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About The Role
Job Title: Pricing Analyst

Location: Remote Working

Salary: Competitive

Business Overview

OCS UK & Ireland, part of the OCS Group, is a leading facilities management company providing a range of both standalone and integrated services including cleaning, catering, security, technical services, energy management and compliance, front of house, landscaping, logistics, waste management and pest control services.

The company has a turnover of 1.5bn and operates across the UK and Ireland with 50,000 colleagues delivering innovative award-winning services to the private and public sectors and supporting the local communities in which it operates.

Job Overview

The purpose of the role is to provide accurate and competitive cost estimates for both new and existing business within the soft services and ancillary service environment in support of growth and retention strategy. Primary focus will be on development of contract specific cleaning, security and other facilities management solutions to drive resource build and methodology inclusive of labour, machinery, technology and materials to deliver against specification.

There will be a need to closely align with Business Development, Operations, Bid Support, Finance and Commercial colleagues and Heads of Service to form a seamless virtual team in this regard.

Benefits:

• Informal hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Free fruit in our office
• Employee Referral Scheme (if you refer a successful candidate to one of our vacancies)
• Wide range of retail discounts
• Regular social and charity events are held in our offices
• Get involved in charity events in the local community

Wellbeing:

• Discounted gym membership
• Eye test 25 voucher and up to 100 towards glasses
• Join our Cycle to Work scheme via salary sacrifice
• Access to "CHROMA", our internal colleague-led diversity and inclusion community - join a committee or take part in our D&I initiatives and events
• Access to internal Mental Health First Aiders

Career development and recognition:

• Immediate access to "Opportunity" our internal Learning and Development platform
• Required professional membership fees paid for
• Opportunity to win monthly Superstar Awards
• Long service awards

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide commercially sound and competitively priced solutions in support of bid/rebid activity using, for example, optimal cleaning and security methodology as appropriate to specification requirements and operational delivery.
• Undertake site visits and surveys as appropriate to build site/contract specific solutions and schedules.
• Review, understand and measure building plans to support completion of full cost estimates.
• Use external/internal benchmarking data to support estimating process.
• Develop and maintain internal benchmarking data.
• Provide collateral in support of resource build/solution such as rosters/shift patterns/schedules for bid requirements as appropriate.
• Work collaboratively with other OCS commercial Pricing staff to support the integration of the OCS model into the client model.
• Work collaboratively with Heads of Service to identify innovative/alternative service solutions.
• Work collaboratively with other service stream leads/estimators to identify opportunities for multi-skilling of roles to drive efficiency.
• Develop plans/schedules and cost information to support mobilisation and transition process.
• Support contract improvement process and retention through re-engineering and effective challenge to existing and suggested solutions, both within OCS and supply chain.
• Maintain market and service knowledge and its application to our solutions through networking, industry affiliations and competitor awareness.

Key Experience:

• Demonstrable evidence of successful support to winning bids and contract retention.
• Awareness and understanding of cleaning/security and general FM market across different sectors.
• Awareness and understanding of different cleaning methodologies - single/team/lean/flow and awareness and understanding of different security methodologies (manned/mobile/key holding/systems) and synergy with reception/mailroom services, for example.
• Awareness and understanding of different specifications and their impact on solution build.
• Awareness and understanding of environment factors and their impact on solution build - footfall/density/traffic/use/fabric/condition etc.
• Awareness and understanding of supply chain to cleaning market.
• Awareness and understanding of alternative commercial models and impact on solution build.
• Awareness and understanding of "price to win" approach.
• Experience of delivering to strict deadlines.
• Experience of presenting information in a logical, and concise manner.
• Involvement with the review of commercial elements of bids.

About you:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively at all levels both internally and externally.
• Ability to work under own initiative.
• Experience of delivering to strict deadlines.
• Experience of presenting information in a logical and concise manner.
• Involvement with the review of commercial elements of bids.
• Ability to quickly build both personal and functional credibility with operational managers and colleagues from other disciplines.
• Commercial awareness.
• Numerate and logical.
• Excellent organisation skills.
• Proactive, customer and results focused.
• Ability to plan and prioritise work load in order to ensure full service delivery within area of responsibility.
• Excellent MS Excel skills and general high level of IT literacy across MS Word, MS PowerPoint etc.