Pre-Costing and Pricing Manager (Packaging)
Full-time
G-Core Capital
Primary Responsibilities:
- Cost estimation:
- develops accurate and reliable product cost estimation, properly accounting for specifications, raw materials, operational parameters and steps, freight, and other cost components.
- produces cost estimates in a timely fashion and compares to post-costing of similar products, historical estimates and quotes to improve costing accuracy.
- works with Sales owners, Commercial Excellence counterparts, and others to understand customer needs and requirements to provide insightful (what if) analyses and alternatives, aiming for improved profitability.
- Tender management and pricing support:
- reviews and analyzes tender and other documents to understand the scope, timing, requirements, terms and other parameters of tenders; helps the Sales owner to summarize tender/customer requirements and to identify areas where the company needs to counter or change terms and conditions to ensure the company’s sustainable profitability and risk minimization.
- helps Commercial Excellence counterparts and/or Sales owner to develop recommendations for optimized execution of bids/tenders/RFQs through understanding data analyses.
- develops recommended prices based on opportunity information, competitive nature, costing, internal guidance, and profitability requirements.
- supports Sales owners on the calculation of due price adjustments in timely and consistent manner.
- contributes to the proper collection, databasing and maintenance of relevant and current data required for cost estimation accuracy.
- adopts quickly and reliably improved costing and pricing methodologies and tools; helps to improve costing and pricing capabilities.
- performs comparative analyses of pre- and post-costing to understand drivers for gaps and collaborates with relevant stakeholders to close the gaps.
- contributes to the collaboration with Operations, Finance, IT to ensure continued accuracy and reliability of cost estimation methodologies and practices.
- works with Operations to share cost estimations to enable Operations to enforce needed parameters (specs, order sizes, colors, etc.).
- helps to increase automation and improvement of costing tools.
- supports and drives improved decision-making through data-driven and insightful analyses.
- Profit improvement :
- performs analyses to identify profit leakages and works with Commercial Excellence, Operations, Sales, and other stakeholders to close profit leakages and improve profitability.
- works on profitability improvement plans for new and existing customers and partners with Sales owners on the execution
Key Performance Indicators:
The position is expected and accountable to consistently demonstrate the following behavior:- Communicates with team and stakeholders pro-actively, timely and clearly regarding work progress, timelines, obstacles, results and challenges.
- Understands and communicates the why: ensures to understand why activities are done and how they are connected to company goals; clearly communicates the “why” to stakeholders.
- Aligns own activities and goals with business needs and goals; targets actions to execute effectively; plans and prioritizes work to meet important timelines and stated deadlines.
- Earns trust of the team and stakeholders, strives for self-development; offers and accepts honest feedback.
- Works effectively with others in a highly collaborative team environment; treats them with respect; recognizes cultural and other differences.
Education & Preferred Experience:
- Degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Marketing, or other relevant degree
- 7+ years of overall business experience with a min 3 years’ experience in costing, cost estimation, finance, pricing in flexibles packaging industry
- Experience in cost estimation and good understanding of manufacturing processes (packaging experience is a must)
- Must be a self-starter
- Strong analytical mindset, excellent analytical skills and Excel skills required
- Pricing experience is a plus
- Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing with all levels within a complex organization
Vacancy posted more than 2 months ago
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