Pricing Specialist

TIRES GROUP SECTOR – BUSINESS AREA EMEA

The Tires Group Sector is responsible for tire sales worldwide. Within the Business Area EMEA and with MENA locations in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Morocco, we serve our partner network, our customers by selling multi-brand passenger light vehicle tires, truck tires and specialty tires in over 20 countries of the region.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Key Responsibilities:

Pricing Strategy

• Developing pricing strategy for PLT/ TT according to market needs taking into account local and central business necessities and objectives.
• Work out positioning strategies of brands vs. Competition, Interbrand positioning, incorporate new brands
• Analyze market price positioning.
• Define / negotiate the ME conditions vs. EMP (Price concept).
• Assist in setting and agreeing the implementation of price changes in ME markets Operational (sales) support

• Analyze price requests from sales taking into consideration: EMP, profitability, competition, etc.
• Assist in managing and steer the product profitability and product mix in close cooperation with controlling
• Create price lists for each importer
• Coordinate with Central PLT and TT pricing
• Identify additional price investment opportunities and special sales actions (OOY, OLD DOT, Plant free stocks) to accelerate sell-in volume.

Data / System

• Monitor prices on the server and SAP for all ME markets.
• Monitor accruals per customers and generate monthly accruals report
• Set up the prices for new articles / successors / special deals, etc.
• Updating Price list per brand, per customer, per country and uploading in common shared platform accessible for Sales & Operations.

Pricing Analysis

• Analyze price information
• Periodical analysis of Sell-In margin and update to management
• Track landed cost factors

Forecast Simulation

• Price / Mix / Volume Analysis based on the latest FC to calculate financial effect for controlling

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS / WORK EXPERIENCE

• Education / Certification: Bachelor's Degree
• University degree in Economics, Marketing, Business Administration is preferred.
• Min. 3 years working experience, preferably in Tyre / Automotive industry
• Experience in Marketing and Sales or Controlling required
• Advanced skills in MS office (Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), other tools like Knime , UI Path.. etc is an advantage