Pricing Process & Solutions Lead

Pricing Process & Solutions Lead
Location: UK, Hybrid (Manchester, Corby or London)

As part of a global, strategic transformation programme, you will prepare RS for successful outcomes in Process & Operational Excellence related to Pricing.

You'll collaborate with stakeholders across the business to implement a standardised, scalable end-to-end pricing solution, incorporating systems, data and processes enabled by technology, ensuring alignment across regional teams. 

To achieve this you will bridge a stakeholder community within the P&OE portfolio, across the Pricing Community of Practice, Global Process Owners, Data Teams, Technology (IS&T) and Product & Supply Chain.

The  role will also work with the broader P&SC Delivery team to identify pricing elements for the Enterprise Roadmap that are not incorporated in P&OE roadmap eg Price FX, CPQ

You will ensure pricing strategies are supported by efficient, scalable, and data-driven processes, enabling consistent execution, improved margin performance, and enhanced commercial agility

Responsibilities:

Pricing Process Design & Optimisation

• Design end-to-end pricing processes from strategy through execution (quote-to-cash alignment) working with the P&OE team and the pricing community of practise
• Embed pricing into standard GTM & O2C processes and order structures 
• Eliminate manual workarounds and reduce pricing-related errors 
• Ensure pricing processes support scalable growth and automation 
• Lead the end-to-end design, standardisation, and continuous improvement of pricing processes 
• Identify inefficiencies and implement streamlined workflows to reduce cycle times and improve accuracy. 
• Establish scalable process & data frameworks that support global and regional pricing need

Pricing Systems & Tools

• Take ownership for resolving outstanding pricing areas linked to P&OE, as identified through the pricing tooling strategy including creation and sign off of relevant KDDs
• Resolve any outstanding questions raised that need to be resolved before SAP 4 Design work commence
• Work across the P&OE programme to ensure effective implementation and optimisation of pricing tools in P&OE (e.g. ERP pricing modules), including change management
• Ensure pricing logic is system-driven, not manually applied 
• Partner with all regional teams and the Community of Practise to align on design and process outcomes
• Ensure systems are aligned with business requirements to drive convergence across Regions
• Partner with IT to: 
  o    Understand fit to standard solutions, and links to process
  o    Understand how other pricing tools will interface into SAP 4
  o    Understand and provide options to Community of Practice in relation to Vistex Solution
  o    Ensure Future roadmap for linked pricing tools eg PriceFX, pricing analytics tools (not within P&OE scope) and work with P&SC portfolio to ensure these are fed into the Enterprise Roadmap and 5 year organic investment plan
• Enable robust data flows and structures to support pricing decisions and reporting. 
• Partner with analytics teams to embed advanced pricing models, insights, and dashboards into processes

What we are looking for from you:

Functional Expertise 

• Deep experience in pricing strategy, commercial operations, or revenue management 
• Experience with Quote-to-Cash / Order-to-Cash processes 
• Process design and continuous improvement expertise (Lean, Six Sigma desirable) 
• Strong analytical capability and data-driven mindset 
• Project and programme management experience 

Technology & Systems 

• Experience with pricing tools/systems (e.g., CPQ, ERP, pricing engines) 
• Strong understanding of pricing automation and system integration 

Analytical Capability 

• Strong commercial acumen with ability to analyse margin and pricing performance 
• Data-driven decision making 

Stakeholder Leadership 

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills within commercial environments 
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions 
• Change leadership and transformation delivery capability 
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills 
• Strong cross-functional collaboration (Sales, Finance, Product, IT) 
• Experience driving standardisation in complex, multi-region organisations 
• Strong governance and change management capability 

We are RS Group.

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.  
Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.  

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 800,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.  

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.  

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. 

Come and join us and over 9000 employees worldwide – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

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