Lenovo

In this position, you will be act as a guardian of the P&L and Opportunity Consultant to the sales function, to provide bid review and commercial sign off within assigned delegation matrix, in order to drive sales and profit for Lenovo. Additionally, thru your coding skills you will be responsible to build and maintain reporting tools for the whole Pricing Team.

Responsibilities:

• Sign off on all deals within your delegation level while escalating to Profit Manager / CFO for sign off outside of delegation
• Conduct a detailed review of Customer requirement with the Sales teams, ensure appropriate pricing methodology is selected and profit maximized for each opportunity
• Maximize bid profitability through detailed understanding of component cost environment and roadmap – provide guidance to Sales on most economically advantageous offering
• Review product offering with Sales / Product managers to ensure Lenovo has a compliant offering, guard against adding additional cost from 'over configuring'
• Provide Sales teams with a response to commercial questions contained in Customer tenders / Lenovo response documents
• Thru SQL and VBA maintain existing tools and further improve the reporting capability of the Pricing Team
• Work with Profit Managers/Legal team to ensure any non-standard deals have had appropriate risk review and results have been factored into pricing decision making
• Financial modelling of opportunities in MS Excel format, applying appropriate cost adjustments
• Ensure Price setting has been approached with due diligence and is based upon known market requirement or precedence
• Think “outside of the box” to drive for innovative ways to increase profitability / win rates

You will report to EMEA Pricing Manager. You will participate in weekly collaborative planning calls and meetings.

What you’ll bring/ Position Requirements:

• 2-5 years of experience in pricing or in other financial analyst roles
• Fluent Business English (oral and written). Another European language is an advantage
• Excellent skills with standard software tools / systems (MS Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Power BI)
• Already gained experience working in a matrix organization, managing different stakeholders efficiently and simultaneously
• First experience already acquired with SQL code writing and/or VBA. In case only VBA knowledge is present then the willingness to learn SQL must be applicable
• Proven track record of delivering results in metrics - driven operational environment
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure to achieve the targets and meet the deadlines
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken)
• Strong planning and time management skills
• SAP S4 & MS Dynamics environment knowledge is advantageous
• Outstanding negotiation skill is beneficial
• Education in Finance / Accounting is a plus

What we offer:

• 3 sick days per year
• Additional vacation days
• 100% sick leave compensation up to 2 months per year
• A broad selection of soft and hard skills trainings and individual mentoring
• 1:1 contribution to the Third Pillar Pension System
• Home office flexibility upon team agreement

We give you opportunity to become part of a WW Finance Team (Center of Excellence). We enable you to influence the process design, bring your own ideas and implement improvements thru your coding skills and encourage you to build up your own reporting sets (SQL, VBA).

We are looking forward to discussing this position with you soon!