Pricing Lead

About the role

Kerry, a global taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, is looking for a Pricing Lead in Istanbul, Turkey. Reporting to the Finance Director, the role leads pricing and commercial finance activities: ensuring accurate pricing, optimising margins, managing financial risks and giving data-driven insights to support profitable growth. It works cross-functionally with Commercial, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain and regional teams, and develops the capabilities of the pricing team.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure accurate and timely responses to pricing requests.
• Support the commercial team in maintaining the catalogue price list for standard products and quarterly pricing for commodities.
• Help decision-makers understand the financial implications of their choices.
• Evaluate rebate and discount requests so that incentive volumes protect margins.
• Provide financial support for commercial projects and review inventory and margin reports to explain margin variances.
• Analyse risks such as exchange rate movements, taxes and supply chain constraints.
• Negotiate transfer prices that are too high and protect local site profitability.
• Develop the pricing analysts who report to you.
• Review business performance, recommend strategic direction and implement the annual price increase process.
• Contribute to the overall pricing strategy, margin deviation and currency/raw material coverage decisions, and improve the end-to-end price-setting process.
• Own budgeting and forecasting for revenue, cost and margin, and partner with Commercial to drive AR collections.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Management Accounting.
• 4-6 years of relevant experience in pricing, margin management, FP&A, commercial or operations finance.
• FMCG pricing and product costing experience is very beneficial.
• Fluent, confident English; strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Attention to detail, comfort with autonomy and ambiguity, and ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.

Required skills

• SAP or another ERP system experience.
• Project management skills.
• Advanced Excel, Word and PowerPoint.