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Special Bid Pricing is a team of trusted Pricing advisors supporting special bids with focus on maximizing profit and revenue growth. Team is supporting Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) across NA and LA GEOs, cooperating closely with sales teams, channel, Insisde Sales Support and Profit Management. In this position, you will act as a guardian of the P&L and Opportunity Consultant to the sales function, to provide bid review and commercial sign off within assigned delegation matrix, in order to drive sales and profit for Lenovo.
These are your detailed responsibilities:
• Sign off on all deals within your delegation level while escalating to Profit Manager / CFO for sign off outside of pricing delegation
• Conduct a detailed review of Customer requirement with the Sales teams, ensure appropriate pricing methodology is selected and profit maximized for each opportunity, such as price validity, rollout assumption, Route to market concept
• Maximize bid profitability through detailed understanding of component cost environment and roadmap – provide guidance to Sales on most economically advantageous offering
• Provide Sales teams with a response to commercial questions contained in Customer tenders / Lenovo response documents, such like currency or commodity clauses protecting Lenovo from unforeseen market developments
• Work with Profit Managers/Legal team to ensure any non-standard deals have had appropriate risk review and results have been factored into pricing decision making, such like special payment terms, delivery commitments with penalty clauses
• Financial modelling of opportunities in MS Excel format, applying appropriate cost adjustments
• Ensure Price setting has been approached with due diligence and is based upon known market requirement or precedence
• Think “outside of the box” to drive for innovative ways to increase profitability / win rates
What you’ll bring/ Position Requirements:
Experience in pricing is advantageAdvanced English (mandatory, reports to the USA).Proven track record of delivering results in metrics -driven operational environmentDemonstrated ability to work under pressure to achieve the targets and meet the deadlinesExcellent communication skills (written and spoken).Strong planning and time management skillsWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Additional Locations: * Mexico - Distrito Federal - Mexico D.F. * Mexico * Brazil - Distrito Federal * Mexico - Distrito Federal - Mexico D.F.