Special Pricing & Costing Leader

Manufacturing & Production · Production & Assembly · Production Management · Manufacturing Engineering

In short

Die Rolle des Special Pricing & Costing Leaders ist verantwortlich für die Führung des Teams für Sonderpreise und Kostenkalkulationen für die Region Naher Osten und Afrika. Sie managt den gesamten Prozess von Sonderpreisgestaltung und Projektkalkulationen für Regelventile, um genaue, wettbewerbsfähige und profitable kaufmännische Angebote sicherzustellen.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a team of Special Pricing & Costing Engineers supporting the MEA region.
Monitor workload, productivity, quality, and turnaround times to ensure service level expectations are achieved.
Provide technical and commercial guidance on complex, high-value, strategic, and non-standard pricing opportunities.
Support team development through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and continuous capability building.
Lead the review and execution of special pricing requests for control valves, engineered products, and special manufacturing requirements.
Review technical specifications, product configurations, BOMs, and manufacturing processes to establish accurate costs and pricing structures.
Evaluate alternative product configurations, sourcing strategies, manufacturing methods, and processing options to optimize customer value and profitability.
Lead project costing activities during quotation stages to assess commercial feasibility and financial performance.
Establish and maintain robust costing methodologies to ensure accuracy and consistency across the region.
Ensure compliance with company pricing policies, financial controls, approval processes, and delegation of authority requirements.
Collaborate with Procurement and Supply Chain teams to identify cost optimization and sourcing opportunities.
Partner with Manufacturing and Quality teams to evaluate the impact of testing, inspection, documentation, and special manufacturing requirements on product cost.
Work closely with Sales, Engineering, Finance, and Operations teams to support commercial decision-making and project pursuits.
Support Commercial and Business Leadership teams with pricing recommendations and profitability analysis.
Drive improvements in costing models, pricing tools, databases, and standard work processes.
Identify and implement automation and digitalization opportunities within pricing and costing activities.
Analyze variances between estimated and actual gross profit performance and implement corrective actions to improve forecasting accuracy.
Develop and maintain pricing and costing guidelines, knowledge repositories, and work instructions.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives using structured problem-solving and data-driven analysis methodologies.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline.
Minimum 8 years of experience within the Control Valve, Flow Control, Industrial Automation, or related industries.
Experience in Special Pricing, Costing, Order Engineering, Procurement, or a related commercial engineering function.
Strong understanding of control valve products and manufacturing processes.
Ability to interpret engineering drawings, BOMs, product specifications, and technical documentation.
Knowledge of costing methodologies, gross profit analysis, margins, breakeven calculations, and pricing strategies.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Desired Qualifications

Experience working with multiple manufacturing facilities and global supply chains.
Experience collaborating with Sales, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and Finance teams.
Strong proficiency with costing, pricing, quotation, and business management systems.
Experience driving automation, digitalization, and process improvement initiatives.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced commercial environment.

Benefits

medical insurance plans
an Employee Assistance Program
tuition reimbursement
employee resource groups
recognition programs
flexible time-off plans
paid parental leave (maternal and paternal)
vacation
holiday leave

Skills

CostingPricingSalesEngineeringFinanceProcurementSupply ChainManufacturingQualityMechanical EngineeringProduction EngineeringInstrumentation EngineeringChemical EngineeringBOMEnglish

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