Pricing Excellence Manager

Pricing Excellence Manager

Do you want to join an ambitious Pricing & Contract Excellence team and support driving pricing excellence in a global company

The position

We are looking for a Pricing Excellence Manager to join the Pricing & Contract Excellence team at HBK. This role offers a unique opportunity to support the transformation of pricing capabilities globally with a strong focus on driving adoption of pricing software and supporting the transition to SAP S/4 while ensuring pricing governance and commercial insight are embedded into daily business decisions.

This role is well suited for a candidate with solid commercial or pricing experience who enjoys working at the intersection of business systems and change. Rather than focusing on pure price administration the role emphasizes transformation cross-functional orchestration and translation of pricing strategy into execution while remaining hands-on during the system transition phase.

The position is based in HBKs office in Porto Portugal as a hybrid work model.

Primary responsibilities

In this role you can expect to:

• Support the development and execution of global pricing strategies translating strategic intent into operational processes and governance

• Play a key role in the transformation of pricing capabilities including:

  • Supporting the transition to SAP S/4

  • Driving implementation adoption and continuous improvement of pricing software

• Lead cross-functional pricing initiatives across Sales Finance IT Product Management and Business Intelligence driving adoption of new pricing tools processes and ways of working.

• Design and embed price setting and discount governance frameworks including guardrails escalation logic and decision rights

• Provide advanced pricing analytics and commercial insights to support better decision-making

• Support data validation testing and stabilization activities during the transition phase working hands-on with pricing data and system logic when required

• Serve as a key interface between pricing ERP systems and pricing software ensuring alignment between business rules and system configuration

• Continuously feed insights from implementation and day-to-day usage into process governance and capability improvements

Professional qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Business Administration Economics Project Management or a related field

• 36 years of experience from pricing/commercial excellence commercial functions consulting or project-driven roles in large organizations

• Solid understanding of B2B pricing and discounting principles

• Experience driving change initiatives system implementations or cross-functional projects

• Ability to translate strategy into execution through structured processes and governance

• Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel and solid PowerPoint capabilities

• Experience with SAP (ECC and/or S/4) pricing tools or CRM systems such as Salesforce is an advantage

Personal skills

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence motivate and align stakeholders through change

• Comfortable working in transformation environments with ambiguity and change

• Hands-on pragmatic mindset with willingness to get into the details when needed

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across seniority levels

• Structured curious and motivated by continuous improvement

• Fluent in English written and spoken

We Offer

Freedom with responsibility is the framework for HBKs employees. This allows for a good balance between work and family life and for constant development of professional and personal skills in an international and enjoyable working environment.

One company HBK

On 1 January 2019 Brüel & Kjær and HBM merged their activities into a new company called HBK (Hottinger Brüel & Kjær). With more than 3500 employees worldwide and production facilities in Denmark Germany the UK the USA China and Portugal and presence in 80 countries HBK is a leading player in the test and measurement area. For further info please visit .