Pricing Manager for Europe

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Lead Pricing Analyst - Your future role?

As the Lead Pricing Analyst – Ingredients Europe in Kemptthal, you will lead the development of pricing strategies across the region, ensuring competitive, profitable, and data‑driven decisions. Reporting to the Global Head of Pricing, this role partners with Sales, Global Product Management, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain to align pricing with our goals and market dynamics.

An important contributor to the Health & Functional Ingredients pricing vision, the manager translates market insights into relevant strategies, guide promotional and customer programs, and enhances pricing governance and consistency. You are a natural collaborator and influencer combines strategic thinking, analytical excellence, and collaborative leadership to lead value within a global, multicultural environment.

If you're a strategic thinker with experience with turning data into strategy, this is an opportunity for you. You excel at collaboration and leadership, and this chance allows you to shape the future of pricing at the heart of a global organization.

Your main responsibilities

• Lead the development of regional pricing strategies for B2B and manufacturing customers, ensuring, profitability, and understanding of our goals.

• Define and manage price budgets and frameworks for European ingredient portfolios, balancing local needs with global consistency.

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Finance to deliver data‑driven pricing recommendations and support commercial decision-making.

• Oversee maintenance of price lists and customer‑specific agreements, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and updates.

• Analyze market trends, margin performance, and discount structures to guide sustainable, value‑based pricing.

• Review and validate pricing requests following internal policies and profitability thresholds.

• Enhance pricing processes and governance, promoting automation, transparency, and efficiency across systems and workflows.

• Communicate pricing rationale and value drivers to all partners.

• Collaborate across multicultural, cross‑functional teams, promoting alignment and continuous improvement in regional pricing practices.

You have

• Bachelor's degree in economics, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, or a field

• Minimum of 3–5 years of experience in pricing, commercial analysis, or finance within a B2B or manufacturing environment.

• 5+ years of experience in ingredient, food, or specialty chemicals markets.

• Collaboratively communicate across diverse teams and departments.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data management tools; experience with ERP and pricing systems (e.g., SAP or equivalent) required.

• Working knowledge of analytics tools or dashboard solutions (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).

• Interpret complex data, build pricing models, and transform analytical insights into practical business recommendations.

• Translate data‑driven findings into clear, commercially relevant advice.

• Comfortable working in a remote, networked environment, encouraging collaboration through virtual tools.

• Fluency in English, French and German is a plus

Our benefits

• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.

• 40-hour working week - at least 4 days a week in the office.

• Favourable pension fund contributions.

• Subsidised meals in the staff restaurant/you benefit from a discounted catering offer (including lunch).

• Sport and leisure club (amenities/showers on site).

• Discounts at the company shop.

• Subsidised REKA vouchers and free parking

• Worldwide private accident coverage and free choice of hospital.

• Worldwide private accident insurance.

• Additional family/education allowance.

• A minimum of 22 days annual leave, additional days off, and the option to purchase extra holidays entitlement

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