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Inside Sales Management Specialist – Global Pricing
About this role
Overall Purpose of Job: As a Inside Sales Management Specialist, you will be a key member of the Global Pricing Sales Team, responsible for pricing-related activities across KOSTAL's product portfolio and throughout the complete product lifecycle, from acquisition to EOP. The position has a strong analytical and commercial focus and is responsible for the preparation, maintenance and controlling of pricing information and commercial calculations.
The role provides the analytical foundation for pricing decisions, customer negotiations and internal commercial management. The position works closely with Sales, Key Account Management, Finance, Controlling, Purchasing, Product Management, R&D and other relevant functions to ensure that pricing is accurate, transparent, commercially justified and consistently maintained. Due to the cross-product and lifecycle-wide scope of responsibility, the role requires a high degree of independent ownership, analytical capability, commercial understanding and attention to detail.
The position also contributes to pricing negotiations and is expected to communicate and present pricing-related analyses and recommendations to relevant stakeholders when required. Main tasks, roles and responsibilities : Take responsibility for global pricing activities across the KOSTAL product portfolio, covering the complete product lifecycle from acquisition to EOP. Prepare and maintain price calculations for new generic parts, ensuring that pricing is based on accurate cost information, defined commercial assumptions and applicable pricing guidelines.
Perform price recalculations for serial parts based on changes in costs, volumes, specifications, customer requirements and other relevant commercial drivers. Prepare comprehensive pricing analyses and negotiation packages to support Sales and Key Account Management in customer price negotiations. Prepare and coordinate generic CBD (Cost Breakdown) calculations, ensuring transparency and consistency of underlying cost structures.
Manage and maintain generic capacity and replacement tool calculations, including analysis of their commercial impact on product pricing. Perform price controlling and proactively identify deviations, inconsistencies, risks and opportunities within the pricing portfolio. Ensure accurate and timely price maintenance in relevant systems and databases throughout the product lifecycle. Take responsibility for IC Pricing activities and ensure appropriate calculation, maintenance and coordination of intercompany pricing.