Senior Pricing Analyst

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Senior Pricing Analyst – Argenteuil, France – Your future position?

As a SeniorPricing Analyst in our Argenteuil site, you will perform day-to-day pricing activities and provide pricing recommendations in order to ensure global pricing consistency and profitability according to company's business objectives.

Your main responsibilities will include:

Establishing constructive and proactive partnership with all key stakeholders in the pricing process with ‘Pricing for Profitable Win Approach’

Being responsible for timely and quality Price Setting and Maintenance

• Perform pricing activities such as computing pricing of fragrances products, providing target costs to Evaluators, validation of the New Business orders
• Provide pricing recommendations for briefs to the Commercial Organization with supporting analysis based on Pricing Policies and market activity
• Manage DOA process by level of allowance from Regional Head to Head of Division F&B
• Work cross-functionality with Sales, Controlling, Operations, Evaluators to support business needs and participate in several interac-tions and meetings with those functions.
  
  

Monitoring, protect and improve Gross Margin

• Define action recommendations to avoid gross margin erosion
• Analyse regularly gross margin and identify product cost issues and address these with Procurement, Operations, Finance & Technical groups as appropriate
• Manage annual price adjustments for significant raw material impact, manufacturing cost changes or margin improvement on exist-ing products
• Annually reviewing and updating rebate%, payment term% and other incentives captured in IBIS Admin table
• Review existing rebate agreements and define new rebate agreements in collaboration with the Sales group by providing P&L analy-sis. Challenge & make recommendations to the Sales Group.
• Calculate annual rebates and send approval to Customer Care & Finance to pay
• Check commission fees calculated by Sales and send approval to Finance to pay
• Calculate the Free cash flow impact for any request of extension of payment terms and follow the DOA process of approval
  
  

Supporting Customer service excellence on pricing/order issues

Guaranteeing Compliance with the Pricing Policies and Guidelines

• Support definition, documentation, implementation and maintenance of pricing related guidelines and principles
• Ensure Data maintenance and quality in all Pricing processes and systems
• Contribute to development of pricing strategy in collaboration with the Regional Pricing Head of the W.E.E region
• Liaise with Legal to ensure financial terms and conditions of customer rebate agreements comply with Givaudan & Local require-ments
• Liaise with Tax and treasury to ensure customer agreements and price quotations take into account potential foreign exchange rate and appropriate incoterms.
• Liaise with Transportation team to define the freight cost for specific customer request
  
  

About you:

• University Degree in Business, Finance or other relevant areas
• Minimum 3 years in industry pricing or finance, account management or sales coordination role in F&B industry or experience in Fra-grance industry in Commercial
• Preferably previous customer interaction experience
• Proficient in communicating in English
• Proven ability to deal with complex IT systems
• Proficient in MS Excel and MS Office
• Solid understanding of pricing mechanisms including profitability
• Solid process and project management skills
• Very strong analytical / numerical skills
• Preferably previous SAP experience
  
  

Our Benefits for you:

• Annual salary on 13.5 months
• Health Insurance - mandatory ("mutuelle")
• Profit Share
• Annual paid leave (40 days)
• Saving Plan - optional
• CSE discounts and offers
• Canteen
  
  

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – 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.

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