Global Senior Manager Pricing

ABOUT FILTRONA Filtrona is the only global, independent market leader in the design, testing and manufacturing of specialist filter solutions, tear tapes and related scientific services. With a head office in Singapore, Filtrona has 9 manufacturing facilities across Europe, America, and Asia, together with 2 innovation centres, an accredited laboratory and a centre of excellence focused on sustainability. The company has over 2000 employees serving customers across 120 countries. Our purpose is to support partners to transform and benefit from business growth; we succeed when they succeed. Our mission is to be a responsible, customer-focused innovation leader creating excellence in sustainable solutions for today and tomorrow. For more information, please visit ROLE OVERVIEW The Senior Manager, Pricing & Product Management is a critical driver of Filtrona's commercial performance and one of the core levers of value creation for the global business. This elevated role expands the remit beyond pricing management into global pricing strategy, product lifecycle stewardship, digital enablement and portfolio-driven commercial optimisation. The role leads the global pricing governance framework, accelerates quotation turnaround to best-in-class standards, integrates product servicing index (PSI) and customer segmentation into price logic, and anchors pricing as a strategic capability within Filtrona. Beyond pricing, the role brings product insight into margin optimisation, portfolio competitiveness and NPI readiness, partnering closely with Sales, Finance, Operations, NPI teams, Supply Chain and Innovation. ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Pricing Strategy & Governance Lead the global governance for all pricing activities, including new pricing requests, annual price reviews, cost pass-through, discount structures, trade terms and margin control. Ensure pricing decisions deliver targeted margins across TLAs/product families while maintaining competitive benchmarks aligned to customer segmentation. Strengthen global governance through integration of PSI, cost-to-serve logic, customer segmentation and product family-linked premium pricing. Drive continuous improvement through win/loss tracking, price realization analysis and margin variance monitoring. 2. Digitalisation, Automation & Pricing Systems (CPQ, SAP)Oversee the global usage of the pricing portal (CPQ), ensuring digitised workflows, automated approvals, aligned costing inputs and strong governance. Lead SAP × CPQ integration to achieve CPT Automation in SAP: Implement automated CPT calculation, margin checks and customer alerts for below-threshold performance. Peer Pricing & CPQ Add-On: Develop methodology to adjust historical peer prices for market price evolution and embed the logic into CPQ, supported by a BI tool for sales teams. Drive digital enablement of pricing through automation of cost inputs, volume brackets, rate cards, scenario modelling and error-proofing. Migrate the Master Price List from Excel to SAP, establishing a standardised price list structure and building the link between CPQ quote closure and SAP records. 3. Product & Portfolio Commercial Management Work closely with Innovation and Sales to ensure pricing supports product lifecycle priorities, competitiveness, margin targets and customer value propositions. Provide portfolio insights on product margin drift, cost evolution, competitiveness trends and commercial performance across global markets. Ensure NPI readiness by integrating pricing logic, cost assumptions, sample protocols, PSI factors and CPQ configuration before product launch. Own the commercial governance for samples, including pricing of sample requests, sample tracking, NPI samples and lead-time standards. 4. Commercial Analytics, Predictive Modelling & BI Champion advanced analytics, predictive modelling and BI dashboards to support data-driven pricing and portfolio decisions. Build analytical frameworks for PSI-weighted pricing, peer pricing adjustments, auto-calculated price recommendations and margin alerts. Create modelling frameworks, spot-order pricing formulas, changeover cost allocation and wastage cost structures. Lead pricing business cases, scenario modelling and financial justification discussions with Finance, Sales and the ELT. 5. Commercial Partnering & Stakeholder Leadership Partner closely with Sales, Finance, Product, Operations, Innovation, Supply chain, NPI to align pricing and product-related decisions with commercial strategy, portfolio priorities and financial targets. Support key tenders with pricing strategy, peer benchmarks, commercial storytelling and internal governance. Communicate pricing logic, policies, approvals and portfolio insights clearly to internal teams and ensure strong regional adoption through training and engagement. QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS Degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Engineering or related field. 13–15 years' experience in commercial finance, pricing, product or portfolio strategy (B2B industrial or chemicals preferred). Demonstrated experience leading pricing strategy, pricing operations and/or product management at scale. Strong analytical and modelling capability; expert in Excel, proficient in PowerPoint and BI tools. Excellent written and spoken English. PREFERRED SKILLS Strong commercial acumen with strategic thinking capability. Highly analytical, data-driven and structured. Excellent stakeholder management across Sales, Finance, Ops and Product. Strong project leadership experience, able to drive adoption and behavioural change. Effective communicator able to simplify complexity. High integrity, resilience, energy and a hands‐on leadership approach. Comfortable managing multiple concurrent projects in a global environment. Skilled in working with multicultural and geographically distributed teams. Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem‐solving environment Ability to self‐start and self‐motivate #J-18808-Ljbffr