Fragrance & Beauty Pricing Analyst for the Middle East & Africa

Job Description

A Pricing Analyst with the global leader in the creation of Taste & Wellbeing and Fragranceÿ& Beauty, and an essential member of our Fragranceÿ& Beauty Regional Pricing team providing critical support for our Business and Customers in the Middle East & Africa region, while being based in our Dubai office -ÿYour future position?Our Pricing team ensures that Givaudan can continue offering our niche products to customers at the appropriate value and price points to promote sustainable growth and fulfil our purpose objectives.ÿWe are looking to hire aÿ?Pricing Analyst?ÿfor our Regional Pricing team for South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa (SAMEA). As a Pricing Analyst for our Fragrance & Beauty division, you will deliver timely and quality price setting and maintenance for our teams and customers in the high-growth Middle East & Africa region. You will guarantee compliance with the pricing policies and guidelines as an element of the pricing strategy. You will actively interact with all the cross-functional critical stakeholders in the pricing process.This exciting and engaging role offers a broad range of responsibilities, high visibility and the opportunity to contribute and grow with our organisation. Through your strategic ability and sound business understanding, you will support the sub-regions for profitable growth and help Givaudan continue to fulfil our purpose and commercial objectives for the region. Based in our Dubai Media City regional headquarters office, the role will report to the Fragrance & Beauty Regional Head of Pricing & Controlling for the SAMEA region.ÿYou will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. With its heritage stretching back over 250 years, Givaudan has a long history of innovating scents and tastes. Our passion is to collaborate with customers and partners to develop game-changing innovations in the food & beverage, fragrance and beauty industries. We have a culture that works to inspire, challenge and capture the heart and soul of consumers and customers. Our customers in the Middle East & Africa region have local, regional, and international profiles, bringing diversity and curiosity to your daily job.Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs and deliver value.In this exciting role, you will:ÿPrice Setting and Maintenanceÿ-ÿÿ

• Manage ongoing pricing activities and compute prices, cost targets, and margins of fragrance products.
• Maintain pricelists and oversee the price maintenance process in SAP.
• Coordinate pricing process for key customers and provide price negotiation support to the commercial organisation.
• Ensure compliance with the pricing guidelines.

Business Partnering - monitoring, protecting and improving gross marginÿ-ÿÿ

• Manage constructive and proactive partnerships with all key stakeholders (Sales, Finance, Technical, Operations and Customer Care) in the pricing process with a Pricing for Profitable Win Approach.
• Monitor and drive achievement of sales and margin targets/KPIs.
• Ensure proper pricing performance monitoring together with Business Partners and Controlling.
• Periodically analyse gross margin, identify product cost issues, and address these with Procurement, Operations, Finance, and Technical teams.ÿ
• Support key customer agreements initiatives (growth/rebate programmes)

Support Global systems and processesÿ-ÿ

• Participate in global and regional projects on system design and enhancements of the pricing tools.
• Help implement global and regional pricing tools and systems.

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