Senior Director, Deal Desk & Strategic Pricing
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Sales & Business Development
Raleigh, NC, USA
Posted on May 13, 2025
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
How you will make an impact:
Pharma Services Group (PSG or equivalent experience) is a $7B revenue group within Thermo Fisher Scientific. PSG or equivalent experience provides industry leading end-to-end pharma services capabilities to simplify the supply chain for customers.
Lead commercial operations at PSG by managing Deal Desk, strategic pricing, and deal modeling.
What you will do:
Deal Desk
- Establish Deal desk – develop commercial standards and playbook to improve margin, win rates, secure better T&C’s and other P&L outcomes
- Develop People, Process and Tools to accelerate decision making on Deals
- Develop risk evaluation framework and risk adjusted pricing methodology
- Enable AI based to automated decision making with minimized risk
- Standardize deal quoting and development across sites and BUs
Pricing
- Develop Value pricing capabilities
- Develop and implement price funnel strategies
- Price optimization and standardization to reduce margin leakage
- Segmented customer and market strategy to expand margins
- Improve price and margins on mods/change order
- Standardizing price administration to minimize discount leakage
Complex Deals and Financing
- Manage complex deal modelling
- Develop financing capabilities, structure deals with financing instruments
- Partner with Thermo Fisher Financing solutions to deploy existing capabilities
How you will get here:
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business related field required;
Experience
- Strong analytical and commercial competence, with the ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior leadership.
- 10+ years' experience in related roles
- Proven experience in Pharma, CDMO, or large industrial organizations, particularly within highly matrixed environments.
- Expertise in leading pricing functions, including modeling and structuring large, complex deals.
- Experience in project financing and deal structuring is a plus.
- Hands-on experience in establishing and managing a Deal Desk to drive commercial excellence.
- Track record of implementing new digital tools to improve efficiency and decision-making.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills are required to collaborate with various partners.
- Able to deliver high quality effective presentation and understands and deploys best tools / methods to effectively communicate complex topics
- Self-motivated, higher level of flexibility and strong work ethic with the goal to get the job done