Sr Manager, Pricing Transformation

Key Responsibilities

• Own hands-on configuration and build oversight for the MPP platform, translating approved designs into working pricing rules, workflows, and system logic in partnership with the SI
• Own project management of the MPP implementation, leading integrated planning and day-to-day execution and translating strategy into an actionable roadmap with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, resources, and success measures
• Govern business data and solution architecture decisions for the pricing ecosystem, including defining business data requirements, canonical data models, master-data ownership, data quality standards, lineage, controls, and reconciliation needs
• Translate business processes into scalable integration requirements across MPP, Vistex Chargebacks, Vistex Rebates, Databricks, ERP, CRM, e-commerce, and downstream reporting platforms
• Partner with Technology, Data, Security, and vendor teams to ensure interfaces, data flows, access controls, performance, and support models meet enterprise requirements
• Support MPP product owners in managing and prioritizing the enhancement backlog and release plan using business value, customer and TSM impact, risk, control requirements, architectural dependencies, and delivery effort
• Lead future-state process and operating-model design, including roles, decision rights, approval workflows, governance, service levels, controls, and ownership across Pricing and adjacent functions
• Coordinate business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, data migration and validation, end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing, cutover, release readiness, hypercare, and transition to steady-state support
• Lead organizational change management, stakeholder impact assessments, communications, engagement, and readiness activities to drive understanding, adoption, and sustained behavior change
• Design and execute role-based training and enablement, including curricula, job aids, train-the-trainer programs, super-user networks, office hours, and post-launch reinforcement
• Partner closely with the lead transformation TSM to maintain enterprise visibility, align cross-program dependencies, and provide clear executive-level reporting on roadmap progress, decisions, risks, readiness, adoption, and value
• Establish disciplined program governance and delivery controls, including maintaining integrated plans, risk/assumption/issue/dependency logs, decision logs, dependency maps, change controls, and readiness criteria; proactively escalating issues with recommended actions
• Manage system integrator and vendor performance, deliverables, resources, budget, scope, and quality in partnership with Procurement, Finance, Technology, and program leadership, serving as the primary point of contact for day-to-day SI issue resolution and escalation
• Facilitate design forums and governance decisions, documenting outcomes and accountable owners, and ensuring timely follow-through across workstreams
• Define and track delivery, adoption, service, data-quality, and financial-value KPIs, including the MPP business case (cost, benefit realization, and ROI); partner with Finance and business leaders to validate benefits and drive continuous improvement
• Build reusable pricing transformation capabilities, documentation, standards, and talent; coach team members and progressively assume broader ownership for enterprise pricing strategy, architecture, governance, and platform performance
• Own the post-launch enhancement roadmap and continuous improvement cadence for MPP, prioritizing future releases based on adoption feedback, value realization, and evolving business needs

Specific Knowledge & Skills

• Strong experience leading enterprise transformation and complex technology-enabled business programs, with disciplined product, program, and project management practices
• Working knowledge of B2B pricing processes and commercial capabilities, including price setting, segmentation, agreements, rebates, chargebacks, approvals, and price execution
• Experience translating business strategy and process requirements into data and solution architecture, including master data, data quality, lineage, controls, and reconciliation
• Experience with enterprise integrations, APIs, ETL/ELT, data lakes or lakehouses, and analytics platforms, SQL, and delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence; experience with Databricks, Vistex, SAP or other ERP platforms, or modern pricing platforms such as PROS, Vendavo, or Zilliant is a plus
• Demonstrated experience managing systems integrators or implementation partners on large-scale enterprise platform builds, including deliverable oversight and vendor accountability
• Familiarity with distribution or healthcare industry pricing dynamics (e.g., rebates, chargebacks, group purchasing organizations) is a plus
• Strong product management capability, including roadmap development, backlog prioritization, user stories, release planning, and Agile delivery methods
• Experience across the full implementation lifecycle, including requirements, configuration, data migration, testing, cutover, hypercare, and operational support
• Demonstrated change management and adult-learning capability, including stakeholder analysis, communications, training, readiness, adoption, and reinforcement
• Strong governance, risk, issue, dependency, vendor, budget, and scope management skills in a complex matrixed environment
• Strong analytical and financial acumen, with the ability to define KPIs, evaluate tradeoffs, validate benefits, and connect platform outcomes to revenue, margin, productivity, and customer experience
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and influencing skills, with the ability to align business, technology, data, and vendor stakeholders around clear decisions and outcomes

General Skills & Competencies

• Excellent people leadership skills and ability to attract, retain, motivate, develop, mentor, and coach team members for high performance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to resolve disputes effectively
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, and executive storytelling skills
• Strong independent decision-making, analysis, and problem-solving skills
• Understand, interpret, and act on financial information and external trends that contribute to business profitability
• Plan and manage complex programs; understand available resources, develop timelines and budgets, and assign clear areas of responsibility
• Lead cross-functional teams to achieve company goals and solve complex business issues effectively
• Excellent planning, prioritization, and organizational skills and techniques
• Communicate effectively with senior management and key stakeholders
• Strong negotiation and internal, vendor, and consulting relationship-management skills
• Ability to influence, build relationships, understand organizational complexities, manage conflict, and navigate a matrixed organization
• Broad professional and managerial capability with a strong understanding of industry practices, company policies, and enterprise controls
• Lead and develop geographically dispersed and virtual teams
• Strong fluency across business process, data, technology, operations, and financial value
• Strategic planning, systems thinking, and continuous-improvement skills

Minimum Work Experience

Typically 8 or more years of increasing responsibility in pricing, commercial transformation, product management, technology implementation, data and analytics, or related professional experience; 3 or more years of people leadership, program leadership, or management experience. Experience leading a major enterprise platform implementation is strongly preferred.

Preferred Education

Typically a Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in Business, Finance, Economics, Data and Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline. Master's degree or global equivalent a plus. PMP, Prosci, Agile/Scrum, product management, or related certification a plus.

Travel / Physical Demands

Travel typically less than 10%. Office environment. No special physical demands required.