Job Reference: /VK/30-08/1282/28
Job Title: Pricing Analyst
Location: Ipswich
Salary: Competitive
Hours per week: Monday to Friday -09:00 - 17:30 - 37.5 hours per week
Business Overview
OCS is a global facilities services business with 120,000 colleagues and 8,000 customers across the UK, Europe, APAC and Middle East regions. It has recently seen Atalian Servest become part of the group meaning has that in the UK & Ireland we have a front-line workforce of more than 45 thousand people.
Job Overview
The primary purpose of the role is to provide accurate and competitive cost estimates for both new and existing business within the Private facilities management sector for OCS UK. Focus will be on the development of the contract specific cleaning, security and other facilities management pricing solutions to drive resource build and methodology inclusive of labour, machinery, technology and materials to deliver against customer specifications.
There will be a need to closely align with Business Development, Operations, Bid Support, Finance and Commercial colleagues to form a seamless virtual team in this regard. Senior Pricing Analyst will be responsible for leading the financial/pricing review on Bid ‘sign Off's' with the CFD & MD of Private FM. The Pricing Analyst, whilst reporting to the Commercial Finance Director, will provide commercial & finance support to the Private FM business development team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide commercially sound and competitively priced solutions in support of bid/rebid activity using, for example, optimal cleaning and security methodology as appropriate to specification requirements and operational delivery
- Undertake site visits and surveys as appropriate to build site/contract specific solutions and schedules
- Review, understand and measure building plans to support completion of full cost estimates
- Use external/internal benchmarking data to support estimating process
- Develop and maintain internal benchmarking data
- Provide collateral in support of resource build/solution such as rosters/shift patterns/schedules for bid requirements as appropriate
- Work collaboratively with Heads of Service to identify innovative/alternative service solutions
- Work collaboratively with other service stream leads/estimators to identify opportunities for multi-skilling of roles to drive efficiency
- Develop plans/schedules and cost information to support mobilisation and transition process
- Support contract improvement process and retention through re-engineering and effective challenge to existing and suggested solutions, both within OCS and supply chain
- Maintain market and service knowledge and its application to our solutions through networking, industry affiliations and competitor awareness
About You:
- Degree level or equivalent preferred
- Professional Finance qualification preferred
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively at all levels both internally and externally
- Experience of delivering to strict deadlines
- Experience of presenting information in a logical and concise manner
- Involvement with the review of commercial elements of bids
- Ability to quickly build both personal & functional credibility with operational managers
- Proactive, customer and results focused
- Ability to plan and prioritise workload in order to ensure full-service delivery within area of responsibility
- Excellent MS Excel skills and general high level of IT literacy across MS Word, MS PowerPoint etc.
How to apply
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