Product Pricing Specialist - DLM

Aggregate function:  Shared Services
Business Area:  Business_VOIS
Posting Country:  Hungary
Date Posted:  24 Oct 2024
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

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Hello there! We’re Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (also known as _VOIS) and we’re looking for a 

 

Product Pricing Specialist - DLM

 

  

Your role in a nutshell:  

 

A fantastic opportunity to play a key role in driving the growth of our Device lifecycle Management Product, which delivers a managed service & device HW revenue streams to support customer need.

Reporting into the Pricing CoE - a central Hub providing Pricing Services, Digital Quoting Tools and Data Insights and product economics improvements – with a dotted line into the Vodafone Business Mobility Product Team, this role will own the end to end in life pricing process, managing multiple internal and external stakeholders, whilst driving transformation in the way we simplify the operations.

 

The Product Pricing Specialist, DLM, is a newly created role, to bring operational leadership and expertise to an exciting, fast-moving sector that plays an important role in Vodafone Business growth. Specifically:
•    Ownership of DLM Pricing Operations. Device pricing fluctuates - through price drops, FX impacts, and Manufacturer commercial incentives – and we need to ensure these competitive prices are reflected in our product offer on a timely basis, in order win business. (Currently on a quarterly cadence with exceptions, but can be shaped)
•    Working as the key contact across the Devices Teams, our partners (Macquarie Bank, CEVA logistics) and various other internal teams, you will need to ensure accurate / competitive prices are secured on a timely basis, translated into lease rates, and populated in a published device catalogue, to support downstream VOIS customer facing teams.
•    Ensure lease rates stay compliant within supplier pricing agreements.
•    Develop subject matter expertise on the competitive environment to challenge teams/partners as required and defend positioning based on data insights. Initial focus on device pricing to evolve into the Managed service we provide in parallel.
•    Work with upstream Commercial Strategy team who set the DLM pricing tool parameters, acting as a link between sales/customer/partner feedback to check the principles stay up to date and competitive.
•    Engage with the Product Development teams to drive improvements to the tools and process as required to achieve simplicity improvements and to improve CX.
•    Core interface into Sales to field questions on current pricing, developing trust in the accuracy of our pricing and drivers of that. Bring expertise to support customer engagements.
•    Drive the Vodafone Business agenda with the Devices/terminals team and with core Device OEMs (Apple, Samsung etc.).
•    Gather and analyze commercial insight in order to recommend price points.
•    Monitor pricing and profitability of DLM.
•    Organize periodic reviews of performance and recommendations for improvement.
•    Part of the extended Product virtual team

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What you’ll do: 

 

•    Ownership of DLM Pricing Operations.
•    Commercial subject matter expert to define business requirements for process improvements and partner performance and support sales, customer queries.
•    Stakeholder Management across internal and external parties to deliver a professional, timely, competitive pricing operation.
•    Accountable for the accuracy of the price tables, and associated business logic driving outputs.
•    Work in conjunction with Product and Commercial teams to drive growth and partner performance

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What you will bring to the team:

 

•    Financial/Commercial modelling experience
•    Applied thinking and ability to drive change.
•    Attention to detail and problem solving.
•    Business Management / Project management skills. Ability to deliver against timelines.
•    Gravitas. Communication & stakeholder management skills

 

 

In return we provide you with: 

 

  • A dynamic environment where innovative ideas are always welcome. 
  • A collaborative community where your professional goals and work are supported by a diverse team. 
  • Access to internal trainings through Vodafone University and external trainings via other providers 
  • A supportive internal coaching and mentoring culture 
  • Opportunities to participate in company activities and CSR activities. 
  • Corporate assets including a laptop and mobile phone with Vodafone RED subscription (unlimited voice, text message, and data within the EU) 
  • Cafeteria package 
  • Private Medical Services 
  • Employee Assistance Program to support your wellbeing and mental health. 
  • Life and accident insurance 
  • You can work remotely overseas for 20 days a year. 
  • 16 weeks fully paid parental leave. This applies to all non-birthing partners who become parents due to birth or adoption. 
  • You and your family members can enjoy several discounts from our partners. 
  • You will be working in a hybrid model, which means 3 days working from home with 2 days office visit per week. 

 

 

What you need to know about us 

 

We are the engine that powers Vodafone around the world: our work impacts millions of people around the globe every day. If you want to experiment and learn fast, integrated into an international, multicultural and inclusive team, then _VOIS is the place for you. 

 

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