Pricing Specialist

Zimmer Biomet seeks a Pricing Specialist to optimise pricing strategies and manage pricing systems across EMEA, with a focus on the Italian market. The role involves collaborating with Sales, Finance, and Tender Teams to drive revenue growth, ensuring compliance with pricing policies, and maintaining accurate pricing documentation. Key responsibilities include pricing governance, pricing analysis, public price indexation, and dashboard creation. Candidates should have experience in pricing operations, preferably within Med Tech or healthcare, a bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Law, or a related field, and strong English skills. Proficiency in SAP, CPQ, and Microsoft Excel is highly valued. The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple deadlines in a dynamic environment.

Zimmer Biomet, a global leader in medical technology, is seeking a highly skilled Pricing Specialist to join its EMEA Italian team. This role is pivotal in optimising pricing strategies, managing pricing systems, and ensuring accuracy and consistency across Zimmer Biomet products. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Finance, and Tender Teams, to drive revenue growth and maximise profitability. The position offers opportunities for professional development, a flexible working environment, and location-specific competitive rewards. The Pricing Specialist will play a key role in maintaining pricing governance, compliance, and operational excellence, contributing to Zimmer Biomet’s mission of enhancing patient mobility worldwide.

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered and recognised.

What You Can Expect

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Pricing Specialist to join our team. As a Pricing Specialist, you will play a crucial role in optimizing our pricing strategies, managing pricing systems and processes, and ensuring accuracy and consistency in pricing across Zimmer Biomet in EMEA focusing on the Italian Market. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Finance, and Tender Teams, to drive revenue growth and maximize profitability. This is an excellent opportunity for an analytical professional with a passion for pricing and operational excellence.

How You'll Create Impact

• Pricing Governance and Compliance
• Pricing Operations Management
• Pricing Analysis Management
• Public Price Indexation

On a Daily Basis You Will Communication with Public Customers and Price Analysis

• Collect and organize Tender pricing documentation.
• Formalize deals with Public Customers ensuring compliance with Zimmer Biomet pricing policies.
• Manage price indexation activities for Public Customers, assessing contractual and tender provisions to identify opportunities for price increases in accordance with applicable regulations and contractual terms.
• Prepare and submit price indexation requests, coordinating with internal stakeholders and monitoring the approval process until completion
• Maintain accurate documentation of indexation requests, outcomes, and supporting evidence.
• Build effective relationships with Public Customers and internal teams to facilitate the successful execution of price indexation initiatives.
• Create dashboards of Pricing KPIs to measure pricing performance and instill a culture of analysis, learning and improvement
• Monitor sales data, run analyses, track changes in pricing data and quantify impact of price, volume and mix into price variances

Pricing Ops

• Maintain pricing conditions in SAP by creating new prices and implementing pricing adjustments.
• Manage Pricing Master Data, including data cleansing activities (obsolete, inactive, or restricted products) and validation of pricing inputs.
• Maintain and continuously improve pricing systems, tools, and processes to ensure accurate and efficient pricing execution.
• Monitor pricing-related processes in SAP, identify any issues or discrepancies, and resolve them efficiently
• Regularly review and update pricing information in the system, ensuring accuracy and consistency across all channels and platforms
• Ensure compliance with pricing policies, thresholds of pricing approval escalation process, legal requirements, and industry regulations
• Monitor and enforce pricing controls and procedures to prevent pricing errors
• Collaborate with other teams to define and implement pricing rules, guidelines, and procedures

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience in pricing-related operations, preferably within the Med Tech or healthcare industry.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Law, or a related field.
• Strong written and verbal command of English.
• Experience working with SAP and pricing/configuration tools (e.g., CPQ) is considered a strong advantage.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience working with master data

Your Background

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Knowledge of SAP and CPQ is preferred.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with complex structures and datasets
• Excellent attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Team player with a high degree of flexibility and responsiveness
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and a "can-do" mindset.
• Persistence and resilience in managing long and complex administrative processes
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and follow up on activities requiring extensive coordination.

Travel Expectations

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability

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Responsibilities:

• Responsible for optimising pricing strategies and managing pricing systems and processes across Zimmer Biomet in EMEA, focusing on the Italian Market.
• Play a key role in shaping pricing governance and compliance, including public price indexation and ensuring adherence to pricing policies.
• Help drive innovation in pricing operations management, including communication with public customers and price analysis.
• Take ownership of collecting and organising tender pricing documentation and formalising deals with public customers to ensure compliance.
• Deliver high-quality management of price indexation activities, preparing and submitting requests, and maintaining accurate documentation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to build effective relationships with public customers and internal teams, facilitating successful execution of price indexation initiatives.
• Lead efforts to create dashboards of pricing KPIs, measure pricing performance, and instil a culture of analysis and improvement.
• Monitor sales data, run analyses, and quantify the impact of price, volume, and mix into price variances.
• Maintain pricing conditions in SAP by creating new prices, implementing adjustments, and updating pricing information.
• Ensure compliance with pricing policies, thresholds, legal requirements, and industry regulations, and monitor and enforce pricing controls and procedures.

Skills:

• Experience in pricing-related operations, preferably within the Med Tech or healthcare industry, is essential.
• Strong written and verbal command of English is required.
• Experience working with SAP and pricing/configuration tools such as CPQ is considered a strong advantage.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience working with master data are necessary.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills are required.
• Knowledge of SAP and CPQ is preferred.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with complex structures and datasets, are essential.
• Excellent attention to detail and data accuracy is required.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and coordinate extensive activities are necessary.
• A proactive, solution-oriented, and resilient approach, with persistence and flexibility, is expected.

Education:

• A Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Law, or a related field is required.