Bid Costing Manager Job Montérégie area,St-Bruno-de-Montarville Province de Québec Canada,Finance & Banking

Location: St-Bruno-de-Montarville

Description Job Title:
Bid Costing Manager
Location:
St-Bruno, QC
Employment Type:
Permanent, Full-Time, Direct Placement
Industry: Rail
About the Opportunity:
Purpose of the job

To prepare, lead and manage all costing and pricing aspects of a tender within the tender team, with the support of Finance Tender Manager on all financial aspects (from Business Opportunity Review up to Tender Transfer Meeting)

To support Bid manager or Bid sub-system managers on target cost, cost consolidation and cost challenge per sub-system

To support the Project team on costing aspects until CPR1 (Critical Project Review n°1)

Main responsibilities

Prepare quick costing during pre-tendering phase, based on product cost database and return of experience from project execution

Support the Bid manager in the preparation of the IFQ (Instruction For Quotation), in accordance with pricing strategy

Define the cost structure for the bid according to RFP (terms and conditions, etc), sales requirements, etc

Define target cost per activities and/or sub system in coordination with Bid sub-system managers, matching with winning price and identified gaps versus Reference Solution

Lead cost estimation activities based on target cost approach with all participating units and métiers

Lead cost improvement actions to reach tender cost /target price using all competitiveness levers, and challenge the contributors

Lead a collaborative work with Finance Tender Manager to optimize Financial costs (bonds, financing, hedging, insurance, taxes, etc), and to improve overall competitiveness of the bid

Consolidate tender costs commitment and selling price as per financial rules and in the consolidation tool (Mercury/2.1/ or Ody.C)

Control the level of robustness of the costing (consistency between scope of work, costing received and planning), and use the Costing robustness assessment grid

Support proactively the Bid manager and the Finance Tender Manager during the tender validation process

Prepare the Costing package for TRM (Tender Review Meeting) (cost analysis/bridges, standard report, cash curve, etc), and support the tender leader on the preparation of the pricing sheet for the customer

Lead cost estimation activities, in coordination with Bid sub-system manager, for changes discussed with the customer during negotiation phase and update the cost commitment

Transfer tender costing data (with related assumptions) to Project (TTM / Tender Transfer Meeting) + variance analysis (from TRM/ Tender Review Meeting -->TTM/ Tender Transfer Meeting)

Support on demand the Project team on costing for variation orders

Job Requirements MAIN REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

Engineering degree and/or Business School

Minimum 5 years of experience in Industry

Experience in Railway industry (Desirable)

Knowledgeable of Costing, in similar industry (Desirable)

Ability to analyze and challenge contributor's commitments

Ability to define cost impact of terms & conditions

Sufficient awareness of financial rules and contractual aspects (bonds & guarantees, …)

Experience in Value analysis, Product cost and Cost models

Rigor and good analytical skills

Fluent in English and French (as an asset)

Comfortable in an international and a multi-cultural environment

Transparency, autonomy, anticipation, initiative, reactivity