Senior Consumer Strategic Pricing Analyst

Company Overview

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Sales, Marketing & Product ManagementThe Senior Consumer Strategic Pricing Analyst will support and help drive transactional and strategic excellence for Consumer Pricing team, with primary focus around supporting Government Sales and B2B groups as well as management of some reporting and analytics around grey market activity. You will develop and execute collaborative efforts to ensure pricing initiatives, both transactional and strategic, are delivered successfully through critical analytics, close collaboration with key business stakeholders, and high level of responsiveness to market changes on a strong platform of executional/operational excellence.

• Key representative for pricing function in understanding intent of pricing programs/deals and how to establish in all relevant systems.
• Develop strong working knowledge of SAP system, primarily pricing and the billing types/conditions.
• Critical liaison with Price Administration team to establish best practices for transactional pricing excellence.
• Establish robust, repeatable, and sustainable audit processes to ensure invoice accuracy
• Become subject matter expert in understanding how all relevant internal systems impact pricing and how to optimize.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in the pricing area by suggesting/implementing changes to current processes and strategies to enable agile/flexible responses to transactional needs.
• Manage and deliver day to day transactional pricing responsibilities for Consumer Pricing.
• Develop, manage and execute various communications related to pricing, collaborating with different functional areas and utilizing different tools and systems.
• Work collaboratively with multiple teams across various channels within the Consumer division. Primary focus will be to support Government Sales team and B2B groups.

• Strong process development skills with ability to interpret and communicate business impact of process changes
• Excellent analytical skills with ability to source relevant data, create clear/concise decision models, interpret analytic results and make recommendations/provide actionable insights
• Knowledge of ERP systems
• Highly collaborative and agile
• Understanding of pricing/cost/margin decisions on company profitability
• Strong organizational agility to enhance cross-functional communication and collaboration
• Ability to communicate with all levels of organization
• Excellent leader of self skills

Preferred Educational and/or Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business related area or relevant job experience
• 5 years in related job preferred

At Bridgestone, you are Free to Be

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they bring their whole self to work. 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 are made of, because who you are is what we need.

What we offer

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• A diverse and inclusive team.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity 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.