Your new company
You will be joining a leading UK infrastructure services provider with a strong presence across the highways sector. The organisation delivers essential infrastructure services across a range of long-term contracts and frameworks and is looking to strengthen its senior estimating capability.
Your new role
As Managing Estimator, you will take a lead role in the pricing and commercial development of strategic highways and street-lighting term maintenance tenders.
You will be responsible for developing robust, competitive and commercially viable estimates, while establishing tender pricing strategies that consider risk, opportunity and market intelligence.
Key responsibilities will include:
Leading the development and pricing of major highways and term maintenance tenders
Producing detailed estimates from first principles
Preparing and reviewing cost models covering labour, plant, materials, subcontractors, preliminaries and overheads
Developing tender pricing strategies and identifying commercial risks and opportunities
Leading and coordinating estimating, operational, commercial, procurement and bid inputs
Managing supply chain enquiries, quotation reviews and adjudications
Presenting pricing recommendations at tender governance and sign-off reviews
Supporting client clarification meetings and commercial negotiations
Undertaking estimate assurance and peer reviews
Coaching and mentoring other estimating professionals
Driving continuous improvement and best practice across the estimating function
What you'll need to succeed
To be successful, you will ideally come from a strong highways background with previous experience working on term maintenance and/or framework contracts. This is a senior appointment, so you will need extensive estimating experience and the ability to lead significant tender submissions.
You will ideally have:
Extensive estimating experience within highways, civil engineering, infrastructure or term maintenance
Strong highways experience, ideally across term maintenance and/or framework contracts
A proven track record of developing competitive and commercially robust tenders
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