Pricing as a Profession: Setting your Pricing Career with Kevin Mitchell

<div style="font-weight: 400;"> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><strong>Kevin Mitchell</strong> is the President of The Professional Pricing Society (PPS), the worldwide professional organization dedicated to pricing training, education, and networking. </p> <p>In this episode, Kevin shares what a pricing professional should be -- one that is not only adept at pricing strategies but can articulate, communicate, and negotiate in and outside the organization.  </p> <p>He also talks about the pricing career path that the Professional Pricing Society provides in its pricing education. He doubles down on saying that every money that goes into what the company spends on and the revenue generated ties back to a pricing decision at one point in time.  </p> <p>That’s why it is best to learn and understand pricing so we can make the best decisions. Because this would impact the organization and the people who work hard to create value in the products and services available to the consumers. </p> </div> <p> </p> <p><strong>Why you have to check out today’s podcast:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Find out how to be a great pricing professional with pricing leadership</li> <li>Learn about the pricing education Professional Pricing Society provides for someone in terms of forging a pricing career path</li> <li>Hear about the future of pricing considering the uncertainty that concerns us at this time</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p align="center"><strong>“Everything in your company, all the profitability, all of your salaries, all of your bosses' salaries, every Dollar, Yen, Euro, Won that comes into your organization has a pricing decision attached to it.”</strong></p> <p align="center"><em>- Kevin Mitchell</em></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Topics Covered:</strong></p> <p>01:49 - What made Kevin start a Pricing career</p> <p>04:54 - Professional Pricing Society being a subscription company</p> <p>06:19 - Who joins the Professional Pricing Society</p> <p>08:09 - What is a pricing professional</p> <p>11:22 - Two things that