Team Leader Pricing

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has an exciting opportunity in our Marketing & Customer department.

PURPOSE

Monitor and maintain pricing master data for Wholesale, National Accounts and Local Trade to ensure compliance and integrity to support the business’ revenue growth strategy.

**Key Duties & Responsibilities**:
KEY OUTPUTS

Capture and Maintain National Account, Wholesale Channel and Local Trade Promotions
- Serve as point of escalation to coach and guide team to resolve queries or issues in relation to new promotions and promotions changes in the system.
- Capture approved promotions into SAP, for specialised segments or channels.
- Balance promotions by ensuring SAP net invoice prices are matched to the relevant promotions.
- Assist Sales Managers to ensure that the correct groups of customers are linked to the appropriate promotions, and that the correct information is captured for promotion reporting.
- Audit captured promotions on a daily basis to ensure compliance to relevant discount levels.
- Creating structures in SAP for National Account, Wholesale Channel and Local Trade Promotions to ensure customers are linked to a standard code across the business, for pricing and reporting purposes.
- Review and approve promotion reporting stats, on a daily basis, to ensure data integrity.
- Load and verify price list discounts when new products are launched in the business.

Capture and Maintain Pricing Master Data in Customer Master Records in SAP
- Serve as point of escalation in relation to SAP customer master data field codes to resolve queries and issues.
- Remove outlets linked to trading term discounts or promotion programmes due to reported non-compliance or where the outlets no longer qualify for discounts or inclusion in promotion programmes, for Wholesale customers.
- Serve as escalation point for the approval and coding of changes to outlet subtrade channels, as required.
- Create the product hierarchy for material codes, for all new materials in the system.
- Convert National Account, Local Key Account, Wholesale and Local Trade outlets to ensure alignment to relevant trading terms.
- Audit National Account and Local Key Account customers to ensure customers are aligned to appropriate trading terms, on a monthly basis.
- Create Key Account customer trading terms for the National Account Management team to ensure standards and procedures are adhered to.
- Maintain and update masterdata to ensure that the correct National Account Manager is linked to correct list of National Accounts.
- Removal of outlets from trading terms for outlets that have been terminated (‘marked for suppression process’).

Resolve Pricing Programme and Invoice-Related Queries
- Investigate and approve pricing claims from customers and the sales force for Wholesale, National Account and Local Trade.
- Investigate and resolve queries from the sales force and/or sales force support functions.

Act as Process Gatekeepers to Enable Correct Pricing Outcomes
- Act as pricing process gatekeepers for the sales force as well as the company so that strategic and lawful pricing outcomes are achieved consistently.
- Review the calculations of all rebates and accruals to ensure accuracy for payment at month end or quarter end, for National Accounts, Local Key Accounts and Wholesalers.
- Manage the onboarding of new Wholesalers to the system, from end-to-end, to ensure appropriate procedures are followed.
- Manage the revision of new trading terms of Wholesalers in the system to ensure that Wholesalers have valid trading terms in the system, annually.
- Review Customer Development Fund (CDF) allocations to ensure accurate loading on the system.
- Support ad hoc customer masterdata projects, on behalf of the National Account Management team, to ensure data integrity.
- Support the Finance and Procurement team, on an ad-hoc basis, to load pricing and discounts for specialised divisions of the business.

**Skills, Experience & Education**:
Qualification
- 3 Year degree and/or diploma or studying towards a tertiary qualification is an advantage
- 3-5 Years work experience working with Masterdata (on any ERP system)
- Computer literate (MS Office)
- Intermediate to advanced excel experience and ability
- Work experience with reporting and/or maintenance of MS Access or SQL, and/or VBA programming would be advantageous

Knowledge
- Masterdata management and systems
- Financial acumen
- Clear understanding of relevant and discount levels in the business
- Clear understanding of trading term processes and standards.
- Margin Minder experience and understanding.
- Pricing systems to understand how accruals and accrual levels are loaded in the system.
- SAP reporting
- Promotion reporting
- Understanding of Wholesale channels, customers and groups.
- Product hierarchies.
- Commercial operating model.

**General**:
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