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Sven Kopp

Global Pricing Strategy Lead
Mainz

Summary

Hands-on attitude with over a decade of experience in Pricing and an internal consultant approach. Excels in building strong collaboration and cross-functional teams to achieve company goals while embracing analytical complexity. Utilizing learnt and developed best practices from diverse markets like industrial manufacturing, automotive, media and healthcare.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Global Pricing Strategy Implementation Leader

Ingersoll Rand
01.2024 - Current
  • Corporate team ($7B revenue) of 4 pricing managers
  • Development and implementation of a value-based pricing strategy and migrating it into revenue management
  • Defining standards, maturity assessments and trainings
  • Launching corporate knowledge exchange platform for pricing

Pricing Leader

Ingersoll Rand
07.2020 - 01.2024
  • Team lead of 9 pricing managers and analysts
  • Budgeting of pricing targets for $1.5B revenue
  • Planning & execution of price rolls
  • Key account negotiations
  • Competitive & market intelligence
  • Process optimization & regional pricing strategy adaptation
  • Sales excellence and compliance including trainings

Results:

  • Four years consistently outperforming price targets with up to five price actions per year (pre-COVID: 1).
  • No extra headcount but improved employee satisfaction on parallel
  • Reduction of exceptional discounts by 30 percent while speeding up decision making

Senior Manager Health

GfK SE
09.2014 - 03.2016
  • Product price tests, customer satisfaction, brand equity
  • Internal project lead: price&quote tool launch process, Responsible for trainings of 150 users and managing user change requests
  • Health department achieved highest quality and speed in adoption in whole GfK

Consultant

2hm & Associates GmbH
10.2010 - 08.2014
  • Consultant for pricing, M&A and value-based product development, using qualitative and quantitative methods like interviews and conjoint analysis.
  • Core markets: media, automotive, med-tech and healthcare

Education

Magister Artium - Media sciences, business administration

Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität
Mainz
10.2004 - 05.2013

Skills

Cross-functional team leadership

Teamwork and collaboration

Problem-solving

Strategic planning

Analytical thinking

MS-Office including Coding

QLIK Sense

SAP SD

Statistics

Awards

  • 01/01/22, President´s Award of Ingersoll Rand ITS EMEAI
  • 01/01/17, Gardner Denver High Potential Program
  • 03/01/14, GOR Thesis Award 2014 of German association of online research (DGOF)
  • 01/01/14, Sponsorship Award 2014 of HORIZONT Foundation
  • 10/01/13, Thesis of the year award, Institute of media sciences JJGU Mainz

Training

  • Speaker at European Pricing Platform manufacturing conference
  • Participant & speaker at Ingersoll Rand´s Global Network of Price Excellence
  • Peer Reviewer for the SoSci Panel of LMU München
  • Certified Pricing Manager Level 3 - European Pricing Platform

Hobbies

Owning a collection of ~150 board games, thereof one with a pricing manager role included.

Timeline

Global Pricing Strategy Implementation Leader

Ingersoll Rand
01.2024 - Current

Pricing Leader

Ingersoll Rand
07.2020 - 01.2024

Senior Manager Health

GfK SE
09.2014 - 03.2016

Consultant

2hm & Associates GmbH
10.2010 - 08.2014

Magister Artium - Media sciences, business administration

Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität
10.2004 - 05.2013
Sven KoppGlobal Pricing Strategy Lead