Cable builder system, SAP, Vendavo, JBA, Windows, Microsoft word, Excel and Survey Monkey
CEBISA MTATI
Pricing Specialist
Glenvista
Summary
Result-oriented and knowledgeable Pricing Specialist with 8+ years of extensive experience and comprehensive background in implementing and executing all price adjustments, and collecting and analyzing data. Possessing excellent analytical skills, strong attention to detail and accuracy, and important time management abilities.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Pricing Specialist
Weir Minerals
06.2021 - Current
- Responsible for SA,ROA and IC region
- Prepare contract increase calculations and motivation for increases with all supporting documentation, to enable increase implementation in time, ensuring maximum margin benefit;
- Conducting quarterly pricing review and updating price lists for all our imported items
- Costing and margin evaluation per item to track percentage movement and impact on customers increase supplied
- Implementation of weighted impact (both rate of exchange & inflation) on volume discount increments
- Price and cost sales analysis on a monthly basis
- Calculate selling prices for SA,ROA and Intercompany
- Use sales trends to recommend pricing policy adjustments to management
- Ensure correct margins applied in pricing
- Transfer Pricing for foreign subsidiaries forming part of the group of companies
- Assist with the maintenance of appropriate margins
- Full accountability and ownership for Company “Sales Master” within the department
- Calculating, capturing and updating of price list as per allocated responsibilities;
- Calculate selling prices for SA,ROA and Intercompany
- Making sure Cost loaded on the system is accurate, rate of exchange, surcharges and material cost applied correctly to allocate the correct currency
- Uploading and maintaining prices on the system
- Responsible for Quoting our Branches (150 branches - globally)
- Build and maintain existing price models
- Contract and non-contract customer margin trend analysis and recommendations;
- Liaise with key account managers, branch structure and external customers regarding contractual issues within your region
- Liaise with the supply chain department to get supplier prices
- Investigate, escalate and resolve all price queries
- Update and maintain contract data base for allocated responsibilities;
- Process part data request to get new parts loaded on the system
- Interact with relevant product Managers and addressing concerning matters
- Compiling scheduled reports as well as ad-hoc reports for manager
Senior Tender & Pricing Specialist
Aberdare Cables (Pty) Ltd
07.2016 - 05.2021
- Even Distribution of tenders, quotations & enquiries amongst employees
- Checking and verification of completed documentation
- Ensure tender & quotation deadlines are met by employees
- Provide pricing on specialized items that are not included by pricelist in the absence of the National Tender Manager
- Ensure that the tender register is up to date
- Coordinate and respond to all enquiries for formal sector customers
- Obtain market information and pricing which may influence and assist in the securing of relevant tenders and enquiries
- Analyze and review tender results and extract relevant market intelligence
- Establish and maintain contact with the formal sector to obtain information on current and future projects
- Complete all Tenders / Enquiries received from the Formal sector in conjunction with the Local & Export Tender Manager
- To ensure that all tenders and quotations are completed timeously, offering the most competitive pricing in the mutual interest of Aberdare and customer
- Submit certificates of awareness to the factories technical and costing departments when required
- Ensure that both costing and technical information is timeously received in order to submit comprehensive and commercially sound offers
- Prepare costing and tender schedules as required
- Assisting sales teams with quotes based on system costs
- Ensure all pricing is logged on a daily basis and can be tracked against orders as well as determine market levels
- Create departmental templates & monthly reports to provide monthly figures for pricing & marketing meetings
- Assist Contracts (Admin) Department by creating new contracts as well as resolving contract-pricing problems
- Supervise and guide the commercial learners that have been designated to the tender department
- Support and mentor with regards to the work performance and work habits
- Assisting with relevant tasks and training as and when required
- Monitor and keep track of possible leads
- Liaison with branches and sales reps to gain customer / market intel
- Accurate reporting and maintain data integrity
- Track quotations and confirming supplier offers, including CPA, fixed pricing, validity, A &B Schedules and equipment brochures
- Prepare Track costs and contracts throughout the projects and ensure accurate costing for tenders
- Calculation of price adjustments, Value added and gross margin
- Develop, validate costing & quotations for the entire process of the cable projects
- Obtaining Freight Forwarding quotations in accordance with relevant Work Instructions
- In charge and supervise the mailbox and share drive for Local & Exports enquiries.
