Pre-Pricing Specialist - Dayton NJ

Smurfit-Westrock; South Brunswick (NJ); On-site; USD 77,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock, NYSE: SW, is the go-to leader in sustainable packaging, seeking a Pre-Pricing Specialist to guide pricing strategy for new and existing customers and products. You'll develop estimates, manage quoting, and partner with Sales and other teams to maximize profitability.

This role requires a business or finance background, strong communication, and analytics to analyze margins, update cost estimates, and drive price changes while ensuring data accuracy across quoting systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a business/finance/economics/engineering/math field
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Analytical thinker with ability to make informed decisions
• Well organized with strong time management skills
• Detail-oriented with meticulous attention to data accuracy

Responsibilities

• Determine pricing and value of offerings using market intelligence and pricing strategies.
• Partner with Sales to align pricing with company goals.
• Develop new item cost estimates and update re-pricing as needed.
• Review pricing proposals for accuracy and production specifications.
• Oversee price change processes and price records updates.
• Identify margin improvement opportunities and collaborate across departments.

Skills

Pricing strategy

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Time management

Detail oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration/Finance/Economics/Industrial Engineering or math-related

Job description

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

The Pre-Pricing Specialist is responsible for providing strategic pricing guidance and managing the pricing process for new and existing customers and products. This includes developing new and revised item estimates, managing the quoting process, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to maximize profitability by developing strategic pricing.

How you will impact WestRock:

• Responsible for determining the appropriate pricing and value of the company's offerings using market intelligence and other varying pricing strategies.
• Work as business partners with Sales to compliment the skillsets of each party to reach company goals.
• Day to day understanding of external influences of pricing trends as well as internal systems used as resources to derive final inputs in decision making process.
• Develop and utilize pricing tools to effectively respond to changing market needs and trends.
• Analyze prices already in place within current business portfolio from both pricing quality and margin perspectives.
• Act as control point for data accuracy in both quoting process and the estimating system.
• Manage and process all customer requests for quotations (RFQs).
• Strive to thoroughly understand all manufacturing processes, equipment, including equipment limitations.
• Create new item cost estimates and update any required re-pricing of current items due to changes from original specifications or requirements.
• Review pricing proposal for accuracy and confirm customer specifications for production.
• Oversee price change process and price record updates.
• Identify and execute margin improvement opportunities.
• Identify ways to improve margin individually and as a team by collaborating with Sales and other departments.
• Execute on identified margin improvement opportunities via formal tracking illustrating desirable impact to bottom line results.
• Utilize standard processes throughout day-to-day activities and identify ways to improve administrative tasks when they present themselves.
• Strive to be a continuous learner. As a continuous learner, further opportunities should present themselves to both employer and employee for short-term and long-term growth.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Industrial Engineering or math-related discipline
• Prior work experience in Paper Manufacturing or a related field
• Great written and verbal communication skills with ability to adjust communication style and interact across all levels of the organization
• Analytical thinker with the ability to logically process information and make informed decisions
• Well organized with great time management skills to manage multiple priorities
• Highly motivated to excel and achieve results
• Detail-Oriented, extremely thorough, and skillful at detecting error with the ability to give meticulous attention to details

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

The salary range for this position is $76,875.00 - $128,125.00, depending on your role, level, and location. The range listed is also the expected pay for roles in Illinois and Colorado. The benefits for this role include short-term bonus incentive, health, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts or health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and paid sick leave as required by applicable state/local law, 15 days of paid vacation, and 11 days of paid holidays, subject to annual change. Your pay will be based on factors such as your skills, experience, and education.