Centre of Excellence Manager – Pricing

TeWhiwhingamahi The Opportunity 

This is a senior leadership opportunity to shape how pricing drives growth customer outcomes and long term value at Contact.

Youll sit within our Retails team and lead the pricing strategy across our portfolio. Youll balance day to day pricing activity with forward looking strategic thinking ensuring pricing supports our financial commitments growth ambitions brand positioning and regulatory obligations.

Youll lead a capable pricing team and work closely with product marketing data and Retail leadership to embed pricing into broader initiatives from new product frameworks to future capability development.

This is a role for someone who enjoys complexity values collaboration and can connect commercial insight to real world outcomes.

Qualifications :

Kowaikoe About You 

Youre a commercially strong strategic leader who thinks beyond margin alone.

You bring a holistic view of pricing understanding its impact on customers products brand and growth and youre comfortable navigating tradeoffs in a matrix environment.

You enjoy working with diverse stakeholders leading people through change and translating insight into action.

You dont need deep technical pricing systems expertise but you do bring strong judgement curiosity and the confidence to influence senior decisionmaking.

• 710 years experience connecting data and analysis to commercial outcomes
• Proven experience designing and delivering pricing strategies that drive growth and value
• Strong leadership capability with experience developing and empowering teams
• Strategic thinking skills including scenario planning and what if analysis
• Comfort working in complex fastmoving environments with competing priorities

Additional Information :

If youre looking for a senior role where you can influence strategy grow your leadership impact and help shape the future of Retail pricing at Contact wed love to hear from you. 

We support flexible working and this role can be based in Auckland Wellington or Tauranga to stay close to those essential to the mahi.

Contact is not a place youll stagnate. We are growing and offer superb learning and development opportunities along with a bunch of other perks like free health insurance cover boosted KiwiSaver access to Contact Shares a Good to be Home annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing a trail-blazing parental leave policy twice yearly payments towards our products if youre a Contact customer and more!

Applications close on Sunday 29th March but just like peak demand great talent surges early so if this role sparks your interest power up your application now! We love a good story at Contact its what keeps our energy flowing! So if youve got one that connects with this role send it our way.

Here at Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko) we know our strength lies in developing a sense of belonging - one that helps us attract and retain people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

Were committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued respected and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities to help build a better Aotearoa New Zealand.

We have a rich community of talented people that we support to thrive at Contact.

Our inclusive hiring process is designed to embrace the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand ensuring a wide range of perspectives are included in our decision-making and helping reduce bias along the way.

The wellbeing of our kaimahi is super important to us.

We use employee insights to offer a range of initiatives and resources to support physical mental financial and emotional wellbeing including flexible working arrangements employee network groups and a market-leading parental leave policy.

At Te Mata Hiko we want everyone to thrive. We welcome applicants far and wide - of every age stage background and pride. Join us and be part of a team that values your passion and attitude just as much as your experience and skills.

Please note only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. Were not about box ticking so if you think you have what it takes but dont meet everything stated above please still get in touch. Wed love to kōrero.

Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time