Special Pricing & Costing Leader

Role overview

Team leadership and pricing

• Lead, coach, and develop Special Pricing & Costing Engineers; monitor workload, productivity, quality, and turnaround times.
• Provide technical and commercial guidance on complex, high-value, strategic, and non-standard pricing opportunities.
• Lead special pricing requests for control valves, engineered products, and special manufacturing requirements.
• Review specifications, product configurations, BOMs, and manufacturing processes to establish accurate costs and pricing.
• Evaluate product configurations, sourcing, manufacturing methods, and processing options to optimize customer value and profitability.
• Lead quotation-stage project costing and assess commercial feasibility and financial performance.
• Maintain costing methodologies and ensure compliance with pricing policies, financial controls, approval processes, and delegation requirements.

Collaboration and improvement

• Identify cost optimization and sourcing opportunities with Procurement and Supply Chain.
• Assess cost impacts of testing, inspection, documentation, and special manufacturing requirements with Manufacturing and Quality.
• Support commercial decisions and project pursuits with Sales, Engineering, Finance, and Operations; provide pricing recommendations and profitability analysis.
• Improve costing models, pricing tools, databases, and standard work; identify automation and digitalization opportunities.
• Analyze estimated-versus-actual gross profit variances, implement corrective actions, and improve forecasting accuracy.
• Maintain pricing and costing guidelines, knowledge repositories, and work instructions; lead structured, data-driven improvement initiatives.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least eight years of experience in 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, 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 English communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with multiple manufacturing facilities and global supply chains.
• Experience collaborating across Sales, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and Finance.
• 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 and development

• The company describes medical insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition programs, and flexible time off, including paid parental leave, vacation, and holidays.
• Training and development opportunities include onboarding, virtual and in-person training, mentorship, coaching, project management, and on-the-job learning.