Costing Manager / Pricing Manager (Bids Manager)

Location: The role is based in our clients headquarters towards the east of Mid Ulster, with some hybrid work from home working available

On Offer: A base of £45-55K plus a healthy bonus and benefits

Monday to Friday business hours with an early finish on Fridays

Full-time permanent position

The Company:

A large international machinery manufacturer who takes bespoke machinery from concept and design, through build and commissioning on site. With a strong order book, they are continuing to expand, as they have done this past couple of years.

Due to business demand, a new costing team was established to support the governance of cost control. Now operational for over a year, the team requires dedicated leadership to manage and implement strategic plans and objectives as the function continues to grow and evolve. The successful candidate, alongside managing a small team of two of costing experts, will be responsible for understanding the complete life cycle of the projects and all associated costs, from project kick-off to completion. All learning will be used to collaborate with the proposals team to accurately and competitively price all future projects to maximise company profitability. The Costing Manager will own the product costing model process to ensure that the company are maintaining accurate costing models, resulting in more accurate and competitive future pricing to enable future sales. The role reports into Director level.

Key Responsibilities of this Costing Manager / Pricing Manager (Bid Manager) position:

• Work with the Director to create and ensure adherence to the departmental annual plan ensuring alignment to the overall company vision
• Work collaboratively with the Supply Chain team to identify cost drivers or significant changes within supplier pricing models/pricelist
• Manage and mentor the costing team to ensure a people-centric, positive, supportive, and empowering team culture. Develop a stepwise pathway towards improvement and development of the team, including the creation of training and personal development pathways to develop the skills and experience within the team. Provide advice and expertise to the team where required
• Ensure that each costing team member has relevant objectives, that they understand how their work contributes to the organisation's performance and that regular performance reviews are carried out, with any underperformance identified being promptly addressed
• Provide analytical support to Manufacturing pricing to ensure that transfer pricing is aligned to market values
• Identify and implement the most appropriate data gathering practices for monitoring, controlling, and reporting costing data
• Own the product costing model process to ensure regular updates and accurate costing models are being maintained to provide the company with more accurate and competitive pricing proposals for future sales.
• Collaborate with the product owners and the presales team on the annual cycle of maintaining the costing models, while reducing costs and escalating any trends/risks that have been identified to senior stakeholders
• Manage the project forecasting cycle, while collaborating with the project managers to ensure that there is adherence to budget. Ensure forecasting is completed in a timely manner to enable the right information to be fed back into the financial statements
• Present the findings of the monthly project forecasting to senior management and influence internal parties within the meeting to accept different approaches or practices. Ensure stakeholders have the visibility of underlying trends so strategic decisions can be made
• Strengthen learning and engagement throughout the business by accurately maintaining the feedback loops from the full project cycle, ensuring all learnings are shared back to the Presales function for the next project
• Identify and implement efficiencies within the costing processes by managing process and system improvements, while collaborating with ongoing inter-departmental & business improvements
• Play a key role in supporting and influencing business decisions by providing cost insights and analysis and will be actively involved in strategic projects where cost considerations are critical
• Continuously monitor the health of the newly created costing department to gain a comprehensive understanding of the current way of working and identify the gaps between current practice and best practice. Implement changes to current practice to close gaps towards best practice

Essential Criteria for this Costing Manager / Pricing Manager (Bid Manager) position:

• Degree educated in a relevant discipline with minimum 5 years' experience in a costing, engineering, project management, bids or commercial role OR a minimum of 8 years' experience in a costing, engineering, project management, bids or commercial role
• Demonstratable leadership and interpersonal skills including the ability to interact effectively and professionally with individuals at all levels
• Be very financially apt
• Proficient using an ERP system
• Ability to understand and interpret a BOM
• Strong self-motivation with exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail - Ability to think logically and troubleshoot problems

Sponsorship is not available for this role, please only apply if this is not required and if you can work permanently in NI without any sort of restrictions

If this role is of interest, or if you have a relatable skillset that might match other similar vacancies; then please send an updated CV via the link on the page - or get in touch with Hugh Nugent to discuss in absolute confidence.

Hugh has 13+ years' experience specifically in Engineering / Manufacturing Recruitment and specialises across Senior Executive Placements, Design/Development and Quality Engineering roles throughout Ireland.

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This role would be particularly suitable for those from the Lisburn, Belfast, Portadown, Lurgan, Craigavon, Banbridge, Ballynahinch, Armagh, County Down, Hillsborough, Moira, Antrim, Tyrone, Dungannon, Cookstown, Omagh, Magherafelt, Maghera, Derry, Ballymena areas.