Taste & Wellbeing Head of Pricing for Global Accounts

Givaudan; Kemptthal; Vor Ort; CHF 120’000 - 150’000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A global leader in Taste & Wellbeing is seeking a Head of Pricing for Global Accounts in Kemptthal, Switzerland. This strategic role involves developing pricing strategies, managing negotiations, and collaborating with Key Account Managers to optimize commercial outcomes. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in procurement, sales, or pricing. This position offers excellent benefits including paid days off, pension contributions, and opportunities for professional development.

Leistungen

Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development

40-hour working week with flexibility

Additional paid days off

Favourable pension fund contributions

Subsidised meals

Sport and leisure club

Worldwide private accident coverage

Discounts at company shop

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, sales or pricing.
• Strong market knowledge including customers, segments, and practices.
• Proven track record of successful process and project management.

Aufgaben

• Develop and implement global pricing strategies.
• Drive growth and ensure efficiency across global accounts.
• Lead negotiations for tenders and core supplier agreements.

Kenntnisse

Strategic thinking

Data analysis

Negotiation skills

Team player

Ausbildung

University degree in Business, Finance or relevant discipline

Jobbeschreibung

Taste & Wellbeing Head of Pricing for Global Accounts

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

A Head of Pricing with the global leader in the creation of Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty, an important member of our Taste & Wellbeing Division Pricing team, and based in our Kemptthal office in Switzerland - Your future position?

Are you inspired to develop tailor‑made customer pricing strategies and drive negotiations with our key customers? Are you a professional with strong progressive experience in Procurement or Sales, and would like to take a new turn in your career by joining the Pricing team? Then, this might be THE right opportunity for you!

As the ‘Taste & Wellbeing Head of Pricing for Global Accounts’, you will be a key member of the Global Pricing Management Team. You will be a strategic business partner to Key Account Managers for our top global customers, supporting all business, financial, and pricing activities. This role combines market insight, strong customer focus, analytical rigour, and close collaboration with World Account Managers and the leadership team to drive sustainable value creation and optimise commercial outcomes globally.

This is an individual contributor role and reports directly to the Global Head of Pricing for Taste & Wellbeing. The position will be based in our Kemptthal office in Switzerland and offers excellent opportunities for both personal and professional development.

You will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. With its heritage stretching back over 250 years, Givaudan has a long history of innovating scents and tastes. Our passion is to collaborate with customers and partners to develop game‑changing innovations in the food & beverage, fragrance and beauty industries. We have a culture that works to inspire, challenge and capture the heart and soul of consumers and customers. Our customers have local, regional, and international profiles, bringing diversity and a range of rich experiences to your daily job.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if you love staying ahead of the curve, always aiming to exceed customer needs and believing in value creation.

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for -

Business Partnering :

• As a strategic business partner, you will drive growth, ensure efficiency tracking, and support proper prioritisation across global accounts.
• Be a trusted advisor on pricing decisions for large and complex customers, providing recommendations grounded in data analysis and market insights.
• Deliver a holistic view of account performance and define pricing frameworks that enable long‑term profitability and sustainable growth.

Develop strategies :

• Develop and implement global pricing strategies, define an appropriate cost model to track the RM performance and deliver superior outcomes.
• Collaborate and align with regional teams on cost models, margin mix, and volume‑to‑cost ratios.
• Oversee global account pricing performance to ensure consistency, competitiveness, and margin optimisation.
• Provide strategic guidance to regional pricing and commercial teams during tenders and major quotations to secure competitive and profitable deals.
• Harmonise methodology and promote best practices across geographies, reinforcing our overall pricing capabilities.

Managing Negotiation :

• Drive and co‑lead negotiations for tenders and core supplier agreements together with the Key Account Managers, ensuring consistent global alignment.
• Own and produce relevant global data considering the end‑to‑end process (from Creation via Operations to Sales) for contract negotiations.
• Systematically monitor raw material price trends in close alignment with procurement and integrate this intelligence into pricing recommendations.
• Combining analytical insights with creativity, provide hands‑on support during strategic negotiations with global accounts, in collaboration with World Account Managers.
• Proactively identify and implement opportunities to enhance efficiency and profitability through value‑based pricing initiatives.
• Play an active role in driving global business and pricing improvement projects, fostering continuous learning and innovation across functions and regions.

You?

Your professional profile includes:

• University degree in Business, Finance or a relevant discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, sales or pricing in an international work environment.
• Exposure to the Flavours, Food, Beverage or Ingredient industries is preferred.
• Have a good knowledge of pricing mechanisms, including profitability.
• Strong market knowledge, encompassing customers, segments, and market practices.
• Proven track record of successful process and project management.
• Successful track record of effectively communicating at all levels.
• A team player and comfortable with diversity.

Your benefits in Switzerland -

• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.
• 40‑hour working week - at least 4 days a week in the office.
• Additional paid days off.
• Favourable pension fund contributions.
• Subsidised meals in the staff restaurant/you benefit from a discounted catering offer (including lunch).
• Sport and leisure club (amenities/showers on site).
• Discounts at the company shop.
• Subsidised REKA vouchers.
• Worldwide private accident coverage and free choice of hospital.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion or sexual identity.
We also have a safe working environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.