- Own the day-to-day approval flow for non-standard pricing, discounts, and commercial terms
- Act as the escalation point for sales representatives
- Build and evolve pricing governance, including discount rules, approval thresholds, and playbooks
- Convert recurring pricing exceptions into documented policy
- Drive deal health across the funnel, including discount discipline, price realization, deal structure, and segment win rate
- Diagnose where deals leak value and implement improvements
- Translate customer segmentation into differentiated pricing guidance and deal strategies
- Partner with Sales to apply pricing strategies in live deals and incorporate them into the ruleset
- Coach sales representatives on pricing confidence and value-based selling
- Partner with Customer Success to adapt pricing and deal playbooks after the sale
- Review, correct, or overrule AI-generated deal desk recommendations
- Build and improve the AI-based deal desk agent
Requirements
- Proven experience in a deal desk, pricing, commercial, revenue operations, or sales-strategy role, ideally in B2B SaaS or fintech
- Experience standing up or scaling a deal desk or pricing process from scratch is a plus
- Strong analytical toolkit, including SQL and/or advanced spreadsheet modeling
- Ability to leverage AI to build a scalable Pricing Deal Desk model, or appetite to learn it
- Fluent in English; German or Dutch is a plus
- Comfortable enforcing discount governance while partnering with Sales
- Critical eye for AI output and ability to catch incorrect recommendations
- Commercial judgment regarding sales processes and segment-based price sensitivity
- Structured, high-ownership approach in a fast, low-process, high-change environment
- Ability to move between detailed data analysis and strategic thinking
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in pricing governance, deal desk operations, and value-based selling strategies, with a strong analytical toolkit including SQL and advanced spreadsheet modeling. Capable of leveraging AI to enhance pricing models and enforce discount governance in a dynamic B2B SaaS or fintech environment.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- Deal Desk Operations
- Pricing Governance
- SQL Proficiency
- Value-Based Selling
- AI Utilization
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
- Pricing Strategy
- Analytical Toolkit
- SQL
- Spreadsheet Modeling
- Discount Governance
Soft Skills
- Critical Eye for AI Output
- Structured Approach
- High-Ownership Mindset
- Coaching Sales Representatives
- Strategic Thinking
Industry Keywords
- B2B SaaS
- Fintech
- Commercial Judgment
- Sales Strategy
- Customer Segmentation
Tools & Technologies