Spain-Madrid; France-Île-de-France; Germany-Düsseldorf; Italy-Milan; Poland-Warsaw; United Kingdom-Hemel Hempstead
Purpose Statement
Supports the Urology (EMEA) leadership by providing pricing support & governance, pricing strategy, enhancement to pricing tools and processes and ad hoc analyses.
This position will assure a competitive pricing for all of our products and services and insure that the appropriate controls are in place for compliance with the corporate financial policies.
- Partner with marketing and sales teams to set up optimal pricing strategies for Urology product and service portfolio.
- Leverage a data-driven approach to deal design, so to maximize value generation and commercial impact of Urology offerings on key deals.
- Enhance pricing tools available to the organization through a strong collaboration with cross-divisional teams.
- Proactively identify pricing and commercial opportunities at market and customer level
- Make use of meaningful analytics and generate actionable insights to drive strong execution from a pricing and commercial standpoint.
Responsibilities:
- : As Pricing Associate for the Urology division, coordinate the annual price revision and review process. Partner with Franchise /Product Marketing, Country Marketing, and the Sales Organization to formulate the annual strategic view on pricing and final pricing strategy agreement. Co-ordinate the Pricing Leadership review and sign-off on Pricing Strategy and the Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
- Pricing/Profitability Achievement. Ensure a successful implementation and execution of the cross-divisional profitability program within Urology following the guidelines, requested actions, milestones, targets, and deadlines established by the Pricing Center of excellence (CoE). Keep the Urology divisional stakeholders informed properly and timely on the TOP2.0 initiative.
- Support Global Marketing Strategyby providing input for the Strategic Plan and Annual Operating plan with market sizing, projections and collaborate with various ad hoc requests to support divisional and regional presentations.
- Business partnership and Data to Action: In all Sales Clusters and regions ensure that there are dedicated price/profit reviews within the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) process. Templates, data, and guidelines should be sent appropriately and timely. Agree Price & Margin Evolution Targets per Country & Franchise. In collaboration with our SalesOps, setup Action Plans to ensure a significant impact on our price & margin evolution. Identify Sales Account & products which should targeted with actions for price and margin optimization and track the follow-up of the performance improvement.
- Pricing Management and Governance. Proper management of the operational pricing and profit topics. For example, ensure that the EMEA distributor pricing is revised and optimized, that List Prices and the approval levels are appropriated optimized. Manage the day-to-day management of the Price Book (additions, deletions, new products, requirements, user issues, training).
- Margin and Pricing forums. In alignment with the central EMEA CoE Pricing team, establish a dedicated set of meetings and forums where all divisional stakeholders evaluate the main pricing topics including but not limited to: Dealer Price Revision Plan for the following year, Floor Level Price Analysis & Update, List Price Analysis & Update, Recommended-Price geographical extension plans, Pricing CoE Initiative KPIs Evolution & Results, Pricing Analytics Evolution & Results, Scorecard analytics, Inflation impact. The success metric will be full participation in the process by both the marketing and sales teams.
- Optimize Approval workloads.Ensure that there a proper number of requests for approval being processes in all countries and for all hierarchy levels. If this is not the case, trigger workstreams with the different regions and accountable marketeers to adjust accordingly the approval levels.
- Perform pricing analyticsin support of ad-hoc, new product and annual price revisions and pricing programs &complete special analysis requests, upon request.
Role Requirements:
Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.