Portfolio Cost Lead
Leonardo
- Luton
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop and support complex estimating models to help support future bids.
- Manage the day-to-day workload of existing costing team
- Advocate for process improvement to drive efficiencies within the team
- Presenting estimating requirements to internal stakeholders
- Consolidation of multiple line of business inputs.
- Performing data analysis to support affordability and pricing discussions with key stakeholders around contract proposals and internal business cases.
- Ensuring pricing adherence to the latest company standards.
- Ensuring integrity and accuracy is maintained within the estimates.
- Longer Term Focus on future funding requirements.
- Providing support into Tender Vetting process.
- Strong Understanding of estimating processes
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills (Ability to create estimating models)
- Strong financial analysis skills
- Good organisational skills, demonstrated through ability to plan, prioritise and self-manage;
- Good communicator and able to build relationships internally and externally
- Understanding of Economic variables that could affect long-term pricing.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the confidence to present and challenge at various levels of the organisation
- Analytical and logical nature with a strong desire for continuous improvement and personal development
- A Pro-active and dynamic individual who can work collaboratively and are able to recognise, develop and maintain strong stakeholder relationships at all levels of the business
- ERP System (SAP) experience
- Dashboard (Power BI) experience
- Understanding of Project Management principles (Lifecycle management)
- Experience of change management and continuous improvement tools and techniques
- Understanding of Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid delivery methodologies desirable
- Experience in industry standard, portfolio programme delivery, project control methodologies and governance
- Experienced and proven risk management capability