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DORIS McCOY

Lebanon,IN

Summary

Highly effective Pricing Leader with a deep understanding of competitive markets and pricing strategies. Demonstrates a strong commitment to formulating and implementing discipline and strategies for profitable sales growth and price realization. Operates with unwavering ethics, integrity, and urgency. Possesses exceptional interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with individuals at all levels of the organization. Proven track record in managing a diverse staff to consistently meet internal and external customer expectations. Strong belief in the importance of servant-leadership and conducting business with humility.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Director Pricing, Commissions & Billing

Herff Jones
04.2023 - Current
    • Drive strategy to grow market share using competitive intelligence and pricing KPIs while enhancing operational and organizational efficiencies around pricing, billing, and policy in an increasingly challenging business environment upon losing lucrative yearbook business in split with Varsity Brands.
    • Institute formal procedures and tools to enforce adherence to pricing and policies that impact the bottom-line. Results in less than 6 months include identification and mitigation of $500K+ in pricing and billing errors generated by legacy system/process deficiencies.
    • Lead team of SMEs to define future state requirements for an improved ERP with better pricing and billing functionality.
    • Support the overall corporate goal to remove redundancies, drive efficiencies and reduce administrative burden on the business and capture cost savings.

Director Pricing & Commissions

Herff Jones
04.2018 - 04.2023
    • Recruited, hired, and trained pricing team members to create the pricing function from the ground up to support $350M business across five product categories.
    • Spearheaded an innovative approach to analytics and the process for receiving, reviewing, approving and documenting pricing and commission exceptions leading to a reduction in the number of exceptions and improving price realization.
    • Leveraged competitive price data collected by the pricing team and consumer insights from the marketing team to inform annual pricing actions and drive change in strategy. Reversed cultural norm of holding price YOY to increasing pricing YOY in line with inflation.
    • Interacted with independent sales partners and internal sales leaders to establish trust and collaboration on sales strategies involving price discounts and promotions.

Pricing Manager

United Technologies Climate, Controls and Security
12.2015 - 04.2018
  • Developed and implemented pricing strategies to support the business, balancing organizational objectives with customer needs and internal profit/price realization goals.
  • Managed Residential HVAC pricing for U.S., Canada and Export locations in support of ~$5B in annual revenue; approved price proposals presented by analysts to support profitable market share growth and sustainable revenue.
  • Reduced response time and increased efficiency of pricing analysts work by creating internal process improvements.
  • Developed metrics derived from several systems and company data repositories to track growth in sales, price realization and organizational efficiency.
  • Provided input and leadership over hiring, training, performance, and growth opportunities for marketing support staff.

Senior Pricing Analyst

Carrier Corporation - United Technologies
08.2006 - 12.2015
  • Responsible for pricing and estimating in support of $500M + in annual sales covering ten major distributor accounts in the U.S and Canada.
  • Conducted financial analysis to evaluate pricing performance; assisted in the formulation of pricing strategies, including identifying request for proposal requirements and cost-volume strategies.
  • Supported the business by carrying out price increases and pricing agreements tactically using SAP, SharePoint, MS Access and other tools.

Financial Analyst

Delphi Electronics & Safety Systems
03.2003 - 08.2006
  • Supported capital budget management for N.A Operations with divisional annual revenue of $5B.
  • Provided key metrics such as NPV, IRR, Cash Flow and OI for audio peripheral product lines within Integrated Business Systems unit.
  • Performed forecasting, budget and variance analysis related to materials expense, cost of goods sold and various sundry accounts.

Internal Controls Analyst

Delphi Electronics & Safety Systems
02.2000 - 03.2003

Performed internal audits of Engineering, Purchasing, Information Systems, HR and Customer Satisfaction processes and procedures.

  • Identified high-risk areas and consulted on policy and procedure.
  • Performed monthly follow-up reviews on corrective action plans and reported quarterly results to the executive committee.
  • Coordinated audits with external auditors to ensure successful communication and cooperation with department managers.

Buyer - Indirect Services

Delphi Delco Electronics
01.1997 - 02.2000
    • Negotiated supplier contracts for Engineering, Contract Labor, Re-manufacturing Services, Product Test & Validation, Advanced Development and other Indirect Services to support business with annual revenue of $5.0B
    • Supported objective to exceed customer expectations in responsiveness and provide high quality contract services while achieving annual cost savings goals.

Education

Master of Science - Banking and Financial Services Management

Boston University
Online
01.2015

Bachelor of Science - Business Finance and Economics

Indiana University
Kokomo, IN
01.2005

Skills

  • Pricing Strategy and Implementation
  • Analytics and KPIs
  • Policy Creation and Implementation
  • Internal Controls Adherence
  • Collaborative Leadership
  • Team Building and Motivation
  • Culture Transformation
  • Core Values Management
  • Communication
  • Negotiation

Accomplishments

  • Built a pricing team from the ground up establishing standard work for annual price increases, exceptions approvals, performance monitoring, and documentation of competitive intelligence for strategic decision-making.
  • Drove pricing discipline and implemented tools for the business to analyze, manage and reduce pricing exceptions, resulting in higher price realization and an ASP increase of 33% during historically high inflationary periods (excluding yearbook business, 2024 CYTD vs 2020CYTD Revenue inc 32% or $52M, Units slightly down 0.8% or 150k CYTD).
  • Collaborated with sales team to formulate and implement a pricing strategy that resulted in 3% increase in HVAC market share in Canada and a 7% increase in revenue.
  • Created price study template for use by pricing analysts for improved efficiency and quality of analytics which reduced turn-around time by 50%.
  • Co-developed and launched SharePoint database that allowed engineering to recover $40k in tooling expense credits over a one year period. Established go-forward process to mitigate margin loss in future years.
  • Collaborated with key leaders of core competencies to ensure compliance with internal control standards and SOX requirements.
  • Negotiated long-term contract to put in place an engineering testing center through a partnership with Purdue University and a minority-owned contract house (Alliance Group Technologies) which later expanded to become an award-winning supplier for Delphi Automotive Systems.
  • Worked with a cross functional team to negotiate a multi-year agreement for an integrated system to manage contract resources over multiple divisions. Streamlined independent divisional agreements to a singular global agreement utilizing one integrated platform to improve efficiency and capture cost savings estimated at $500k+ annually.

Timeline

Sr. Director Pricing, Commissions & Billing

Herff Jones
04.2023 - Current

Director Pricing & Commissions

Herff Jones
04.2018 - 04.2023

Pricing Manager

United Technologies Climate, Controls and Security
12.2015 - 04.2018

Senior Pricing Analyst

Carrier Corporation - United Technologies
08.2006 - 12.2015

Financial Analyst

Delphi Electronics & Safety Systems
03.2003 - 08.2006

Internal Controls Analyst

Delphi Electronics & Safety Systems
02.2000 - 03.2003

Buyer - Indirect Services

Delphi Delco Electronics
01.1997 - 02.2000

Master of Science - Banking and Financial Services Management

Boston University

Bachelor of Science - Business Finance and Economics

Indiana University
DORIS McCOY