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  • What is it?

    During this intensive 2 day pricing training, you will learn, discuss and reflect how to increase your organisational pricing maturity and how to define your road map to realise margin improvement. 

    You will gain insights in the elements that will influence price and learn the different steps of an optimal pricing process, with both classic and innovative price setting methods for both B2B and B2C markets.   You’ll also discuss how to detect which factors cause price pressure and how to handle them.  The pricing course is punctuated with life cases and practices. 

    Objectives

    • Learn to assess your organisational pricing maturity and reflect on your own path towards pricing excellence;
    • Reflect on your organisational capabilities and define your prio-settings;
    • Have a good understanding of the difference price setting techniques to link them with your price strategy;
    • Learn about value, which price strategy to choose ;
    • Learn about the 20 most used pricing plans ;
    • Learn about the most used price setting techniques ;
    • Gain insight in understanding price elasticity ;
    • Gain insight how to bridge the most important knowledge gaps to set a value based price;
    • Learn how to avoid price pressure and price wars and how to fight them is fighting is unavoidable;
    • Gain expert insight and advice from an expert trainer with vast relevant cross-functional experience from both industry and consultancy.

    This is your opportunity to learn, discuss and reflect how to optimise your pricing and margins !

    Participant Profile

    Pricing team member, pricing manager, marketeers, product managers, key account managers, financial professionals, controllers, market research professionals, and pricing experts – from B2B, B2C and B2ME industries.

    In fact, it’s for everyone who wants to gain a solid basis in pricing or spice-up their pricing skills in an intensive 2-days training.

     

  • Module 1 : Reflections on the importance and impact of pricing

    What can go wrong ?
    What is a good price ?
    The impact of pricing
    Art or science ?
    What is pricing exactly ?
    Where are you in your pricing excellence practice
    Reflections on a proven path towards pricing excellence

    Module 2 : Is there a proven path to improve organisational pricing maturity ?

    What can we learn from the leaders in pricing (cross industrial) ?
    And from whom do we want to learn ?
    Reflections on your own organisational pricing capabilities
    What’s good, what do we need to improve ?
    Discuss and learn the challenges and priorities to improve your pricing maturity roadmap
    Concrete actions to increase your pricing maturity : make it really happen !
    Pricing strategy

    Module 3 : Which pricing plan to select ?

    The 30 pricing plans to choose between …

    Module 4 : Closing the classic pricing knowledge gaps before setting ‘the right price’

    Understanding price segmentation
    Understanding willingness to pay
    Understanding price elasticity

    Module 5 : How to set your prices ?

    The 11 most frequently used pricing methods

    Module 6 : How to set value based pricing in practice ?

    How to set a value based price in practice
    How to calculate economic value for B2B products/services ? 

    Module 7 : How to behave as price leader/follower/challenger ?

    Wrap-up / lesson learned + personal action plan

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    Founder, European Pricing Platform & Partner Consultant, VC
    Pol Vanaerde

    Pol has a successful market strategy track-record. He was responsible for the European launch of Alpro Soyfoods and elected as marketer of the year in Belgium. Later he joined McBride PLC (private label detergents & cosmetics) as European Marketing Manager and Conoco-Philips as New Business Manager. Pricing was always one of his key responsibilities.

    He is the initiator and president of the European Pricing Platform and responsible for the vision development and daily management. Furthermore, Pol is the founder of Vanaerde Consulting a market strategy + pricing consulting company – and guest lecturer at several international universities and has a track record of a large portfolio of in-companies (product management, market strategy and price management) in different industries worldwide.

  • Venue Information - Hotel NH Sants Barcelona

    The NH Sants Barcelona hotel, formerly known as NH Numancia, is located in the heart of Barcelona’s financial district, just a few steps from the trade fair and the Sants train station. You can get to the city center in 15 minutes on the metro and Camp Nou, the home ground of Barcelona’s soccer team, is only 20 minutes away on foot.

    Address: Numancia 74 | 08029 Barcelona |Spain

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    ** EPP has secured a preferential room rate for the attendees to this event. In order to make your reservation and benefit from this special rate, please click here. This offer is subject to availability, so early booking is advised. ** 

  • Dates

    Type : In-Person
    Start : 30 Nov 2022 at 09:00
    End : 01 Dec 2022 at 17:00
    Duration : 2 days
    Location : Barcelona

    Training Fees

    The fee for Strategies & Tactics of Pricing is €1895.00

    The program fee includes

    The training fee includes :

    • Course material - print and digital
    • Coffee, tea & refreshments during the course
    • Lunches during the course

    It does not cover travel, accommodation or other incidentals.  We recommend you to book your flights/travel/accommodation in advance to avoid last rates.
    We try to negotiate special hotel rates if possible - please ask the hotel for the best rates.

    If you have special requests, or you prefer a customised pricing programme, please connect with Ripsime Matevosian : Ripsime.matevosian@pricingplatform.eu

    * EPP reserves the right to cancel or postpone events/sessions, or alter the country, location or venue in case of force-majeur, unforeseen circumstances, or if minimum registration numbers are not met. In case of such cancellation, postponement or alteration by EPP, registrants will receive a rollover credit for attendance at the rescheduled sessions. For more information please have a look at our  Terms & Conditions

    Training Fee Discounts

    • BRING A COLLEAGUE AND GET -15% discount on both tickets
    • REGISTER WITH 3 AND GET -20% discount on your tickets


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