Associate Pricing Business Partner

Company Description

At LGC, we partner with customers to help diagnose disease, develop medicines, ensure food safety and protect the environment. Our work supports scientists, healthcare professionals and industry around the world, helping solve some of today's most important global challenges.

Job Description

As an Associate Pricing Business Partner, you'll combine commercial thinking with data-driven insight to influence pricing strategy, improve decision making and work closely with Finance, Commercial and Product teams across the Group.

Job Description

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with pricing, commercial finance or analytical experience who enjoys solving business problems through data. You'll own pricing reviews for your business area, deliver meaningful commercial insight and work with senior leaders to improve pricing decisions across multiple markets.

You’ll lead the development of pricing reporting and analysis, finding opportunities to improve efficiency and insight. This is a highly analytical role, ideal for someone confident in Excel and PowerPoint, with experience using business intelligence tools like Tableau and PowerBI.

Success in this role means taking ownership, solving problems, and continuously improving the quality of decisions related to pricing in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

What you’ll do:

This person will have three main areas of responsibility, but provides the opportunity to develop and get involved with new pricing initiatives and projects as the business need arises.

Business partnering

• Lead cross-functional pricing projects that improve commercial performance and operational efficiency.
• Partner alongside team members at every level of seniority on pricing projects and initiatives
• Develop pricing recommendations and commercial analysis to support business growth.
• Find opportunities to use AI-enabled tools to streamline routine analysis, summarise complex information, improve materials and accelerate pricing decision support.
• Build strong relationships across the business and become a trusted pricing partner for commercial teams.

Pricing review processes

• Own the pricing review process for the business unit, from creation of analysis, leading conversations with stakeholders, and ensuring implementation of new pricing into systems.
• Undertake analysis across product ranges, customers, and regions to find opportunities and challenges for consideration by the business.
• Support the continuous improvement of pricing review workflows, including exploring where automation, AI-assisted analysis or document generation can reduce manual effort while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Contribute thought leadership that supports with strategic decision making
• Own improvements and efficiencies for the process, collaborating with the group pricing function to scale these to improve impact.

Price analytics

• Oversee the creation, delivery and impact of regular price reporting, driving quality and efficiency improvements.
• Develop internal understanding of the impact of pricing decisions.
• Contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and performance tracking in collaboration with Finance and Commercial teams
• Use AI-enabled tools responsibly to support data exploration, insight generation, scenario framing and communication of pricing recommendations, ensuring outputs are validated and commercially sound.
• Support the Head of Pricing with the evolution of pricing data and analytical capabilities and tools to drive efficiency and speed of decision making across the organisation.

Qualifications

We’re seeking an analytical professional, with a solid foundation in data analysis, synthesising and presenting findings to drive decision making. We’ll be looking for evidence of tangible impact from your work, as well as demonstration of a growth mindset and desire to learn and question.

• 3–5 years’ experience in pricing, finance, or commercial roles, with a degree or relevant professional qualification
• Strong analytical skills with advanced proficiency in Excel, Powerpoint, and knowledge of Tableau/Power BI
• Excellent attention to detail and clear, engaging communication style
• Ability to influence and present to external partners
• Collaborative teammate, effective across all levels, with strong time and priority management
• Fluent in English, with experience delivering pricing or related projects

Other desirable skills include:

• Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI, IFS, SAP, Salesforce, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Power Automate, Python, SQL or other automation / AI-enabled productivity tools.
• Exposure to the Life Sciences industry.

Additional Information

Our Values:

• Passion
• Curiosity
• Integrity
• Brilliance
• Respect

We are committed to ensuring that every job applicant and employee is valued for their individual talents. We strictly prohibit discrimination on the basis of age, disability, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or parental status, religion, or belief. We proudly support an inclusive work environment where everyone can compete and succeed based on their merits.

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