Pricing Specialist

**ROLE PURPOSE**
- The Pricing Specialist will be responsible for the coordination, execution, and analysis of all pricing-related matters including special projects, productization, proposals, and tenders.
- Create clear commercial models and objectives
- Development and implementation of the Commercial Strategy
- Develop an effective interface with the Employer’s financial procedures

**ROLE REQUIREMENT**
- Ensure Commercial processes and procedures are created and adhered to.
- Management of the quoting administrators.
- Develop and implement pricing strategies for the company's products and services, including tenders.
- Direct impact on business profitability.
- Gives regular, comprehensive, and constructive feedback to the team and conducts their performance appraisals.
- Proactively seeks feedback from team members and deals constructively with any criticism.
- Understanding the end-user requirements and pricing accordingly
- Liaising with internal technical personnel, suppliers, and distributors to put the best deal forward.
- Efficiently and timely process quotes that are well-presented and complete.
- Accurate analyses of pricing documents to ensure competitive and value-based proposals
- Sound understanding of forex and conversions
- Building of commercial/financial models
- Working in a fast-paced tender environment and ensuring deadlines are adhered to.
- Analyse price relationships between products
- Collaborate with senior management to implement new pricing initiatives
- Train and direct a pricing team
- Oversee the competitive landscape for assigned product categories.
- Review market trends for pricing opportunities to optimize revenues
- Knowledge of CCW system
- Cisco Deal registrations and discount negotiations
- Cisco order tool experience
- Coordinating the bidding effort, by preparing tenders (from the pricing point of view), completing pricing schedules, and delivering tender pricing-related inputs accurately and timeously.

**JOB SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS**
- ** Administration and Management** — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modelling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- ** English Language** — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- ** Administrative** — Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
- ** Time Management — **Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- ** Coordination**— Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- ** Critical Thinking** — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- ** Law and Government — **Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

**QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE**
- Grade 12
- Tertiary Qualification in Finance, Business Management, or Similar.
- 3 to 5 years experience in general sales administration within the IT industry.
- Financial administration background within the same industry.
- Need to have Cisco experience - essential.

**COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS**
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Dependability
- Self-Control
- Stress Tolerance
- Attention to Detail
- Cooperation
- Initiative
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Achievement/Effort
- Social Orientation