Pricing & Commercial Manager

Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Voluntary and Community Organisations Limited; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An LGBTQ+ advocacy organization is seeking a Pricing & Commercial Manager in London to oversee client finances and lead a team. Ideal candidates will have prior pricing experience, a proactive approach to driving opportunities, and strong analytical skills. The role requires collaboration across teams and flexibility to travel. Benefits include a generous pension scheme, private medical insurance, and additional health services. The organization prides itself on being an equal opportunities employer.

Benefits

Occupational pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Mental health resources

Health and wellbeing services

Increased holiday entitlement with service

Qualifications

• Experience as a pricing professional in B2B or professional services.
• Experience in managing and developing a small team across locations.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of strategic clients from a commercial perspective.
• Act as trusted advisor to Partners and negotiate with stakeholders.
• Lead a small team providing high-quality analysis and support.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Team management

Commercial insight

Education

Qualified Accountant (beneficial)

Job description

Pricing & Commercial Manager role in London office

Manage strategic clients and lead on financial elements of client pitches.

Lead and develop a team across London and Belfast.

Requires experience as a pricing professional and managing a small team.

Flexibility to travel periodically to support team engagement.

We are recruiting for a Pricing & Commercial Manager to join our Finance team in the London office.

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE

The Pricing & Commercial team provides oversight and strategic direction across the global business with the goal of enhancing commercial returns. The remit of the team is split between influencing results at a client level, and driving self-started projects to leverage broader commercial opportunities.

ROLE PURPOSE

To act as business partner and trusted advisor to relationship partners and other senior decision-makers in order to drive commercial returns across the business. This is achieved through the application of pricing best practice within a portfolio of global panels, but also in collaboration with stakeholders across the network to influence and support outcomes across regional offices.

To add further value by analysis of internal and external financial levers to identify actionable insights that can be leveraged to improve commercial returns; via improved processes, methodologies or strategic focus. To lead on key cross-department projects and act as interface between Finance and the Business.

The Pricing & Commercial Manager will manage a small team, based across London and Belfast, providing leadership, guidance, and development to ensure delivery of high-quality analysis and commercial support across the firm. The role will involve regular engagement with the Belfast team, including periodic travel.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage a portfolio of strategic clients from a commercial perspective; advise Partners across the full range of commercial value-add options in addition to rates, and lead on financial elements of client pitches (panel/ client)
• Act as trusted advisor to Partners; influence and negotiate with senior stakeholders relying on knowledge from prior engagements as well as outside-world commercial insight
• Contribute to pricing best practice including the build and maintenance of pricing templates and models. Support application across the network; drive take-up and consistency
• Identify actionable commercial insights to improve returns; drive projects to optimise associated benefits
• Big picture approach to projects working cross-function; able to consider the impact across the firm of new initiatives and inter-dependencies on concurrent projects
• Identify areas for systems and operational improvement within the team; implement and measure
• Ability to understand wider business issues and ensure they are factored into departmental output
• Lead and develop a small team across multiple locations, ensuring effective workload management, mentoring, and skills development.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Experience as a pricing professional (B2B essential / Professional Services preferred)
• Experience in a ‘self-starting’ commercial role; proactively identifying opportunities and driving to a conclusion
• Qualified Accountant (beneficial, but not essential)
• Experience in managing and developing a small team across multiple locations (preferred)
• Flexibility to travel periodically to support team engagement and collaboration
• Outstanding analytical skills and knowledge of economic factors impacting professional services
• Apply a methodical and meticulous approach to solving difficult, sometimes ambiguous, problems
• Results driven; having a proactive, goal-orientated approach to decision making
• Ability to influence at the highest level as a credible, fast-thinking, collaborative and commercial individual
• Excellent communicator; able to explain complex issues to financial or non-financial stakeholders
• Collaborative, hands‑on approach to ensure success across a team‑based environment
• Adjusts style to individual circumstances and demonstrate high levels of emotional intelligence
• Strong time management; able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines and targets
• Ability to quickly learn new IT systems

Should you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our recruitment team who will work with you to provide any adjustments as required. We are an equal opportunities recruiter and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic. We recognise that our people are our most valuable asset, which is reflected in the wide range of benefits that are available to our employees. Some of these benefits include: our occupational pension scheme, group income protection cover, private medical insurance, mental health resources and free apps, health and wellbeing services encompassing an onsite gym, wellbeing centre and GP service, emergency back‑up care support, parental and special leave, holiday entitlement increasing with length of service, holiday trading, season ticket loans and online discounts and lifestyle management services.

Our approach to hybrid working seeks to combine and maximise the benefits of effective remote working with the benefits of being in the office. Our current hybrid working arrangements require office based working for 60% of your time (i.e. three days per week for a full time role) in accordance with our hybrid working policy.

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