Stream Lead Pricing Excellence

About the role

The Next Level program is our plan that paves the way for the next decade of sustainable growth by moving Barry Callebaut closer to markets and customers while fostering simplicity and digitization to advance our well-recognized innovation and sustainability approach to deliver additional value for all our stakeholders.

As Stream Lead Pricing Excellence, you will become part of the Pricing Excellence initiative within Next Level. The objective of the Pricing Excellence initiative is to mature BC’s pricing processes and systems in order to grow our business profitably, both on margin and volume,  and to install a simplified solution that creates transparency to sales and senior management (up to CEO level).

 

The Pricing Excellence initiative, consists of 3 phases

• Solution design: conducting a maturity assessment of the current organization, processes and tools, as a basis to define the high-level dream state, and the creation of the initiative roadmap with business case

• Detailed solution design and implementation plan: develop the 360° Target Operating Model (principles, process target state, tools, incentive models & organization), conduct a detailed in-depth as-is analysis, and translate it into a detailed implementation plan

• Implementation: design of detailed E2E process, global roll-out of the target operating model, and implement the E2E process & tooling

 

The program is divided into multiple streams (strategy, price models, tools & governance). In this role, you will be the end responsible of a designated stream. The goal is to ensure the in time, global delivery of the project in line with the monetization of the overall business case. A stream typically includes three steps: Concept design, Pilot & Implementation Phase.  

Your main stakeholder will be the pricing counterpart on the business side. Depending on the stream, other stakeholders may be Finance, Information Management, Sales, or other.  Next to the internal stakeholders, it can be the case that you will also work closely together with an external supplier.

 

Key Responsibilities include

• Project management 

  • Drive and lead planning, coordination and implementation of the project to ensure delivery on time, in full and within budget, reaching the project goals across BC globally.

  • Manage and lead team of participants to ensure that project objectives are met

  • Set-up of governance structure & meetings

  • Develop and maintain project plans, and monitor timeline progress

  • Oversee resource management & performance (both internal and external)

  • Management of budget resources

  • Follow-up of interdependencies with other projects and initiatives

  • Conduct risk analysis and manage identified risks

• Content gatekeeper 

  • Establishment of project charter and subflows

  • Ensure a qualitative delivery of the concept phase

  • Coordinate and assess the pilot phase

  • Creation and follow-up of global implementation plan

  • Ensure content alignment on a global and functional level

  • Structuring content for project meetings and overarching program alignments during the whole project

• Act as an Ambassador of the stream

  • Actively promote and ensure a positive energy around the stream

  • Engage and coordinate Stakeholders

 

About you

• Minimum 5 years of business experience

• At least 5 years of experience in pricing ideally in a B2B environment and in project management in a multinational and/or global environment

• Proven track record for managing complexity in a project environment and keeping team energy high for maximum impact

• Proficiency in MS Office suite (especially Exc