Price Support Engineer - Kempton Par at Xylem Inc.

SCOPE:  

• Support the Africa Price Lead with price development and data management activities.
• Assist with analysing price metrics to ensure and maintain compliance with price strategies.
• Develop tools and Standard Operating Procedures that will optimize our price actions.
• Initiates continuous improvement projects that will optimize and simplify the price process.
• Investigate price and margin leakage and waste.
• Support company high impact culture through demonstration and living the vision and values.

RESPONSIBILITIES  

Data Management  

• Develop and modify data infrastructure to accelerate data processing, analysis, and reporting.
• Developing standards of operation related to the data of each family group of a product.
• Assist Price Decision Maker (PDM), Finance and / or Master Data Controller with maintenance and correction of price & master data on ERP and / or other price tools.
• Assist and coordinate with Product Managers to ensure availability of up-to-date price list of products.

Pricing  

• Involved in the price increase activities by analysing price changes to customers based on the IPL changes by GC.
• Support during preparation of Customer pricelists & tools for each region and brand along with continues update and coordination of master data.
• Preparation and evaluation of Internal CQM sheets to the sales support and tendering departments for products and spare parts.
• Supports other departments (Product managers, sales, finance, and sales support teams) in concerns related to pricing and data, i.e. price communication, competitor analyses and market trends, etc.
• Address issues and concerns raised by team members relating to pricing suggestions.

REQUIREMENTS  

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience working in similar capacity / experience in finance and analytics strongly preferred.
• Advanced Excel experience essential.
• SAP/ Power PI experience will be an added advantage.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES  

• Ability to analyse, interpret, and organize substantial amounts of data, able to sit in front of computer screen for prolonged periods of time.
• Meticulous – the ability to pay close attention to detail while remaining accurate is crucial in the analysis of large collections of data. (accuracy and diligence)
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to work towards meeting multiple deadlines simultaneously.
• Interest and knowledge about the industry, including competitors and market trends.