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

The role of the Pricing & Procurement Data Specialist is to partner with the Pricing Enablement Lead and Procurement Finance Lead in driving continuous improvements across the Pricing and Margin Management (PMM) and Procurement Finance functions and will be a key stakeholder in the finance team requiring effective communication and a high sense of accountability. 

 

In this role, the candidate will gain experience in end-to-end pricing and product costing through partnering with local pricing teams, R&D teams, procurement teams and this hands-on experience will ensure a strong understanding and foundation of Kerry products and pricing processes. The candidate will also have the opportunity to business partner with commercial teams and procurement teams to ensure competitive and environment market conditions are reflected in pricing and gain an understanding of competitor’s pricing, market changes, size of prize of the opportunity and customer cost-in-use which are key enablers to maximize the return from Kerry’s business model and value proposition.

 

Key stakeholders you will be dealing with in this role:
• APMEA PMM Finance Director
• Finance Business Partners (Various Sub-Regions)
• APMEA Pricing & CoE Enablement Lead
• Pricing Specialists and Strategic Pricing Leads
• Procurement Finance Lead - APMEA
• VP Procurement - APMEA
 

Work Location: 1 Powerhouse, Petaling Jaya (5 mins walk from MRT Bandar Utama) 

Reporting to: Pricing & COE Enablement Lead – APMEA

Key responsibilities

 

 

Pricing Responsibilities:

• Preparation of a central mass pricing cost change files by customer and product for the entire Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa Region (APMEA).
• Preparation of insights and reporting on the mass pricing exercise to update the PMM Finance Director and APMEA CFO on pricing progress.
• Co-ordinate inputs from Operations and Procurement Functions with regards to raw material, freight, and factory overhead inflationary impacts to ensure Kerry Group’s margin is protected.
• Ensure pricing contracts are loaded accurately and timely in line with pricing windows to ensure no disruption to customer supply.
• Test and monitor any design changes in terms of SAP, Vendavo, Salesforce or other platforms relating to the pricing function to ensure the region is staying abreast with digital enhancements to drive efficiencies within the pricing function.
• Preparation of daily/monthly operational KPIs, to be shared with APMEA PMM Finance Director and Senior Business Stakeholders to measure and drive business performance.

 

 

Procurement Responsibilities:

• Deliver timely and accurate procurement financial information and analysis to the key stakeholders within the region and to the group.
• Measurement and reporting of key functional KPIs to Procurement functional stakeholders including regional category buyers and regional/global Finance teams.
• Change agent in move towards automation and digitalization in terms of reporting across Procurement, Pricing and Margin Management.
• Preparation, review and analyse our monthly Raw Materials Market and Contract pricing report / metrics together with the Procurement and PMM Finance Team; to enable right decision making.
• Lead and monitor projects/activities to ensure the procurement reporting systems maintain a high degree of data integrity.
• Preparation of monthly Profit Improvement Program (PIP) reporting which will be used to analyse profit enhancements from the various programs across R&D, Operations and Procurement.

 

Additional Responsibilities to be performed as required:

• Implement and maintain order management in SAP, being the gatekeeper to ensure orders are priced right the first time and accurately to avoid any supply disruptions as well as maintaining optimum service levels to customer.
• Deliver, implement and maintain relevant and competitive intercompany pricing align group policies and local statutory guidelines.

Qualifications and skills

 

• Preferably a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Finance, Management Accounting, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or related field.
• Preferably 3-5 years of working experience, in a Multi-national company and environment.
• Good to have relevant experience in Pricing, Margin Management, FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis),Commercial Finance or Operations Finance is beneficial.
• Project Management skills
• Experience in process improvement and standardization.
• Proficiency in SAP or another ERP system experience is beneficial.
• Advance Excel skills, knowledge of Power Query is a plus and proficiency in, Word, and PowerPoint (MS Suites).
• Experience with statistical analysis and tools (R, Python, etc.).
• Effective and strong communicator, comfortable interacting with confidence across a wide range of stakeholders.
• Must have strong attention to detail skills.
• Independent and self-motivated achiever.
• Results/solutions driven and able to challenge status quo and drive improvement.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to prioritize competing demands and work on own initiative.
• Agility to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment.
• Effective communication skills to convey complex analysis results to non-technical stakeholders.