Pricing and Tenders Analyst
Medtronic Africa (Pty) Ltd
09.2014 - 06.2016
- Prepare, update and maintain the required Master Price list increases based on budgeted percentage increase and obtain the required authorization from the Board of directors
- Maintain and update the Customer pricing files in respect to Price Increases and decreases, new product launches and obtain the necessary sign off by the Regional, National Buyers and or MD
- Ensuring new accounts are set up correctly and negotiated prices with the customers are in line with the guide lines set out and agreed to by Senior Management
- Assisting in ensuring that all price changes are authorized and approved in accordance with price controls and policy
- Investigate all pricing discrepancies identified through the Customer Service System and obtain rectification timeously to prevent further discrepancies and making sure that all pricing credit noted have been processed prior to the issuance of the Customers Statement
- Checking and releasing orders due to price override as instructed by Product Manager and Sales and Marketing team
- Creating, amending deals and contracts on Vendavo and SAP
- Track contract compliance and Generating reports on Vendavo and SAP to communicate potential actions to the BU pricing leaders and to the sales organization
- Provide business support in the form of set up and maintenance of all pricing in Vendavo and SAP platforms
- Measure and report on the adherence to the department's service level agreement with internal customers - sales / marketing / customer care - and external customers - MediKredit / Order Logistics / key hospital groups
- Support the European pricing strategists in clarifying and performing ad hoc pricing analysis assignments while maintaining strong working relationship with the EMEA pricing administration team
- Assisting in updating all customer contracts (discount) and make sure they are loaded correctly on the system at all times but especially with annual increase
- Maintenance of the pricing as well as being able to prepare electronic price files for Medi-kredit, Key Hospital Groups and other Customers
- Prepare Nappi codes for submission, ensuring that Product Managers submit requests for NAPPI codes on new products on Medikredit
- Preparing and update RFQ's for Government Hospitals, private hospitals and SADC quotations
- Sourcing, gathering, administration and preparing of tenders
- COMPANY NAME The Human Resources Practice
Operations Administrator
04.2012 - 05.2014
- General office administration
- Manage Manager's diary from time to time
- Maintain, update, Capture and record all tender's client/vendor/consultant/learner databases and capture delegates results
- Getting study material ready, making sure, they are delivered to the facilitator, and communicating with facilitators regarding their sections
- Make telephone calls to clients/consultants/delegates to follow up outstanding
- Information
- Supplier and vendor registrations - looking for opportunities, completion of forms,
- Tracking
- Assist with tenders and Complete forms with standard information and type tender related letters, Typing, faxing, photocopying, laminating and binding of documents
- Conduct surveys on Survey Monkey
- Manage and maintain a filing system and the document tracking system
- Make and print out certificates for delegates
- Help with the recruitment process, Search for CV's on sites, Re-type CV's for clients, arrange, and set up interviews.
Administrator
Open Learning Group
08.2011 - 03.2012
- Keep records of financial statements and Create reports
- Prepare proposals, quotations and client correspondence
- Registering and booking students on the Netcare system and eVision for the Assessments and exams
- Conduct and complete surveys in a variety of ways that can include collection of data via sms, verbally (telephone calls) and client's visits
- Transcription of data from source documents of variable quality and verification of
- Work of others
- Capture invoices and orders accurately
- Administration of various data captures facilities and dealing with delivery post
- Dealing with customer complaints
- Filing of all the work done and Personnel file maintenance
Customer Service Executive
MTN
12.2008 - 05.2011
- Inbound call Centre
- Respond to customer enquiries and provide first call resolution
- Support and provide superior service via phones, e-mails as a receiver and caller
- Effectively deal with job stress, angry callers, and upset customers
- Apply the proper telephonic etiquette to satisfy various customers' situations to effectively control a telephone call.
Education
Bcom - Financial Management
Mancosa
Johannesburg 06.2019 - 07.2023
Management And Administration
Institute of Chartered Secretaries
Durban 01.2006 - 11.2008
Higher Certificate - Economic And Management Sciences
Unisa
Johannesburg 01.2016 - 11.2018
Skills
Sales Data AnalysisCustomer InteractionPricing ChangesPricing StrategiesPricing QuotesAnalyse Customer TrendsCOMPUTER LITERACY
Software
Timeline
Pricing Specialist
Weir Minerals
06.2021 - Current
Bcom - Financial Management
Mancosa
06.2019 - 07.2023
Senior Tender & Pricing Specialist
Aberdare Cables (Pty) Ltd
07.2016 - 05.2021
Higher Certificate - Economic And Management Sciences
Unisa
01.2016 - 11.2018
Pricing and Tenders Analyst
Medtronic Africa (Pty) Ltd
09.2014 - 06.2016
Operations Administrator
04.2012 - 05.2014
Administrator
Open Learning Group
08.2011 - 03.2012
Customer Service Executive
MTN
12.2008 - 05.2011
Management And Administration
Institute of Chartered Secretaries
01.2006 - 11.2008