Commercial Manager
BASF
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Wyandotte • Missouri • United States
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About the role
- Supporting pricing strategy development and implementation, margin management, and contracts/commercial agreements for the Engineering Plastics business.
- Coordinating pricing related activities with Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and other internal functions.
- Analyzing customer and product profitability and driving margin improvement opportunities.
- Supporting the creation and maintenance of financial related forecasts, raw material cost tracking and forecasting, rebate calculations, and internal pricing lists and documentation.
- Being responsible for material allocation management and related communications.
- Supporting or leading projects designed to optimize margin (i.e. - cost reduction, value pricing, freight adjustments, rebate optimization, etc.).
- Leading pricing initiatives that include price increases, decreases and negotiations.
- Ensuring compliance and related audits.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, or a related field.
- Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Proven leadership and collaboration / interpersonal abilities.
- Experience in data analysis.
- Proficiency in MS Office / Office 365 tools (Excel, PowerBI, CoPilot).
- Engineering plastics or financial background (preferred).
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements whenever possible
- Highly competitive retirement savings plan with company match and investment options
- Well-being programs that include comprehensive mental health support for you and your household family members
- Family forming benefits (fertility, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, maternity/parental leave, and more)
- Back-up child and elder care with discount programs for families of all ages and stages
- Mentoring and career development opportunities that allow you to share, learn, and thrive
- Matching gifts program that allows you to deepen the impact of your contributions to qualified charities.
- Employee crisis support for when the unexpected happens
- Access to our BASF wine cellar, employee discounts, and much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data analysisfinancial forecastingmargin managementcost reductionvalue pricingrebate calculationsmaterial allocation managementpricing strategy developmentprofitability analysiscontract management
Soft skills
independent workverbal communicationwritten communicationleadershipcollaborationinterpersonal skills