Global Pricing & Business Intelligence Manager

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Would you be interested in a dynamic role in a global company with a purpose of creating sustainable and innovative fiber-based products and solutions for everyday life?

We are currently looking for a Global Pricing & Business Intelligence Manager to serve as the business expert for market pricing and business intelligence gathering. You will play a key role for developing Value-Based propositions for existing products and new product offerings. In your role, you will report to the Head of Marketing and Business Development, Global Food Packaging

and the position is based in any Ahlstrom locations in US or Europe.

As a a Global Pricing & Business Intelligence Manager, your main responsibility areas will be:

Business Intelligence

Develop a clear picture of trends impacting Consumers, Customers (Converters, CPGs, Retail) and Competitors. Issue a structured report system to secure the sharing of actionable insights with Food Management Animate a Food BU BI community, involving Customer Service, Sales, Marketing & Business Development Teams to collect and share Intelligence information.Lead the use and development of business intelligence tools.Investigate and monitor trends for existing and new business segments.

Competitor intelligence

Generate competitor profiles and segmentations, creating a clear picture of capabilities in different regions and product segments.Investigate and monitor Competitors actions, secure the relevant information sharing with Food Management and relevant stakeholders

Pricing Management – Based on internal and external information sources:

Gather stakeholders to review pricing and margin performance, raw materials & energy input trends, and future pricing actions. Provide reports and analysis that drives actionable pricing insight for both new products in launch phase and current product portfolio.Deploy effective pricing governance that aligns to BU goals while permitting agility in commercial actions. Support the markets developing new pricing models and practices.In coordination with Division Pricing Lead, synthetize BU pricing strategies to report accurately the situation to Food BU management and GroupAnalyze and develop clear recommendation in terms of pricing structure (% of Sales under Contracts, Contract structure and content, etc)

Commercial Excellence

Be the key contact point of Group Comex Team for the entire Food BUDevelop further uses for the CRM platform for both business intelligence and pricing agility and management.

We can offer you

A position in a truly global company – some 7,000 employees spread across 37 worldwide locations.Learning and development opportunities.Flexible working hours.An awesome and experienced team.Smart & Diverse work.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Engineering or Marketing, or equivalent field Experience as a Pricing Analyst, Financial Analyst, or a comparable role,Business intelligence: Deep knowledge and understanding of a value chain (Suppliers, Customers, Competitors, Technologies, Products) to help support relevant critical informationPricing: Deep knowledge of Product portfolio, Cost structures, P&L (MOVC, EBITDA) Pricing structure and Pricing dynamics in the marketCollaborative skills and ability to work cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives. Partnering with others to get work done. Sales Tools and Customer Excellence:

Deep knowledge of Sales Contracts and Credit ManagementProficiency in CRM software and other customer service tools

If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you! Please click APPLY and submit your application asap!

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About Us. Ahlstrom is a global leader in combining fibers into sustainable specialty materials. Our purpose is to Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. Our vision is to be the Preferred Sustainable Specialty Materials Company for all our stakeholders.

We serve five growing and distinctive end markets, which form the basis for our five divisions: Filtration, Food & Consumer Packaging, Healthcare, Building Materials, and Technical Materials.

Our net sales in 2023 amounted to EUR 3.0 billion and we employ some 7,000 people . .

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