Senior Pricing Product Owner, EMEA

Additional Locations: France-Voisins le Bretonneux; Germany-Düsseldorf; Ireland-Galway; Italy-Milan; Spain-Madrid; United Kingdom-Hemel Hempstead

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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

EMEA Pricing Center of Excellence, Our Mission and Statement:

We create and maintain EMEA Pricing Policy, we build process and solutions to support its execution and to monitor divisional pricing Strategies. We share best practices across the organization, we drive price awareness across the organization, and we aim to be the go-to team for any pricing topic within the organization.

We support EMEA organization in complying with achieving pricing plan execution by partnering with the business, assessing pricing needs, proposing and developing pricing solutions.

Our Mission is to support the business in formulating prices which reflect our products and services value while allowing us to gain an edge over our competitors. 

Our Statement: Price Matters!

To us, pricing is a core element of the corporate strategy and it should be embedded in the long-term vision of the company as well as in everyday business decisions in order to generate profitable growth. 

Location - Any BSC EMEA Hub (Duesseldorf, Galway, Milan, Madrid, Hemel Hempsted, Voisins-le-Bretonneux)

Pricing Product Owner Role and Key Responsibilities:

Own/support current and future development and maintenance of infrastructure within the pricing pillar (processes & tools) to drive real and sustained pricing performance while comply with EMEA pricing policy, by:

• Technology Expert:

Own & support maintenance & enhancements of pricing processes and solutions (Pricing policy, CPQ, Price Books, Execution Monitoring tools) and manages user support and user training working with Pricing Intern and junior PO

• • Identify the right technologies and propose new tech projects to improve and automate business strategies
  • Work with IS to optimize and converge infrastructure and platforms
  • Continually evaluate and improve these tools ensuring they are easy to use and that they deliver value to our customers and to BSC
  • Own the Business Requirement gathering process and content for all technical projects supporting Business – both from divisions as well as from the CoE
  • Bridge the functional and technical understanding for Divisions, CoE and IS department
  • Support technology integration and data management
  • Work in close coordination with the IS department, Global project teams and external 3rd parties to develop, enhance and roll out technologies and processes  

• Project management Skills: Demonstrates the discipline of planning, prioritizing, executing, and monitoring projects and change activities to achieve specified outcomes within a clearly defined timeframe. Manages and optimizes resources and risks and works in alignment with BSC methodologies and tools.
  • Support delivery of new projects/requirements by coordinating with stakeholders using project management skills leveraging best-practice tools and processes
  • Own & support the RACI matrix and the RAID log and ensure timely reminders to CoE team and its stakeholders and vendors     
  • Own & support the documentation for solution development and enhancement
  • Manages business requirement gathering process

• Brings Innovative ideas: Generates new ideas, methods, processes, and solutions. Continuously uses imagination, creativity, and critical thinking to solve problems and meet needs. Seeks new approaches, ways of working and innovations to improve business decisions, efficiencies, and the customer experience. 

• Subject Matter Expert: Be the expert and internal “go to” person within the team for knowledge on the owned solutions and processes

• Data Driven decisions: Support data-driven decisions that shape and deliver the best possible business and customer outcomes.

• Value proposition: Support analysis and development of differentiated value propositions to promote and sell new ideas and projects

Collaboration, Communication and Partnership

• Develop and implement successful communication plans, using storytelling techniques and effective presentation skills
• Prepare regular updates on status and progress of tools/projects owned/supported
• Bridge the functional and technical understanding for Divisions, CoE, IS department and external vendors 
• Work together with strategic pricing partner and extended SPE team on best practice sharing, requirement gathering, set up and training of business partners 

Team Working Spirit

• Contribute to environment of mutual trust, respect and collaboration within the team; sharing relevant information within team and developing new ways of working to improve team performance
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in divisions and functions in EMEA and globally to drive effective pricing execution and performance
• Identify own areas for personal growth and development 

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Skills and Experience Required:

Relevant undergraduate degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or other related technical field):

• Senior level: minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in similar roles within structured environment
• Experienced professional with a complete understanding and wide application of principle, theories, and concepts in the field. Applies a full understanding of area of specialization to resolve a wide range of issues in creative ways.
• Senior level able to:
  • Plan, organize non-routine tasks Good organizational and project management skills, including the ability to juggle multiple projects and tasks across different groups
  • Initiate or maintain work schedule and priorities.
  • Plan and organize project assignments and maintains project schedules.
  • Proven ability to analyze data from different sources and present findings, analysis and recommendations clearly in writing and orally
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; including business process and data analytics; able to construct and execute multiple complex analyses

Other experiences all levels:

• Strong interpersonal and influence skills; previous experience of successfully influencing colleagues across divisions and departments.
• Previous experience of working successfully within cross border and virtual team is an advantage
• Previous experience of working with IT and solution development teams is an advantage
• Good business requirements documentation
• Fluent English
• Technical experience in the following:
  • Good level Microsoft Excel required
  • Tableau or other data visualization tool knowledge is a plus
  • SQL, Access is a plus
  • Sales cloud knowledge is a plus

Other Soft Skills all levels:

Self-motivated and self-directed; willingness to take responsibility over specific activities

• Process oriented with strong attention to detail
• Proactive, driven and engaged
• High team contribution and cooperation spirit
• Flexible and change oriented; willingness to develop new methods, processes and ways of working and drive change in organization to implement them
• Ability to manage and contribute to multi projects

Requisition ID: 558086

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!