Pricing & Quote Executive

Avnet; Johor; On-site; MYR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Avnet in Malaysia seeks a pricing specialist to manage costing and pricing for new and existing customers. You will leverage the global proposal desk to prepare quotes, analyze profitability, and support cost reductions and price changes across assigned line cards.

Responsibilities include maintaining customer price books and cost models, updating quote tools and ERP systems, and collaborating with sales, program management, supplier BDMs, customer service, and finance to secure optimal costs

Qualifications

• Costs and pricing processes for customers.
• Prepare and maintain price books and cost models including ERP system.
• Provide profitability analytics and pricing recommendations.
• Collaborate with sales, program management, finance to optimize costs.
• Travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Prepares timely and accurate quotes for customers leveraging the global proposal desk.
• Conducts quote review to ensure price accuracy and competitiveness of pre/post sales processes of assigned line cards.
• Contributes to strategic pricing decisions and creates pricing models to support customers.
• Prepare and maintain all customer price books and cost models including day-to-day operations of timely and accurate updating of quote tool(s) and ERP system.
• Works with materials, sales, program management, supplier BDMs, customer service, and finance to ensure best costs for customers.
• May prepare reports to ensure customer margin performance.
• Tracks all win/loss results and provides activity reports to sales team to identify opportunities to increase sales.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Pricing analysis

Quote preparation

ERP system usage

Data analytics

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

ERP system

Quote tools

Job description

Job Summary

Performs costing and pricing process for new and existing customers. Manages customer pricing by leveraging best practices and methodology of the global proposal desk. Supports program management and customer management with quoting, cost reductions, price changes, analytics and profitability analyses.

Principal Responsibilities

• Prepares timely and accurate quotes for customers leveraging the global proposal desk and ensuring all quotes are approved and comply with internal policies.
• Conducts quote review to ensure price accuracy and competitiveness of pre/post sales processes of assigned line cards.
• Contributes to strategic pricing decisions and creates pricing models to support customers.
• Prepare and maintain all customer price books and cost models including day-to-day operations of timely and accurate updating of quote tool(s) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Works with materials, sales, program management, supplier Business Development Managers (BDM), customer service, and finance to ensure best costs for customers.
• May prepare reports to ensure customer margin performance.
• Tracks all win/loss results and provides activity reports to sales team to identify opportunities to increase sales.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Level Specifications

• Acquires basic skills through work experience or formal training to perform routine tasks.
• Tasks are routine, repetitive and manual in nature with minimal complexity or variation and specific to the job.
• Work is performed under supervision with detailed instructions. Priorities are provided for performing work.
• Interacts mostly with immediate peers within assigned team. Based on nature of the role, may respond to requests from others in the organization.
• Impact of decisions is primarily contained to the work of the job.

Work Experience

• Typically requires less than one year of related experience

Education And Certification(s)

• High School Diploma or equivalent

Distinguishing Characteristics

• Position may require the ability to travel

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills.