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Senior Director, Deal Desk & Strategic Pricing

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Sales & Business Development
Raleigh, NC, USA
Posted on May 13, 2025

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job 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