Commercial Pricing Analyst

Total Marketing Support Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

TMS Global, part of DS Smith, is seeking a Commercial Pricing Analyst to drive profitable growth across a diverse international customer portfolio. You will transform complex commercial data into actionable insights and support pricing strategy across our global business.

Working with Sales, Procurement and Commercial Finance, you will develop benchmarking models, support contract renewals, RFPs, raw material indexation, and strategic pricing decisions.

Qualifications

• Background in packaging or manufacturing pricing.
• Proven experience in pricing and commercial analytics.
• Strong Excel modelling and data analysis.
• Experience with pricing methodologies and supply chain dynamics.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to develop and maintain pricing models and analytical tools.

Responsibilities

• Analyse customer and supplier pricing data to provide actionable insights and support informed commercial decision making.
• Ensure pricing decisions align with margin objectives, customer agreements and overall commercial strategy.
• Monitor raw material indices and market trends, providing insight and recommendations on potential pricing impacts.
• Identify opportunities to improve pricing performance, operational efficiency and commercial effectiveness.
• Drive automation initiatives and process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy and scalability across commercial operations.
• Manage the implementation of contract events within internal systems, including contract anniversaries and raw material index adjustments.
• Develop, enhance and maintain pricing models, ensuring effective deployment and adoption across the business.
• Partner with implementation and account teams on contract execution, onboarding and pricing-related issue resolution.
• Provide data management, pricing administration and commercial policy support to sales and finance teams.
• Equip Operations and Shared Service teams with tools and guidance to ensure accurate product pricing.
• Ensure adherence to internal controls and commercial governance processes, reporting any identified risks to senior management.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Pricing analytics

Stakeholder collaboration

Data interpretation

Cross-functional partnering

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

As a Commercial Pricing Analyst at TMS Global, part of DS Smith, you'll play a key role in supporting profitable growth across a diverse international customer portfolio. Working with stakeholders across EMEA, APAC, LATAM and North America, you'll transform complex commercial data into actionable insights, influence pricing strategy and support critical decision-making that drives business performance and long-term customer value.

Working closely with Sales, Procurement and Commercial Finance teams, you'll develop benchmarking models and provide commercial analysis to support contract renewals, RFP activity, raw material indexation and strategic pricing decisions across our global business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyse customer and supplier pricing data to provide actionable insights and support informed commercial decision making.
• Ensure pricing decisions align with margin objectives, customer agreements and overall commercial strategy.
• Monitor raw material indices and market trends, providing insight and recommendations on potential pricing impacts.
• Identify opportunities to improve pricing performance, operational efficiency and commercial effectiveness.

Process & Systems Optimization

• Drive automation initiatives and process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy and scalability across commercial operations.
• Manage the implementation of contract events within internal systems, including contract anniversaries and raw material index (RMI) adjustments.
• Develop, enhance and maintain pricing models, ensuring effective deployment and adoption across the business.

Internal Support & Governance

• Partner with implementation and account teams on contract execution, onboarding and pricing-related issue resolution.
• Provide data management, pricing administration and commercial policy support to sales and finance teams.
• Equip Operations and Shared Service teams with tools and guidance to ensure accurate product pricing.
• Ensure adherence to internal controls and commercial governance processes, reporting any identified risks to senior management.

About You

This role would suit someone who thrives in a fast-paced, matrix environment and enjoys collaborating across teams and geographies. You’ll bring strong analytical capability, attention to detail, and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset.

The ideal candidate will have experience in the following areas:

• A background in the Packaging industry, with Print experience is essential.
• Proven experience within pricing and commercial analytics
• Strong experience developing and maintaining pricing models and analytical tools.
• Strong understanding of commercial pricing methodologies, supply chain dynamics and operational delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience partnering across commercial, finance and operational teams.
• Advanced Excel skills, including modelling and data analysis.
• Experience using Power BI or similar visualisation tools would be advantageous.

If this role sounds like an exciting opportunity and you believe you have the skills and experience to succeed, we'd love to hear from you.

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