing tools & systems.

You

Are you naturally invested in results, and can you make strong decisions with confidence? Can you also be customer-focused and improve results, too? If so, you will find this a satisfying role where a passion for your work will match our business purpose. Why not come join us and impact your world.

Your professional profile includes:

• University degree in Business, Finance or relevant areas. Chartered and Cost Accountants preferred.
• Minimum of 7+ years of core pricing/business controlling experience in B2B setup (experience in Flavour & Fragrance, Manufacturing, Chemical or Pharmaceutical industries an advantage).
• Good process and project management skills.
• You have a head for numbers: confident numerical skills.
• You're a skilled communicator with the ability to work with customers for pricing negotiations.
• Comfortable with complex IT systems, Excel and SAP (or any relevant ERP).

Our benefits:

• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.
• A creative team environment that will inspire you.
• Life insurance.
• Health insurance.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people's lives. You work within an inspiring teamwork culture u2013 where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions. Every essence of you enriches our world.

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners. Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.