Estimating and Pricing Material Functional Excellence Manager
About The Position
The Estimating and Pricing Material Functional Excellence Manager supports Estimating Functional Excellence. This position reports into the Director, Estimating Functional Excellence. The ideal candidate is a seasoned leader with proven experience driving process improvement initiatives across cross-functional teams, adept at aligning stakeholders and delivering measurable operational gains. They possess strong executive communication skills, routinely presenting complex data and strategic recommendations to Senior Leadership both within and across functions. Comfortable building high-impact, executive-level presentations, they translate analysis into clear, actionable insights and confidently advocate recommendations in leadership briefings to secure alignment and drive results.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 5+ years of experience in any combination of Material Cost Analysis, Material Estimating, Finance, and/or Material Accounting
- 5+ years of experience building proposals utilizing pricing systems, material estimating and pricing tools and processes
- Experience leading teams in a formal and/or informal role
- Experience acting as a subject matter expert in the development, implementation and training of processes and tools
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in business related curriculum such as: Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Business Management, Data Analytics, Marketing, Economics or Math
Responsibilities
- Demonstrates Project management skills with an ability to focus on and finish on large scale simplification projects
- Leads the Government Estimating proposal processes for material estimating and pricing methods, tools and processes related to material costing
- Demonstrates problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
- Consults and manages laterally across large cross-functional teams to understand complex Estimating requirements and processes and be able to translate them to scalable, compliant, best-in-class solutions
- Provides day-to-day leadership of the Material Functional Excellence team
- Conveys complex analysis and recommendations to Directors and Vice Presidents (VPs)
- Leads the rollout of new or enhanced Estimating tools, methods, and processes in the material estimating statement of work
- Oversees the evaluation and development of complex and innovative business cases
- Manages long term data analytics strategy to support complex analyses of material estimates
- Develops database requirement strategies and leads projects to identify new sources of material estimating data and methods of integrating material estimating data
Benefits
- health insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
