Pricing Analyst

About Vibrantz Technologies

Vibrantz Technologies is a leading global provider of specialty chemicals and materials solutions whose purpose is to bring color, performance, and vibrancy to life. Every day, our employees, the products we make, and our valued customer partnerships are inspired by this purpose.  

Serving over 11,000 customers, Vibrantz’s technologies are trusted in a variety of advanced materials, color solutions and performance coatings applications and consumer products. We are experts in particle engineering, glass and ceramic science and color technology. Our technologies are used in small amounts to make big impacts on applications and consumer products, including durable vehicles and batteries, easier-to-clean appliances, energy efficient roof tiles and bricks, stronger and more decorative glass, and eco-friendly paints.  

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Vibrantz has over 50 manufacturing facilities and sales offices on six continents, and we employ 4,500 individuals. Our shared culture is rooted strongly in our six core values that focus on safety, our people, customers, excellence in all we do, environmental stewardship and integrity, ethics, and trust. And we are intent upon fostering a workplace that engages not only employees’ heads and hands and – uniquely – their hearts.  

Vibrantz is owned by American Securities, a leading U.S. private equity firm that invests in market-leading North American companies with annual revenue generally ranging from $200 million to $2 billion and/or $50 million to $200 million of EBITDA. American Securities and its affiliates have approximately $23 billion under management and are based in New York with an office in Shanghai.  

For more information, please visit www.vibrantz.com and www.american-securities.com. 

Job Function

Reporting into the VP Finance, Performance Coatings, the Pricing Analyst will be based out of Houston, TX or Mayfield Heights, OH and will be responsible for commercial support including price analysis, product pricing, price maintenance, rebate, and rebate management.  This person will work closely with Sales, Product Management, and Customer Service to identify pricing opportunities, develop pricing segmentation for the business, maintain and ensure accuracy of product pricing and support the business with pricing proposals.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with commercial team to identify pricing opportunities, track execution, and provide appropriate metrics.
• Work with customer service to manage price record card updates timely.
• Ensure proper billing of surcharges.
• Partnering with PC leadership and AmSec, develop segmented price ranges by product group.  This includes identifying outliers to drive improvement.
• Detailed pricing to include entry, maintenance, and creation of price quotations
• Justification/research supporting price changes
• Maintaining rebate structures
• Support Product Management Team by creating reports, data mining and working with the data warehouse
• Ability to efficiently prioritize and meet project deadlines
• Ensuring accuracy of initial price entry by having strong attention to detail
• Efficient price quote turnaround with a sense of urgency
• Other duties as assigned

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or a related field
• 2+ years of experience in Operations, Finance, Pricing or Sales
• MS Office – Competent and efficient use of Microsoft Suite of Software
• Self-motivated and with a strong initiative to develop the knowledge and skills to take on additional responsibilities

Preferred Experience

• Industry experience (Paint and Coatings, Thermoset Composites, Raw Material suppliers)
• SAP – high comfort level with ability to learn new transactions or similar ERP system

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, paid vacation, and 401K.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

The physical demands and working conditions are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Location

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Vibrantz Technologies Inc. (“Vibrantz”) is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. Vibrantz strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.