Sr. Manager, Costing & Pricing

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Sr. Manager, Costing & Pricing to join our Costing & Pricing Department based in Grand Prairie, TX.

You will be responsible for gathering, analyzing and preparing cost Proposals, including the budgets and all accompanying financial and required documentation in support of proposals. Knows and applies applicable government regulations as needed (i.e. FAR)

Meet the Team:

Our Finance and Accounting team members need excellent analytical and communication skills to successfully manage our financial portfolio. Our teams provide key analytics - from month-end closing to performance management analysis for our partners. If you're analytical, detail oriented and have a passion for numbers, you'll enjoy working with our cross-functional global team.

Your Working Environment:

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

How We Care for You:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP")
• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan ("EAP") and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

Your Challenges:

Primary Responsibilities:

Costing/Pricing: 35%

• Oversees cost and pricing for a range of proposals to include both domestic and international opportunities and ranging in size of complexity.
• Ensure costing information provided is timely, accurate and supportable in response to requests
• Coordinates requirements for all costing data by working closely with cross functional team of sales, engineering, purchasing, operations, quality to meet customer deadlines.
• Ensures functional areas understand what substantiation is required to support their estimates for each proposal
• Supports team to provide cost effective solutions to our customer. This will include research, standardization, collaboration with peers/managers/directors, and translating into customer price breakdowns and data requirements.
• Maintains and improves process to effectively compile and communicate cost estimates
• Assists and leads projects in the continued developments of costing tools with effective use of costing information and technical information to generate accurate landed costs.
• Develop, evaluate and implement pricing models based upon the current business situations and market dynamics, and work with management to build next generation pricing tools.
• Work with marketing and sales to investigate market trends to keep pricing models market-conformed and aligned to revenue targets while performing competitive pricing analysis.
• Monitors on-going competitive environment
• Strong management and detailed organization of data support files
• Leads internal meetings for the overall review of all costing and pricing components and responsible for the completeness and accuracy. Able to interact efficiently with all levels and responsibilities in the organization by communicating costing and pricing requirements.

2. Business Cases: 35%

• Create business cases which provide management sufficient cost, margin and price information and analysis for proposed and established prices to support business decisions.
• Leads finance offer evaluation process to retrieve approvals needed for release of offer to customer.

3. Proposal Support: 10%

• Creates basis of estimates (BOE) for proposals, if required, as justification for pricing to customer. Ability to train team and colleagues on the use of BOEs for proposal development.
• Contribute to writing of pricing content in proposals submitted to the customer.
• Meets company internal and customer external requirements necessary for contract negotiations and award
• Translate costing sheet to customer pricing sheet- based requirements of the RFP.

4. Staff Management and Development: 20%

• Manage, develop, mentor and coach staff to ensure staff exhibit company core values and behaviors, interact professionally with the team/company/external parties, and maintain and/or improve those skills and knowledge necessary to adequately perform their assigned jobs.
• Provides training as needed to colleagues on templates that could be used for gathering costing information for proposals.
• Foster innovative mind-set in order to continually improve processes and ways of working.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned.

Your Boarding Pass:

• Required: Minimum of ten (10) years of related experience
• Required: Strong experience in costing, pricing, and data analytics with high degree of accuracy.
• Required: Disciplined approach to data and strong organizational skills
• Required: Strong analytical, technical, customer service, product knowledge, supply chain, quality focus.
• Required: Strong excel knowledge and ability to model costing concepts, complex formulas and integrate with other files.
• Required: Strong sense of customer requirements and ability to work in fast paced environment to meet deadlines.
• Required: Ability to prioritize and complete project tasks on-time by working with cross functional teams.
• Required: Self-motivated with the ability to work independently as required.
• Required: Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Required: Understanding of FAR 12 commercial item contract requirements
• Preferred: Understanding of FAR 15 government item contract requirements
• Required: Able to communicate effectively, written and verbal to others, individually and in group settings in English
• Required: Proficiency with Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word or comparable systems
• Up to 5% Domestic and International Travel involved in this role

Physical Requirements:

• Onsite: 95%
• Vision: able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings. Daily
• Hearing: able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on production floor including safety warnings or alarms. Daily
• Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications. Daily
• Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts. Daily
• Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. 2-3 times a year, carries 5-10 lbs. on a daily basis
• Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. 2-3 times a year, carries 5-10 lbs. on a daily basis
• Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools. Daily
• Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on computer. Daily
• Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving. Several times a week
• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on production floor. Daily
• Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice. Monthly
• Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents): able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces. Daily
• Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site

US Personhood status under ITAR definition (i.e. U.S. Citizen, green card or person covered under our existing ITAR license) is required for this job opportunity.

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This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Helicopters, Inc.

Employment Type:

US - Direct Hire

Experience Level:

Professional

Remote Type:

On-site

Job Family:

Leadership

Job Posting End Date: 08.02.2024

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