Assistant Manager - Commercial Excellence (Pricing)

Role summary

You will report to the Customer Operations Director and be a core member of the Commercial Excellence team supporting pricing operations, order management and business operations analytics across CPG Europe. The role focuses on improving pricing data quality and systems, tracking price realization and leakage, and delivering actionable pricing analytics to improve profitability.

Key responsibilities

• Improve data structures and support integration between ERP, CRM and pricing systems to ensure reliable inputs for pricing analytics.
• Gather competitive intelligence and customer insights as required to inform pricing decisions.
• Maintain and refine price realization dashboards and KPIs to track price discipline and leakage.
• Perform historical and transactional pricing analyses to identify opportunities for list-price adjustments and better capture customer willingness-to-pay.
• Support tracking of raw-material inflation pass-through and set pricing targets in collaboration with Procurement and Finance.
• Drive price-list design and price-setting analytics based on market dynamics, competitive intelligence and historical data, working closely with Product Marketing and Sales.
• Deliver ad-hoc pricing analytics projects and provide guidance during deal reviews to improve pricing outcomes and profitability.

Candidate profile

• 12+ years experience with demonstrated results in pricing analytics, pricing transformation, digital pricing initiatives, or price performance tracking.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate analytics into pricing and go-to-market actions.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and collaboration skills; comfortable influencing Sales, Marketing, Procurement and Finance.
• Able to learn markets and technologies quickly; industry/customer literacy preferred.

Required technical skills

• Advanced Excel skills for independent analysis and modelling.
• SQL skills to query and analyse transaction data directly from databases.
• Experience building and maintaining BI dashboards (Power BI or equivalent) and delivering fit-for-purpose reporting.
• Solid financial analytics capability to support decisionsupport systems and drive action plans.

What success looks like (first 612 months)

• Reliable data flows established between core systems for pricing analytics.
• Price-realization dashboard(s) delivering accurate, actionable KPIs and rootcause insights.
• Clear, evidence-based recommendations implemented to reduce leakage and improve realized margins.
• Strong cross-functional relationships and regular, data-driven contributions to deal reviews.

Why join

• Work with a global coatings and construction products business (Tremco within RPM Group) at the intersection of commercial strategy, analytics and pricing transformation.
• Opportunity to lead pricing initiatives that directly impact profitability and go-to-market decisions across Europe.

How to apply

Please apply via the job board (Naukri / LinkedIn) with your CV and a brief cover note summarizing your pricing analytics experience and biggest pricing impact to date. Include examples of dashboards, models or SQL/Power BI projects in your application where possible.