Manager Freight Pricing

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At Mohawk Industries, we're committed to more - more customer solutions, more process improvements, more sustainable manufacturing and more opportunities for our team.

As a Fortune 500, global flooring leader with some of the best-known brands in the industry, Mohawk is a great place to start or develop your career with an emphasis on more of what's important to you. Whether you want to lead more, innovate more, learn more or create more, you can find your more with Mohawk.

What we need:

Mohawk is looking for a Manager of Freight Pricing (Finance) to lead our freight revenue team.

This individual will research and analyze data to strategically assess business needs and make recommendations to senior leadership that are designed to meet Mohawk's revenue goals. Uses detailed freight data to work cross functionally with IT, Logistics, Sales, and Finance to develop tools and systems for data mining and analysis of various data sources. Uses strong influencing and presentation skills to improve customer freight experience, simultaneously improving revenue maximization, process improvements for data management, and business intelligence updates.

What you'll do:

• Execute pricing strategy and framework developed to support market aligned pricing.
• Formalize pricing strategy KPIs with senior leadership, monitor, and take responsibility for the progress of the pricing strategy.
• Communicate and make recommendations to senior leaders in Logistics, Finance, and Sales on key strategic freight initiatives.
• Document and maintain best practices, project standards, procedures, application, quality objectives and "lessons learned"; ensures that reports are developed in a way that aligns methodologies across BUs, establishes and maintains best practices.
• Gather and analyze industry competitive data trends and business intelligence. Regularly meet with internal stakeholders to stay abreast of the competitive market landscape and the customer perspective.
• Develop and utilize systems tools to create a structure for analyzing, reporting and data mining of strategic information.
• Identify revenue leakage and support a solution to prevent loss opportunities.
• Manage SAP freight pricing database by updating customer pricing information.
• Lead a team of 2 or 3, responsible for analytics and system data governance.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree in related field (Finance, Accounting, Business Administration) required with 3-5 years related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Specific work experience with demonstrated professional growth and achievement.
• Experience in Master Data Management, Meta Data Management.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Intermediate Excel and/or SQL experience, PowerBI.

What you're good at:

• Excellent oral, written, presentation and interpersonal communications skills; ability to effectively exercise tact, discretion, judgement, and diplomacy when interacting and/or negotiating with internal customers.
• Ability to present and explain technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding.
• Ability to understand business context/business rules quickly and convert into contextual, logical, and physical data model design.
• Ability and willingness to accept responsibility, willingness to challenge established practices and draw relevant conclusions, including the persistence and willingness to take calculated risk, to stimulate, market, and sell new ideas within the organization.
• Ability to work effectively in a diverse work group, to achieve results through team efforts, and the desire and ability to motivate, persuade and direct the activities of others.
• Ability to manage/implement projects and contributes to concept development, and ability to identify, analyze and resolve business issues through solution-oriented projects.

What else?

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Mohawk Industries is a leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. Mohawk's vertically integrated manufacturing and distribution processes provide competitive advantages in the production of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring. Our industry-leading innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate our brands in the marketplace and satisfy all remodeling and new construction requirements. Our brands are among the most recognized in the industry and include American Olean, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Marazzi, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, and Quick-Step. During the past decade, Mohawk has transformed its business from an American carpet manufacturer into the world's largest flooring company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran committed to an inclusive workplace and a proud Drugs Don't Work participant.

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