Company Overview

Wherever you work and whatever role you fill, when you represent the Bridgestone name you know that you are a valued teammate who is part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality.” We start by offering each teammate more than just a salary. We provide formal training, competitive performance incentives, paid vacation and holidays, healthcare packages for full-time and part-time employees, and a 401k plan to help build your future.

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they are allowed to bring their whole selves to work and know they are supported. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. We are building a team as diverse as the world we serve. So, show us what you’re made of. Show us the smart stuff, the tough stuff, the bold, beautiful and brave stuff. Because who you are is what we need.

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee and is the U.S. subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone Americas and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

• Streamline strategic pricing initiatives
• Align pricing within our marginal goals by program, segment, customer
• Collaborate and recognize pricing strategies to support programs
• Track & document bid tabulations
• Improve price repository for competitive bidding resolution
• Collect and create pricing bids for initiation/renewal of contracts
• Develop RFP scorecard
• Provide dealer reports and business reviews for RFP requests
• Lead military program pricing and marketing support
• Support military base operative contracts at retail
• Partner with teams to improve retread support processes
• Complete and process retread dealer support
• Maintain support calculation tables
• Communicate RFP, RFQ and/or RFI requirements with appropriate internal cross functional teams to ensure that BATO is compliant and successful in maintaining awarded contracts and potential new contract awards
• Manage communications to the field sales teams related to government and utility leads
• Work collaboratively with Operations Manager and internal team to ensure our web tool is successful
• Prefer knowledge of contracts, specifically federal, Dept of Defense/DLA, state and local government.
• Needs to be highly excelled in system abilities and understanding including SAP, Microsoft Office tools- Excel, Tableau experience is preferred but not required
• Understand the business as such to manage the process of contract compliance -communicate pricing renewals, adjustments per contract parameters, update COI requirements, process and support administrative tasks related to contracts
• On-board new customers and support program adoption

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent work experience

Preferred:

• Bachelor: Business, Marketing, or related field or 10 years experience in operational role

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. It is our policy to consider for employment all individuals regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.