Job Description:
This position will play a pivotal role in helping to accelerate our strategic pricing and Pack Price Architecture enterprise capability in the region. This role is responsible for analysing strategic pricing and PPA opportunities within our categories (following our newly defined PPA process) partnering with reginal portfolio teams to integrating these within our cell strategies to direct longer term portfolio needs and governing cluster plans to deliver these. Specifically, this role will support expansion of our new regional PPA strategic approach across all of the cells including integrating promotional PPA and critically working hand in hand with the cluster teams to define their longer term PPA and strategic pricing plans in line with the regional strategic guidance.
What are we looking for?
An individual who wants to broaden their perspective through working in a regional role to develop their breadth in RGM and partner to drive a step change in capabilities. has strength in financial acumen and commercial (Consumer or customer) understanding. With specific call outs:
- Experience in Analytics and modelling to define fact based recommendations and convert insights and complex data to action plans. Required
- Understandign of the customer P&L, with knowledge of key consumer pricing concepts and KPI’s (e.g. RRP, Elasticity, margin pool, consumer value proposition) and how they impact our financials.
- A self starter/entrepreneurial spirit, highly collaborative, with the ability to work cross-functionally and adapt style to different audiences. Required
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage stakeholders behind recommendations, Required
- Nice to have - RGM prior experience with pricing/PPA
- Nice to have – Consumer market research methodologies creation and interpretation.
- Nice to have - Perspective of multiple markets consumer pricing strategies
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Support the regional portfolio Pricing Director to expand the new regional strategic PPA methodology across the other cells and Markets and define and establish ongoing PPA menucard governance in partnership with the regional portfolio/Activity management team.
- Evaluating and creating recommendations on long term (3 to 5 year) PPA & pricing strategy for the region partnering regional portfolio to integrate into future menucard, including promotional portfolio needs.
- Partner Cluster RGM teams to ensure 3 year PPA roadmaps are defined and clear executional plans are created to deliver against regional guidelines.
- Partner with regional HI and S&F to create ongoing analysis for pricing reporting, monitoring market trends, competitor pricing strategies, and elasticity, directing future IT solution requirements
Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
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For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.
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