Analyst, Material Pricing

Celestica • Maple Grove, MN

156d

About The Position

The Analyst, Material Pricing manages material pricing for regional/global customers within a specific market segment, ensuring competitive pricing solutions to support growth and margins. This role involves managing multiple projects and support employees, collaborating with various teams to determine pricing strategies, and preparing pricing solutions for new business opportunities and ongoing product lifecycles. Responsibilities include conducting cost analysis, providing negotiation insights, presenting solutions to stakeholders, performing trend analysis and modeling, conducting market research, and driving continuous improvement in margin expansion and pricing competitiveness. The role requires strong systems skills, SCM expertise, technical inclination, and excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, along with the ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering.
• 1 to 3 years of applicable experience.
• Costing/pricing experience in the market segment including industry pricing, technology and market trends.
• Strong systems skills, including common office platforms such as MS Office and Access.
• SCM expertise with an understanding of finance and supply chain.
• Technically inclined with the ability to read BTP drawings.
• Good communication, negotiation, presentation, client management and influence skills.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks.

Responsibilities

• Manage material pricing for regional/global customers for a specific market segment.
• Deliver competitive material pricing solutions to support growth and margins as per company objectives.
• Manage multiple projects across 10+ support employees per project.
• Collaborate with global customer unit, customer, program management, business proposal lead, finance and/or sales to determine material pricing strategy.
• Align on trade-offs between proposal cycle-time, solution precision and scope with clients to deliver agreed to pricing strategy.
• Project manage supply chain solution with commodity management, costing teams, engineering teams to deliver desired pricing and margin solutions.
• Prepare material pricing solutions for new business opportunities (bids) and manage ongoing pricing through the lifecycle of the product (re-pricing).
• Provide insight and recommendations to support external negotiations.
• Present proposed solution to key stakeholders.
• Perform take-down trends analysis and modeling to leverage insight in service requests.
• Conduct market research and generate product teardowns to enable competitiveness assessments in service request.
• Provide supply chain internal or external consulting/solutioning.
• Provide value engineer proposals.
• Develop annual material margin build-up plan, obtain alignment with key stakeholders and proactively project manage during the year.
• Consolidate, tabulate, analyze and report on various commitment and performance metrics as per reporting schedule.
• Proactively drive continuous improvement in margin expansion, cycle-time, pricing competitiveness, pricing tactics and process efficiency.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree