About this role
Requisition ID 67638
Position Type FT Permanent
Workplace Arrangement #LI-Onsite
About Kerry
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
About the role
Location
Istanbul, Turkiye
Reporting to
Finance Director
This role will lead pricing and commercial finance activities by ensuring accurate pricing, optimizing margins, managing financial risks, and providing data-driven insights to support profitable business growth. Partner cross-functionally with Commercial, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, and regional teams to strengthen pricing strategy, forecasting, profitability, and process efficiency while developing the pricing team’s capabilities.
Key responsibilities
- Ensuring accurate and timely response to pricing requests.
- Assist commercial team to support, develop and maintain catalogue price list for standard products i.e CP and quarterly pricing for commodity products.
- Working across departments to enable joined up decision making based on financial data, ensuring that the decision makers in the business understand the financial implications of their decision.
- Evaluating rebate and discount requests by the sales team, to ensure that volumes set for qualifying incentives will improve margins and grow the business.
- Providing financial support to the sales and operations team for any commercial projects they want to undertake, making sure that the projects the teams bring in are profitable and will grow the business.
- Risk and contingency analysis and identifying areas of potential risk threatening profitability, example exchange rates movements, taxes and supply chain constraints, that may affect future profitability.
- Review and analyse inventory and margin reports, conduct research on causes in margin variances, through performing analytical studies regarding cost changes between time of pricing and actual sales and reporting.
- Driving improvements and efficiencies within the global structure, by identifying and negotiating the transfer prices that are too high that will impact the local sites profitability.
- Develop the capability of the pricing analyst that will be your direct reports.
- Review of business performance and provide recommendations on strategic direction.
- Implementing the annual price increase process, ensuring that the sales team receive the price increase letters within the customers set timelines.
- Works with the Regional PMM lead and wider team providing input into the overall pricing strategy and executing against it.
- Part of the decision-making process for margin deviation and currency / raw material coverage.
- Improve quality and accuracy across the end-to-end Price setting process.
- Liaise with key business contacts in various departments, ensuring efficiencies in supply chain.
- Own the budgeting and forecasting for their area for with relation to Revenue, Cost and Margin.
- Partnering with Commercial Teams to drive AR collections.
Qualifications and skills
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Management Accounting.
- 4-6 years’ relevant experience in Pricing, Margin Management, FP&A, Commercial Finance or Operations Finance.
- Relevant Pricing and Margin Management/ Product Costing experience within FMCG industry is very beneficial.
- Fluent and confident English communicator.
- SAP or another ERP system experience.
- Project Management skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (advance Excel, Word and PowerPoint).
- A team player and a relationship builder with strong communications skills to work with multiple stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail is critical.
- Comfortable with autonomy and proactive in approach.
- Results/solutions driven and able to challenges status quo and drives improvement.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Focus on improvement and standardization of processes.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and adapt to dynamic work environment.
Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.
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