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Our client has an opportunity for experienced Estimating & Pricing Specialist to join them on a short-term contract basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established organisation, providing class leading aviation support.
Role: Estimating & Pricing Specialist
Location: Bristol, Hybrid.
Days of work: Mon-Fri
IR35 Status: Inside
Security Clearance: Must be able to achieve Full SC/BPS. Can start with BPSS.
Hourly Rate: Discussed on Application
This is a full-time role with hybrid working options, based out of our clients Bristol site.
Contract Position 6 Months.
This Estimating & Pricing Specialist role will provide functional support and business partnering to an exciting and diverse portfolio of new business opportunities and campaigns across our client's organisation. Working in partnership with stakeholders this role offers challenging and diverse opportunities including the development of accurate cost and price models, risk mitigation and pricing strategies, improving our competitive advantage, client engagement, creating enduring profitable business propositions and optimising the use of available data for improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads development of complex estimates and pricing for technical requirements through the design, build and support stages of the programme
- Leads development and application of pricing strategies using innovative computational techniques
- Supports business proposals evaluates and makes recommendations based on complex requests for proposal, and substantiates the basis of estimates and pricing methods/data
- Develops complex pricing models and business cases
- Leads and performs complex analysis and provides recommendations in support of key pricing and estimating aspects (eg risk, financial, competitive)
- Assures that technical requirements map to and meet solutions and are adequately costed, with challenges applied to ensure best value for money
- Reviews and maintains cost and pricing data, determining database requirements and identifying new data sources
Experience Required:
- Educated to degree level, preferably in a mathematical, financial or business-related discipline
- Strong IT proficiency (particularly Excel and PowerPoint)
- Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- A positive work attitude and team building approach
- An adaptable and resilient character, able to cope with changing requirements and multiple priorities
- Business partnering and influencing skills; able to explain and troubleshoot financial concerns with non-finance professionals
- Prior experience of pricing bid and proposal activity is desirable
- Prior experience of contracting with the UK Ministry of Defence or equivalent is desirable
To be successful in your application it is a requirement that you hold UK 'right to work' at the time of application.
