Why this role stands out
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to shape pricing strategies and drive significant business impact within a reputable research group, perfect for a leader eager to optimize processes and develop a high-performing team. You'll gain invaluable experience in cross-functional collaboration and strategic decision-making, making this an exciting next step in your career. Apply today to leverage your analytical skills and leadership to influence market competitiveness and company growth.
Quick overview
Job description
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the existing quoting team to deliver accurate, timely, and competitive quotes aligned with business objectives.
- Establish standardized, scalable cost estimating methodologies to ensure robust and accurate quoting.
- Build and maintain a centralized, real-time cost and pricing database integrating labor, material, overhead, supplier pricing, and historical data.
- Ensure cost transparency, version control, and data integrity to support consistent and repeatable pricing decisions.
- Continuously reduce quote cycle time through process optimization, automation, and cross-functional alignment.
- Drive continuous improvement in time-to-market quoting, especially for NPI and customer launch-critical programs.
- Develop and deploy competitive pricing models that balance margin objectives with market realities.
- Analyze win/loss data to refine pricing strategies and improve overall quote conversion rates.
- Support Sales with pricing guidance, scenario analysis, and value-based pricing recommendations.
- Translate market insights into actionable pricing strategies and quoting assumptions.
- Ensure pricing reflects customer value, market conditions, and strategic positioning.
- Collaborate closely with Strategic Sourcing to align supplier strategies, cost reduction initiatives, and should-cost models.
- Act as a key cross-functional leader connecting Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, NPI, and Finance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Quoting, Pricing, Costing, Estimating and/or Proposals.
- 2+ years of Leadership experience managing and developing quoting or commercial teams.
- Manufacturing Industry experience.
- Strong understanding of cost structures in labor-intensive, high-mix manufacturing environments.
- Demonstrated success improving quote speed, accuracy, and win rates.
- Strong analytical, negotiation, and communication skills.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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