Lead Strategic Pricing Analyst

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

Bringing out the best in people

As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us.

Working At Dentsply Sirona You Are Able To

Develop faster - with our commitment to the best professional development.

Perform better - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture.

Shape an industry - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation.

Make a difference -by helping improve oral health worldwide.

Reporting to the Manager of Strategic Pricing, this role will be responsible for driving pricing guidance and strategy for Dentsply Sirona (DS), within its North American commercial organization. She or he will:
• Execute the team’s process-based approach to developing price guidance for assigned lines of business, including process development, threshold development, pricing grids, stakeholder alignment, testing, and piloting.
• Coordinate the annual price & contract review process for assigned Product Group(s)
• Work with Brand, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and other boundary partners to craft and evaluate pricing strategies and initiatives
• Provide pricing insights for approvals in complex negotiations, setting up price bundles, and promotions.
• Work with Brand Managers to develop strategically sound pricing and promotion initiatives.
• Identify areas to improve profitability through pricing, value delivery, and value capture
• Monitor pricing intelligence, workflows, and processes to drive insights and strategies that increase profitability.
• Monitor trends in product and sales price performance. Track accountabilities and interpret trending and analyses to provide strategic and execution recommendations, amend guidance, etc.
• Supply insights and relevant content for regular pricing reviews for the NAM CCO, assessing prior pricing decisions and assisting product and brand teams with pricing insights.
• Support development, implementation, and maintenance of a NAM Pricing Playbook(s) in collaboration with Sales, Brand Marketing, and other partners.
• Maintain a view of the competitive market and customer / patient engagement trends through a structured process involving global product and commercial partners
• Engage with brand managers and other commercial stakeholders to enhance a culture of data-driven rigor, accountability, and continuous improvement through a commitment to a data – analysis – discussion – trial – insight – re-trial – decision – rollout – refinement approach

Technical Responsibilities
• Aid in business strategy planning
• Build commercial frameworks for pilots and related commercial innovation approach
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes with inputs on pricing KPIs, market conditions, and strategy implications
• Create pricing models and analyses to support strategic initiatives
• Analyze complex and challenging data from multiple sources to provide actionable and timely pricing recommendations to management for decision making purposes
• Analyze & propose pricing strategies, monitor progress of opportunities for price improvement and continuous price optimization
• Help define pricing and promotion KPIs, evaluate and review market and competitive data
• Provide ad-hoc support for analysis, reporting and pricing tool/system development

Other Responsibilities
• Interface with cross-functional partners and Senior Management teams on pricing strategy development
• Instill culture, discipline, behavior, and supporting processes to foster an environment of ideation, testing, analysis, and refinement
• Provides data driven recommendations to manager resulting from appropriate analytics, reporting, and insights
• Maintain effective communication and coordination with all Commercial + Product Group pillar teams as well as Corporate Pillar’s Finance, Accounting, and Strategy teams to ensure proper alignment and application of strategic decisions
• Coordinate with operational groups such as Sales, Marketing, HR, IT, Finance, Sales Administration and Professional Services on cross-functional projects as necessary
• Engage with legal and compliance functions to ensure that pilots comply with relevant federal, state, and local regulations
• Evaluate current business practices and make recommendations for process improvements
• Develops/builds positive business relationships with customers (internal and external) on a daily basis

Education
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent from an accredited institution required; leading programs preferred
• MBA or similarly quantitative master’s degree from a leading institution greatly preferred
• PPS Certification preferred (Professional Pricing Society)

Years Of Experience
• 2+ years of pricing strategy or related commercial experience; or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience

Type Of Experience
• Knowledge / experience with B2B and B2B2C business models preferred
• Other roles focused on iterative improvement including entrepreneurship, start-up
• Client-facing, consulting, AND / OR internal strategic roles that directly impact company direction and customer relationships would be beneficial
• Experience in cross functional work groups and working with other departments / functions to execute projects
• Project management skills are a plus

Key Required Skills, Knowledge And Capabilities
• Design thinking aptitude (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test)
• Excellent analytical, organizational and critical thinking skills. Able to deftly complete the data-to-decision lifecycle (i.e. data à information à analysis à discussion à decision)
• Multidisciplinary (commercial, R&D, supply chain, finance, accounting, legal, etc.) appreciation for business issues
• Aggressive dedication to work product quality
• Thoughtful, team-first mentality
• Ability to respect and maintain the confidential nature of information collected, analyzed, and shared
• Proficiency in project management
• Knowledge in the design of reports and reporting strategies
• Advanced excel skills, familiarity with PowerBI/Tableau (preferred)
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to clearly communicate a vision, educate individuals and teams, and influence decisions
• Strong command of the English language – verbal and written
• High degree of integrity and ethics
• Knowledge of the methods and procedures involved in strategic business planning and management; knows or quickly learns the organization’s markets and products, key business process, distribution channels, key suppliers and industry competition
• Entrepreneurial and business owner mindset
• Portfolio management expertise
• This job may be performed remotely from anywhere in the United States.

Dentsply Sirona is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. We appreciate your interest in Dentsply Sirona.

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