Assistant Estimator

Assistant Estimator

Home based - with travel occasionally to a UK office such as, London, Birmingham, Leeds or Newcastle

36,000 - 46,000

Brief

Assistant Estimator needed for a well-known large Facilities Management organisation based at home with occasional travel to a UK office who are looking to employ an experienced and well-rounded Assistant Estimator that takes pride in their work.

The successful candidate would need to be degree educated and have bachelor's degree in either Mths or Physics as well as being a strong user in Excel.

Benefits

• Salary: 36,000 - 46,000 per annum
• 24 day's holiday
• Variable annual bonus based 5-15%
• Pension Plan
• Career Progression

What the role entails:

Some of the main duties of the Assistant Estimator will include:

• Support the solution design process to develop winning propositions aligned with the companies offering, for hard, soft and TFM opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with Bid Leads, Estimators, SMEs, and Operational to ensure solutions are robust and competitive.
• Produce visual representations of delivery models and organisational structures.
• Identify risks and mitigations within proposed solutions and ensure compliance with legislation and industry standards (e.g., SFG20).
• Support supply chain bid activities and Support procurement strategy, Contribute to post-submission clarification responses and tender presentations if required, ability to provide solutions to complex problems.
• Relationships - Build relationships, maintain regular personal contact with internal & external stakeholders, customers, and partners to improve the exchange of information, knowledge, and expertise to enable improved modelling of opportunities.
• Reporting -prepare commercial/pricing updates for mid-bid reviews, divisional sign off, Black Hat reviews and sign off, including caveats and assumptions.
• Support the procurement activity, working closely with procurement teams to provide supply chain pricing.
• Contribute business improvement / efficiency ideas and pricing initiatives.
• A key purpose of this position is to ensure the retention of current business and the acquisition of new business through commercially sound and competitive pricing; actively seeking innovative pricing solutions to assist the bid team in developing winning submissions.

What experience you need to be the successful Assistant Estimator:

• An understanding of industry related specifications and service standards such as SFG20 would be beneficial but not essential.
• An understanding of P&L and Cashflow modelling, with the ability to produce simple P&L analysis alongside project cash flows.
• Ability to think analytically and creatively
• Understanding of business development processes and risk management.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft excel.
• Good stakeholder management skills.
• The role requires numeracy, problem solving, and analytical skills, cooperatively with an ability to work with data .

This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Assistant Estimator to progress their career. If you are interested please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!

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