Client Pricing Costing Manager

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Business Description:

Kantar is a global leader in marketing data analytics and insight. We deliver value across every stage of the research journey from intelligent sampling and data collection to advanced analytics and reporting. Our Client Costing / Pricing Manager plays a central role in working collaboratively across commercial operational and technical teams in order to build a cost that accurately reflects the sampling requirements and effort to deliver.

About the role

Were looking for a Client Pricing / Costing Manager to join our team in Prague and play a key role in how we cost and price our research work.

This role sits at the heart of the commercial process: working closely with Sales Finance Operations and Procurement to build accurate transparent and commercially sound pricing proposals for our clients. Your focus will be on costing and pricing excellence ensuring that assumptions are clear costs are robust and pricing decisions support sustainable growth. The role plays a critical part in supporting sustainable revenue growth by following clear pricing frameworks governance and ways of working across the business.

General responsibilities

• Work closely with commercial teams procurement and function leads (Survey Programming and Data Processing) to enable highquality pricing decisions

• Support business in deriving complex or highrisk pricing proposals

• Act as a central point of contact for pricingrelated queries and escalations

• Build pricing capability across the organisation through guidance training and clear documentation

• Support change initiatives related to pricing transformation including new tools processes or operating models

• Embed a culture of costing discipline commercial awareness and accountability

• Measure and track the impact of pricing improvements on efficiency margin and quality

Specific Responsibilities

• Understanding the Clients requirements and ensuring the costing includes all the necessary sample design and delivery details

• Conduct project feasibility assessments

• Work with vendors/panel-partners Globality buy-desk and other tools to ensure the best pricing

• Understand sample and blend requirements

• Prepare accurate and timely pricing proposals for Clients

• Communicate effectively with teams in order to prepare accurate costs for proposals this includes Sales / Client Success / Function leads and Procurement where applicable

• Follow up with Clients to ensure that proposals are in line with Client expectations

• Attend formal Client briefings and provide input into internal project launch meetings

• Client onboardingif this is a new Client

• Maintain pricing frameworks principles and guardrails to ensure consistency and commercial integrity across the organisation

• Establish clear pricing governance including approval routes escalation thresholds and exception management

• Ensure pricing approaches align with overall commercial strategy margin objectives and risk appetite

What were looking for

Essential experience & skills

• Background in the research industry and / or experience with online research or samplebased pricing

• Strong numerical skills with high attention to detail

• Advanced Excel skills

• AI agentic outlook

• Ability to translate complex inputs into clear and structured pricing

• Confidence working with multiple stakeholders across commercial and operational teams

• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload

• Excellent written and verbal English

Advantageous (but not essential)

• Background in the data analytics industry

• A naturally analytical datacentred mindset

This role would suit a motivated professional who enjoys fostering relationships and working as part of ateam butalso embraces responsibility for their work as an individual.

Why youll love working here:

• Global research for some of the worlds biggest and most iconic brands

• A diverse international team (with colleagues from 40 countries!)

• Clear career growth opportunities with solid training from day one

• A flexible hybrid work model and a bright modern office in central Prague

• And of course great benefits:

  • 25 days of vacation 2 paid volunteering days

  • Mental health support for you and your family

  • Weekly yoga classes

  • Meal vouchers & pension contribution

  • Access to LinkedIn Learning internal training tools and more

Important note

Were looking to fill this role as soon as possible.
Please note that were unable to offer visa sponsorship or relocation support.

Interviews will take place in person at our Prague office.

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At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitiveand alsoto support a pay for performance culture where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious using intelligence passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career thats out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health andwell beingis taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool be locally representative drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the worlds leading data insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think feel shop share vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies Kantars 30000 people help the worlds leading organisations succeed and grow.