Assistant Estimator

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

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 a bachelor's degree in either Math or Physics as well as being a strong user in Excel.

• 24 day's holiday
• Variable annual bonus based 5-15%
• Pension Plan

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, and provide solutions to complex problems.
• 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.
• Prepare commercial/pricing updates for mid-bid reviews, divisional sign off, Black Hat reviews, and sign off, including caveats and assumptions.
• Support procurement activity, working closely with procurement teams to provide supply chain pricing.
• Contribute business improvement / efficiency ideas and pricing initiatives.
• Ensure retention of current business and acquisition of new business through commercially sound and competitive pricing; actively seek 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.
• 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!