Estimating and Pricing Specialist – Senior

Responsibilities

• Leads development of complex estimates and prices from complex technical requirements through the design, build, and support stages of the program
• Leads development, and application of complex estimating, and pricing strategies using innovative computational techniques
• Guides business proposals, evaluates, and makes recommendations based on complex or unique requests for proposals, and substantiates estimates, and pricing
• Leads and performs complex analysis, and provides recommendations in support of pricing, and estimating (risk, financial, competitive, etc.)
• Coordinates and collaborates with proposal teams, and cost element functional owners to develop appropriate basis of estimate, and substantiation of cost estimates, proposals, and other related business decision data
• Provides fact-finding, negotiation and audit support of cost proposal artifacts, and coordinate responses through proposal teams
• Supports, prepares, and briefs senior leader-level presentations
• Identifies, assesses and implements changes to processes, tools, and techniques to simplify estimating, and pricing methodologies, and improve cost estimating accuracy
• Supports compliance activities

• Bachelor's Degree or higher
• 5+ years of experience in a business-related role (finance, contracts, accounting, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience in developing estimates
• 5+ years of experience with the Microsoft Excel application using: formulas, VLookups, pivot tables, charts, etc.
• Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance or higher
• 10+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience preferred
• Experience with United States Government Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) preferred
• Experience performing parametric estimates and data analysis preferred
• Experience using data analysis to drive decision making preferred
• Experience leading projects with little direct supervision and driving projects to completion preferred
• Experience presenting to senior leadership preferred
• Experience performing opportunity and risk analysis preferred