Category Pricing Manager
2 days ago
**Category Pricing Manager**
**LKQ Europe**
**Home Based**
**ROLE OVERVIEW**:
Working closely with the 5 regions and 20 countries across Europe, the Category Pricing Manager is responsible for driving the category pricing strategy and new initiatives, harmonizing pricing processes, optimizing price positions, implementing price corridors,and driving margin improvement. Furthermore, this role will be a key contributor to achieving our growth and profitability goals.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
- Implementing the pricing strategy for the assigned categories and collaborating with product management, marketing and regional pricing heads
- Researching and preparing information on key developments with regards to performance, market prices, margins and trends for senior management presentations
- Leading the strategic margin performance review for the respective categories
- Translating positioning into optimized prices per brand, group and product category
- Supporting the Head of Product Category as a 'Pricing Business Partner’
- Ensuring timely implementation of price revisions to safeguard margin targets and drive margin improvement initiatives
- Reviewing and tracking regional adherence to product positioning and defined corridors
- Challenging purchase prices relative to margins
- Serving as the point of contact for the category relating to standard reports, market benchmarking, competitiveness and initiatives
- Helping to build a mindset and culture that fosters innovation and inspires colleagues to challenge and change the status quo
**KEY AND DESIRED SKILLS**:
- Significant pricing and revenue management experience within automotive after-market, industrial components, spare parts or related industries
- Degree in business, engineering, data analytics, finance or similar discipline
- Experience in managing large number of SKUs (200k+) in a multi-national environment
- Excellent communicator and self-starter
- Team player focused on building effective solutions to complex problems
- Experienced user of BI tools including dashboard development and statistical modelling methods
- Professional English is required. Italian, German or other European languages are an advantage
- Ability to travel up to 20% within Europe
LKQ Euro Car Parts sits at the heart of the automotive aftermarket, supplying an unrivalled range of vehicle parts to over 18,000 customers through a world-class logistics operation in the UK and Ireland. But we’re so much more than just a parts supplier
- we lead the market through innovative digital and service offerings, supporting our customers every step of the way as they prepare for the future.
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