Contract Pricing Manager in London

This role will provide a central service from the Procurement Portfolio team into the Procurement delivery teams on cost structures and pricing evaluations ultimately enabling Procurement to demonstrate value for money throughout our decision points across all activities within the procurement lifecycle. Across the Infrastructure portfolio, this will involve using simple benchmarks to drive efficiencies into the cost proposals received from the supply and any subsequent contract change.

Our rewards include competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. We offer performance-based annual bonuses, generous annual leave allowances, market-leading pensions, family-friendly policies, access to private health insurance, and a wide range of wellbeing tools. We’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work, providing varied learning and development opportunities.

Working Location: Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Sustainable Travel to work: Heathrow’s Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.

Equal Opportunities: As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger. Heathrow is an accessible place to work, with five diversity networks that champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

Discover a one-of-a-kind career. Our vision at Heathrow is to be an extraordinary airport, fit for the future. In the Finance team, we know that generating income is critical to driving our business forward, but it’s also vital that we create positive passenger and customer experiences that make every journey better. You’ll help us to get the balance right so we can continue investing in our world-class environment.

There’s something special about working at the world’s most iconic airport. Heathrow’s size, scale, and reputation for innovation translate to exciting opportunities for everyone. Finance here is about more than numbers; it’s about being influential, developing trusted relationships, and showing the world that we’re a responsible investment with a bright future.

Responsibilities include:

• Accountable for providing subject matter expertise on cost structures and benchmarking information across the procurement delivery teams.
• Works with procurement commercial and category managers to produce cost strategies based on trend data.
• Carry out cost/price evaluations on tender returns and post-contract change – identifying and carrying out supplier negotiations to deliver cost savings to Heathrow.
• Utilise external sources and industry knowledge to establish best practice benchmarking processes and data inputs.
• Assurance of value for money assessments across the procurement decision points, governance documentation, the Heathrow gateway lifecycle, and external and regulatory audits.
• Accountable for working with Solutions programme management office to obtain required value from external estimating capability and Heathrow ownership of benchmarking data.
• Accountable for integrating overall cost and pricing data into procurement scenario modelling and whole lifecycle cost analysis.

Established track record in creating cost strategies, cost model structures, and cost analytics. Experience of a range of commercial agreements and legal awareness of contract risks & experience of understanding complex and bespoke contract terms and commercial principles including supplies, services, and framework agreements. Expertise in commercial and contract management in both operational and construction contracts. Established network of external industry bodies and supply chain. Practitioner in benchmarking along with the ability to demonstrate credible understanding of construction projects and their cost implications (desirable).