Sr. Director, Strategic Pricing & Planning

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. The Global Head of Strategic Pricing is responsible for leading Alcon's global pricing strategy across Surgical and Vision Care businesses. This executive leader develops and executes the company's long-term pricing vision to maximize value creation, revenue growth, profitability, market access, and competitive advantage across all geographies and product portfolios.

The role provides enterprise-wide leadership for pricing strategy, pricing governance, launch pricing, lifecycle pricing, value-based pricing, commercial pricing excellence, and pricing capability development. The Global Head of Strategic Pricing partners closely with Executive Leadership, Global Franchises, Market Access, HEOR, Finance, Commercial Excellence, and Regional Leadership teams to ensure pricing is a strategic driver of business performance and sustainable growth. This position leads a global organization of pricing professionals and serves as the senior advisor on pricing-related decisions, investments, and transformation initiatives.

• Enterprise Pricing Strategy Leadership Define and lead Alcon's global pricing vision, strategy, and roadmap across all business franchises and geographies. Establish enterprise-wide pricing principles, value frameworks, and governance standards Drive value-based pricing methodologies, incorporating clinical value, economic value, competitive positioning, customer willingness-to-pay, reimbursement, and market access considerations Ensure pricing strategies support Alcon's long-term growth objectives, profitability targets, and corporate strategy.
• Portfolio and Product Pricing Leadership Provide oversight of portfolio pricing strategies across Surgical and Vision Care Lead strategic pricing assessments for product launches, line extensions, acquisitions, lifecycle management, and portfolio optimization. Establish global price architecture, guardrails, corridors, floors, and premiumization strategies. Ensure pricing is integrated into innovation, stage-gate, and product development processes. Guide strategic responses to competitive market dynamics and emerging technologies.
• Strategic Planning and Business Growth Develop long-range pricing and profitability strategies aligned with corporate growth objectives. Identify emerging market opportunities, risks, and pricing trends through ongoing market surveillance. Support enterprise strategic planning, investment decisions, and business development initiatives. Evaluate acquisitions, partnerships, and new business opportunities through pricing and value creation lenses. Provide executive recommendations on strategic alternatives that maximize shareholder value.
• Market Access and Value Strategy Ensure alignment between pricing, reimbursement, health economics, and market access strategies. Partner with Market Access and HEOR teams to maximize value realization across global. Establish frameworks for launch sequencing, international reference pricing considerations, and access optimization. Guide evidence-generation strategies that support price realization and value communication.
• Pricing Governance and Commercial Excellence Establish and chair global pricing governance forums. Drive and support pricing policy development and compliance across regions and businesses. Ensure consistent pricing decision-making and disciplined exception management. Oversee pricing performance measurement, monitoring, and reporting. Lead enterprise pricing transformation initiatives, technology investments, and analytics capabilities.
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