General Information
Position
Senior Director (m/w/d) Pricing Strategy ad interim
Daily rate
By arrangement
Expenses
plus expenses
Project duration
as of now
Deployment country
Germany
Deployment city
Baden-Württemberg
Required availability
100 %
Industry
Wholesale
Function
Marketing & Sales
Service
Operative vacancy
Tasks & Objectives
Tasks
Our client is an internationally active retail group and is looking for a Senior Director (m/f/d) Pricing Strategy to fill a vacancy. The current holder of the position will temporarily no longer work in this position, but will accompany the familiarization process.
TARGETS OF POSITION
- Guide the conceptual development and implementation of the Group Pricing Strategy and support the set-up of the sub-function Marketing Analytics
- Assure the buy-in and support of all relevant stakeholders from top management, other functions, and country organizations
MAIN TASKS OF POSITION
- Strategically lead the global strategic pricing and marketing analytics team, strongly leveraging existing know-how and building on previous development
- Further develop group pricing and margin management strategy and assure consistency with company strategy as well as all other functional strategies (esp. Marketing, Sales, IT)
- Derive implementation initiatives to realize strategic ambition, i.e., professionalize and harmonize pricing process, methods, and tools across the group
- Contribute to positive development of operative pricing KPIs with centrally steered strategic and business/ad-hoc driven initiatives
- Create awareness and assure buy-in of key stakeholders from C-level to regional pricing managers by personal interaction, written and personal presentation
- Enable further development of margin management solutions as well as build-up of cross-functional marketing analytics
- Assure quality of pricing work and stepwise development towards industry leading pricing
- Drive strategic ad-hoc topics by her-/himself for the board and Marketing Lead
- Prepare, align, and communicate top management presentations
Personnel accountability
Not specifiedBudget accountability
Not specifiedRequirements & Expertise
Requirements
Relevant experience in above mentioned key task areas
Linguistic proficiency
English
fluent
German
fluent