Pricing Administration Team Leader

Would you like to lead an international team while strengthening financial control across a complex commercial environment? Are you ready to turn data into action and guide a team through change? Join Essity and help us excel together.

About the Role

As Pricing Administration Team Leader for North & West, you will lead a team of 12 colleagues supporting the Nordics, Baltics and the UK. You will combine people leadership with operational and financial oversight, ensuring that commercial agreements are accurately reflected in our systems and processes.

This is an opportunity to make a meaningful business impact. Pricing, rebates and customer compensation arrangements affect customers, commercial teams, Finance and business performance. You will create clarity, strengthen controls and use data to identify risks and improvement opportunities.

Working closely with Controllers, Pricing Managers, Commercial Directors and other partners, you will support the continued development of the team towards more specialised and analytical ways of working.

The role reports to the Pricing Administration Manager. You can be located in any of our offices in Gothenburg, Allerod, Espoo, Oslo, Vilnius or Dunstable. Some regional travel is expected to build relationships and maintain a strong connection with team members working across different locations.

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What You Will Do

• People Leadership: Lead, coach and develop 12 team members across several countries and locations, creating trust, engagement and clear direction.
• Pricing Administration: Oversee the accurate and timely setup of prices, trading terms, price-support contracts and rebate agreements in SAP.
• Financial Control: Ensure commercial agreements, accruals, customer compensation arrangements and payments are accurately documented and managed.
• Claims Resolution: Support the effective resolution of pricing discrepancies and customer claims, improving invoice accuracy, customer satisfaction and cash flow.
• Performance Management: Use data and real-time dashboards to monitor performance, identify risks and lead the proactive resolution of urgent issues.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Finance, Controlling and Pricing teams to maintain data integrity and balance operational and commercial priorities.
• Continuous Improvement: Improve pricing-administration processes, workflows and tools while supporting the team through organisational and operational change.

Who You Are

• Relevant university education is advantageous, but significant professional experience in pricing, controlling, commercial finance or financial operations is equally valued.
• You have demonstrated people-leadership experience and the ability to coach and motivate colleagues, ideally across different locations or countries.
• You bring strong financial and commercial understanding, confident Excel and data-analysis skills, and the ability to learn business systems. Experience with SAP, pricing operations or B2B environments is an advantage.
• You are analytical, accountable and improvement-oriented, with strong stakeholder-management skills. You communicate respectfully under pressure, collaborate effectively in a matrix organisation and create stability during change.
• You have strong written and spoken English skills and can communicate confidently with colleagues and senior stakeholders across different functions and countries.

Application

Interested? If you are up for the challenge and think this sounds like you, apply online today! Kindly note that due to GDPR we will not accept applications via mail.

We do conduct reference checks, and we may conduct background checks in the final stages of the recruitment process.

What We Can Offer You

Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Join us to improve well-being for people and drive positive change for society and the environment. At Essity, you'll feel valued, empowered to grow, and challenged to achieve business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere.

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Application End Date:

24 nov. 2026
Job Requisition ID:
Essity266163