Koch Industries

Manager, Pricing Operations (Americas)

Koch Industries$120K — $150K *
Lisle, IL 60532In-Person
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in pricing, commercial, or sales operations
  • Strong leadership and team management skills
  • Proficient in analyzing operational processes and performance metrics
  • Excellent communication and organizational abilities
  • Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional and global teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of pricing and commercial professionals
  • Ensure efficient execution of pricing requests and contract updates
  • Drive improvements in pricing operations and governance
  • Oversee regional execution of pricing programs and addressed implementation risks
  • Maintain compliance with pricing policies and internal controls
  • Track and report on operational metrics for performance
  • Facilitate cross-departmental coordination for commercial initiatives

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts available
  • Life and disability insurance included
  • Retirement savings plan with employer contributions
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs offered
  • Support for infertility, parental leave, and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

As the Americas Region Pricing Manager, you will lead a team of pricing and commercial excellence professionals responsible for reviewing and approving pricing decisions, supporting deal desk activities, and ensuring commercial strategies are executed effectively across the Americas. Partnering closely with Sales, Product Management, Customer Service, and Operations, you will help balance customer needs with strong economic decision-making, ensuring the business wins profitable opportunities while maintaining pricing discipline. In addition to developing your team, you will drive operational excellence, oversee pricing governance, and help shape the vision and execution of the region's pricing strategy.

What You Will Do

Lead Regional Pricing Operations
  • Manage and develop a team of Deal Desk Specialists and regional Business Partners.
  • Establish performance expectations, operating standards, and development plans for team members.
  • Ensure timely and accurate execution of pricing requests, quotations, contract updates, and system maintenance activities.
  • Monitor team performance against service level agreements and operational metrics.
  • Balance resources and workloads to support changing business priorities.

Execute Commercial Decisions
  • Coordinate implementation of approved customer pricing actions and commercial agreements.
  • Support execution of customer negotiations by providing data, documentation, analysis, and administrative support.
  • Ensure pricing approvals and workflow requirements are completed accurately and efficiently.
  • Partner with commercial teams to facilitate smooth implementation of customer and divisional pricing actions.

Drive Operational Excellence
  • Improve speed, quality, consistency, and scalability of pricing operations.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify processes and reduce cycle times.
  • Develop standard work and operating procedures across regional pricing teams.
  • Support adoption of automation, tools, and system enhancements that increase efficiency and reduce manual effort.

Lead Commercial Program Execution
  • Manage regional execution of price increases, contract updates, backlog adjustments, and customer pricing programs.
  • Coordinate activities across Pricing, Sales, Customer Service, Product Management, and Operations.
  • Identify execution risks and drive resolution of implementation issues.
  • Ensure successful completion of critical commercial initiatives within established timelines.

Governance and Compliance
  • Ensure compliance with pricing policies, approval authorities, and business controls.
  • Maintain data quality and integrity within pricing systems and workflows.
  • Support internal audit and documentation requirements.
  • Escalate operational risks and process issues as appropriate.

Performance Management and Reporting
  • Track operational metrics related to productivity, responsiveness, accuracy, and service delivery.
  • Monitor execution quality and identify improvement opportunities.
  • Maintain reporting and dashboards that provide visibility to team performance and workload management.
  • Drive accountability for operational results.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience in pricing operations, commercial operations, sales operations, customer service, order management, finance, or related disciplines.
  • Experience managing operational processes and performance metrics.
  • Demonstrated leadership through direct supervision, mentoring, cross-functional influence, or informal team leadership
  • Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
  • Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional and global environment.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field.
  • Experience with pricing and commercial systems such as Vendavo, PROS, SAP, Salesforce, or similar platforms.
  • Experience leading teams and developing employees.
  • Experience leading operational transformation or process improvement initiatives.
  • Experience supporting large-scale commercial programs and customer implementations.
  • Experience working within a global manufacturing or technology organization.


For this role, we anticipate paying $120,000 - $150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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