Pricing & Profitability Lead

We are looking for a Pricing & Profitability Lead to join the Europe Regional Finance team to support driving business performance in Europe by delivering significant improvements in profitability analysis and overall reporting capability. This role, reporting to the Finance Director - Europe Insights and Projects, will drive improvements in our analysis to deliver enhanced pricing decisions, processes, and insights across the region, as well as lead the embedding of profitability and pricing committees across the region. Responsibilities include:

• Lead the embedding of pricing committees and profitability improvement actions throughout Europe, partnering with the countries to do so
• Lead a review of Europe's current pricing controls to gain a thorough understanding of the position of each country
• Guide managers in implementing improvements in controls
• Contribute to the development of a roadmap for Europe profitability improvements
• Review, assess and advise on the European profitability model in comparison to the UK and other regions
• Lead on driving improvements that will contribute to better controls, governance, insight, and usage of profitability models
• Assist countries, through analysis, of actions they could undertake to improve margin
• Maintain monthly reporting dashboards
• Partner with countries and other key stakeholders in closing the loop from profitability analysis to quoting tools
• Conduct training and knowledge sharing across European teams
• Undertake monthly pricing reporting and analysis, including identification of risks and opportunities and partner with countries to implement or develop solutions as relevant
• Review current pricing reporting across Europe and look for opportunities to automate and improve - especially in relation to price within Gross Sales, Job and Product, on API, and on discounting/Price Erosion