Global Pricing & Commercial Excellence Manager

Avient Corporation

Global Pricing & Commercial Excellence Manager at Avient Corporation supporting Protective Materials Business unit. Driving commercial capabilities, pricing execution, and analytics across the organization.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeGeleen • 🇳🇱 NetherlandsMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive the development and deployment of best practices, processes, and analytics to enhance sales performance and decision-making.
Build organizational capabilities through targeted training and hands-on enablement, while defining and steering improvement initiatives either directly or by coaching others to execute improvement projects.
Act as global owner of the CRM platform, ensuring adoption, data quality, and continuous enhancement to support sales effectiveness.
Own and continuously optimize the pricing tool, ensuring strong user adoption and full alignment with commercial and OTC processes.
Manage and streamline pricing processes, including the facilitation of annual global price updates and the execution of mass price changes throughout the year, ensuring consistency, compliance and efficiency.
Identify opportunities and implement improvements to streamline workflows, enhance systems, and increase commercial discipline globally.
Lead and drive improvements in system connectivity and data flow across Salesforce, pricing tools, and SAP to enable seamless commercial execution.
Manage the bi-annual APM Net Promoter Score (NPS®) survey and translate insights into clear, actionable improvements to enhance customer experience and loyalty.
Establish and manage a Commercial Excellence KPI framework to monitor commercial performance and drive fact-based decision-making.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Service, Finance, IT, and Marketing to ensure alignment of commercial processes, tools, and data.
Coordinate and manage global rebates and commissions, ensuring accurate calculation and timely execution in line with commercial policies and performance objectives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a Marketing, Science or Technical discipline.
Knowledge and past experiences in commercial excellence, continuous improvements, CRM tools and SAP.
LSS Green or Black Belt certification is appreciated
Ability to quickly understand rules of the market and play with them in a meaningful way.
Experience with managing internal and external contacts and networks.
Influencing skills and consultative skills needed as well as good vision and judgment skills.
Good verbal and written skills of English.
Respect and understanding for cultural sensitivity and cultural differences in a business environment.
An open mindset, natural curiosity and active listening skills.
The ability to build and maintain excellent working relations with a wide variety of functional disciplines in a global business environment.
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Continuous improvement mindset
Highly self-motivated and pro-active
Ability to manage (IT) projects

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

SalesforceSAPData AnalyticsKPI Framework DevelopmentProcess Improvement

Soft Skills

Influencing SkillsConsultative SkillsExcellent CommunicationActive ListeningCultural Sensitivity

Certifications

LSS Green BeltLSS Black Belt