The Pricing Specialist focuses on pricing and drives improvement in gross margins by providing visibility to all components of the value chain.
Responsibilities- Drives profitable growth, gross margin targets as a percentage of sales and gross margin percentage expansion.
- Understands and leads pricing practices to ensure price for value and gross margin expansion.
- Ensures products and customers’ sales records are analyzed and performance is evaluated against targets. Monitors product gross margins and profitability against control standards. Reviews product prices, approves price deviations, discontinues unprofitable products, and implements price increases and price hold strategies.
- Support commercial team to optimize cost by collaborating with sourcing, technology, product management team and other functions.
- Responsible for gross margin for specific product platforms such as black and white products or others assigned by supervisors.
- Supports and is committed to Avient's LSS improvement process. Plans strategies to ensure error-free work and conveys this attitude in the daily performance of various duties.
- Collaborate with various internal departments to optimize Pricing function.
- Implementation of the strategic marketing direction for the product pricing platforms, such as target selling price for new product launches and other focus additives products.
- Generate pricing reports and provide insights to commercial team based on profitability data.
- Other duties/projects as assigned.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficient in SAP system operation.
- Fluent oral and written English is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree or above.
- Minimum 1 year working experience in marketing, customer service, or other relevant functional roles.
Skills Required
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency operating SAP
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- At least 1 year of experience in marketing, customer service, or a relevant functional role
- Fluent written and spoken English
Avient Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Avient Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Avient Corporation.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with immediate vesting and a company match is part of the package, and company filings confirm employer-supported retirement plans. This foundation positions retirement benefits as a meaningful element of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes vacation and dedicated hours for community service, with many roles offering eligibility from Day One. The offering spans vacation, sick time, holidays, and volunteer time, providing breadth beyond basic leave.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Performance-based bonuses and formal recognition programs complement base pay, and some manufacturing postings describe guaranteed bi-annual bonuses. Overtime pay availability in hourly roles can materially lift take-home earnings.
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What We Do
Welcome to a new kind of materials company. This is a time where the world craves a more sustainable planet, unprecedented innovation and economic growth. This is a time where people seek strong relationships, diverse perspectives and an opportunity to accept the most pressing challenges of today. It’s in this spirit, that these two complementary businesses have been joined into one. Avient promises to honor the legacies of its past organizations as it seeks to build a world-class sustainable organization – together – that creates value for all stakeholders. Together, Avient will help customers to build a better world with an expanded portfolio of polymer colorant and additive solutions. In addition, all customers will benefit from: • expanded resources, services, development, and technical support • faster and more comprehensive innovation • a combined base of highly skilled R&D teams • a broader, best-in-class solution portfolio • improved geographic reach • enhanced supply security
