Summary

Detailed Description

• Manage material pricing for regional / global customers for a specific market segment.
• Accountable for delivering competitive material pricing solutions to support growth and margins as per company objectives.
• Typically manages multiple projects across 10+ support employees per project.
• Collaborate with global customer unit, customer, program management, business proposal lead, finance and/or sales to determine material pricing strategy. (Awareness)
• Align on trade-offs between proposal cycle-time, solution precision and scope with clients to deliver agreed to pricing strategy. (Awareness)
• Project manage supply chain solution with commodity management, costing teams, engineering teams to deliver desired pricing and margin solutions. (Proficient)
• Prepares material pricing solutions for new business opportunities (bids) and manage ongoing pricing through the lifecycle of the product (re-pricing) including generation of Bill of Material, cost competitive analysis, margin recommendations. (Proficient)
• Provide insight and recommendations to support external (customers or suppliers) negotiations. (Intermediate)
• Presents proposed solution to key stakeholders. (Awareness)
• Perform take-down trends analysis and modeling to leverage insight in service requests. (Intermediate)
• Conduct market research and generate product teardowns to enable competitiveness assessments in service request. (Awareness)
• Provide supply chain internal or external consulting / solutioning. (Awareness)
• Provide value engineer proposals (Awareness)
• Develop annual material margin build-up plan, obtain alignment with key stakeholders and proactively project manage during the year. (Awareness)
• Consolidates, tabulates, analyzes and reports on various commitment and performance metrics as per reporting schedule. (Intermediate)
• Proactively drive continuous improvement in margin expansion, cycle-time, pricing competitiveness, pricing tactics and process efficiency. (Intermediate)
  

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Costing / pricing experience in the market segment including industry pricing, technology and market trends.
• Strong systems skills, including common office platforms such as MS Office and Access. Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data.
• SCM expertise with an understanding of finance and supply chain.
• Technically inclined. Able to read BTP drawings and understand different expects of the BTP requirements.
• Good communication, negotiation, presentation, client management and influence skills.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to exceed client / customer expectations.
  

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Travel may be required.
  

Typical Experience

• 1 to 3 years of applicable experience

Typical Education

• Bachelors degree in related field (Business or Engineering, I.e. Mechanical engineering for industrial products), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience. Educational requirements may vary.

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