Senior Pricing Manager
Job Description
Location: Chicago, IL
- Partner with the businesses and functions across Americas to identify, develop and execute industry leading pricing strategies.
- Lead and drive transformational performance improvement in pricing, focused on increasing sales, improving gross margins and operating profit.
- Analyze business value chains to establish the most appropriate transfer pricing policy.
- Provide excellent customer service to both internal and external customers, while developing and maintaining procedures and policies focused on pricing accuracy and profit maximization.
- Act as subject matter expert for the organization on pricing strategies; present strategies and tactics to leadership in a variety of organizational settings.
- Provide strategic and analytical leadership to develop recommendations for enhanced price levels, policies and processes.
- Monitor market pricing and work with product managers to incorporate competitor benchmarking to optimize price-value positioning for the portfolio, including during the new product introduction (NPI) process to competitively position new product offerings.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Mathematics or Business from four-year College or University. M.B.A. is preferred.
- Eight (8) to ten (10) years’ experience in strategic pricing, or equivalent education and experience.
- Experience as a business analyst with demonstrated ability to synthesize information and present to senior leadership.
- Strong analytical, statistical, and financial skills.
- Strong working knowledge of database structure, tools and SQL.
- Expert level ERP knowledge, preferably JDE.
Meet Your Recruiter
Ashley Schmitt
Technical Recruiter
Ashley Schmitt is a dedicated and experienced Senior Recruiting Team Lead passionate about empowering individuals through career opportunities. With an impressive track record of 8 years at Sterling, she has significantly impacted the organization's talent acquisition and development strategies.
With a remarkable 12-year career in the field of recruiting, Ashley has garnered a deep understanding of the industry's dynamics and trends. She has witnessed the ever-changing job market and thrived in guiding people through its complexities. For Ashley, the most rewarding aspect of recruitment is finding people roles that can genuinely improve their professional lives.
As a Senior Recruiting Team Lead, Ashley's leadership abilities shine through as she leads her team to excel in their roles. She believes in fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment where all team member's strengths are recognized and utilized to achieve collective success.
Advice for candidates from Ashley: “Reflect on your skill sets and what makes you happy, be realistic about your strengths and weaknesses. Strengthen your online presence and always be networking!”