Pricing Specialist

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Your Opportunity

The Pricing Specialist creates, maintains and inputs pricing data into the price and discount management system. Processes customer price adjustments, discounts, promotions and other items that impact cost and margin. Works closely with sales, business development and other departments to ensure products carry the correct pricing per terms with customers, promotions and other items that impact pricing; resolves customer expected pricing discrepancies to prevent errors. Other responsibilities include: communication of pricing information/issues, coverage of pricing help line and maintenance of the pricing system and processes.

Responsibilities

• Maintains all aspects of pricing, ensuring that the company business goals of growth, market share, profitability and customer satisfaction are met.

• Manages the daily, weekly and monthly administrative functions required to support and validate the pricing structure.

• Coordinates and maintains all Special Pricing programs and agreements.

• Manages key customer account pricing for accuracy and provides quarterly overviews of the account(s).

• Maintains pricing on a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis, dependent upon the account schedule.

• Manages the cost-pricing updates from Business Managers and ensures SAP is maintained in a manner to support the financial team, completing updates as necessary. Communicates the National Price List approval to Business Managers, including setting up price lists variants and price update variants. Partners with IT to automate the price updates and delivery of price lists.

• Collaborates with Customer Service and business development management to ensure all system parameters are updated and reflecting accurate pricing at all times.

• Reviews and validates Blacksmith programs as it relates to invoice pricing.

• Provides pricing activities to Accounting, Sales and Customer Service, by working with Business Management and the Financial Planning team.

• Trains Customer Service, Sales, customers and others to understand Pricing Structures. Investigates pricing issues for Deductions, Sales and customers.

• Provides analysis to ensure competitive and acceptable pricing levels and conformity to company pricing standards.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. May perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

• High School Diploma or GED required.

• Bachelor's Degree, preferred.

• 2+ years’ prior experience in manufacturing and/or consumer packaged goods, preferred
• Knowledge of accounting/finance systems and financial and business principles.
• Demonstrated knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Office’s Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Strong analytical and variance analysis skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact with internal departments and external vendors.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of database management.
• Understanding of systems integration for moving data from one system to another.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to work well with others in a fast paced, dynamic environment.

• Ability to be respectful, approachable and team oriented while building strong working relationships and a positive work environment.

EEO Information

Smithfield is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment selection process, please call us at 757-357-1595.