Manager – Strategic Pricing

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Strategic Pricing Manager optimizing pricing, margins, and governance for Avery Dennison’s global materials and apparel solutions business. Leading LLM, Agentic AI, and analytics automation.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive strategic pricing execution, margin optimization, governance, and pricing automation across the Apparel Solutions Group
  • Evaluate, prototype, and integrate Generative AI, LLMs, and Agentic AI workflows for pricing decision-making and routine analytics
  • Develop AI tools to generate monthly insight reports from QLIK Analytics and Oracle data lakes
  • Identify revenue leakage, margin outliers, and growth opportunities
  • Collaborate with the AI Center of Excellence to build AI-enabled Price vs. Value Calculators
  • Automate pricing governance and audit workflows, including email approval archiving, CPQ data validation, and compliance checks
  • Optimize price-setting models, margin guardrails, and pricing corridors across key accounts
  • Conduct market and cost analyses, track price realization, and provide insights for negotiations and strategic decisions
  • Maintain SOPs, enforce approval matrices, perform compliance audits, and design scalable pricing workflows
  • Digitize master pricing data and streamline cross-functional approval workflows
  • Partner with analytics and technology teams on automated reporting, AI-driven value calculators, and predictive models
  • Create process maps and lead training for sales, commercial, and regional pricing teams

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Analytics, Finance, or Business Administration
  • 8–10 years of professional experience in strategic pricing, commercial finance, or data/AI analytics within global manufacturing, apparel, packaging, or B2B environments
  • Hands-on expertise with LLMs, including Gemini API, ChatGPT, and Claude
  • Experience with Agentic AI architectures and prompt engineering
  • Strong proficiency in QLIK Analytics, Power BI, Tableau, and Oracle Analytics Cloud
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities, including financial modeling and scenario analysis
  • Experience with database query language or Python/API integrations
  • Understanding of price-volume dynamics, cost-plus versus value-based pricing, RFP mechanics, and root-cause analysis
  • Exceptional collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional teams

Benefits:

  • Employees can work remotely
  • Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or other protected status