Location
Banbury, Oxfordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Description
Commercial Estimator – Job Summary:
We’re supporting our client, a leading global automotive components manufacturer based in Banbury, who are looking for a Commercial Estimator to join their growing team. The successful Commercial Estimator will have experience of analysis of RFQ’s and managing the quoting and costing activities.
Salary: £Excellent
Benefits: To be discussed at interview
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Banbury
Job Start date: ASAP
Responsibilities for Commercial Estimator:
- Support and managing the quoting and costing activities for new and existing business opportunities.
- To be able to assess manufacturing processes and understand and be able to define the cost drivers.
- Analysis of all customer RFQ’s to ensure all required information is available to put together a quotation pack for a new enquiry or a change to existing.
- To assist in driving the production of appropriate data to ensure that all enquiries are managed efficiently and within agreed timescales.
- Support and prepare commercial claims in conjunction with the customer account managers.
- Liaise closely with all Operational Departments and Purchasing to obtain the correct input data required for all new business opportunities and customer claims
- Ability to interpret product concept sheets and complex BOM’s.
- To be able to complete the companies costing model to develop business cases to be presented and approved through the quote approval process.
- Support in the preparation of the annual Business plan activities.
- To provide and support all reporting activities required for the commercial department.
- Support in VE/VA activities.
- Conduct and lead meetings with various cross-functional team members to support the quoting process and existing programs.
About You:
- Experience working within manufacturing in a commercial, cost analyst role, ideally in the automotive sector.
- Must have a good understanding of absorption and activity-based costing.
- Good Interpersonal and communication skills.
- Team player.
- Ideally have a financial/business qualification.
- Good understand of manufacturing processes.
- Strong analyst with experience in Excel key.
- Able to prepare presentations in PowerPoint.
- Good analytical skills.
- Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Candidates must be able to work using their own initiative and be able to liaise with other functions and departments at all levels within the company.
- Literacy and numeracy.
Job Application:
If you would like to be considered for this role, please apply with your full CV – or call us now. Whilst this position may not be of interest to you or suit your skills and experience, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with a member of the team at Willcox Matthews to understand how we can support you.
Willcox Matthews Recruitment Ltd acts an employment business for permanent and contract roles. By completing the application process, you agree to the terms outlined in our Privacy Notice and that Willcox Matthews Ltd may contact you in connection with your application in relation to Willcox Matthews providing you with work-finding services. Our Privacy Notice can be viewed under the privacy tab on our website.
We take your application seriously and we make every effort to respond to all applicants.
Candidates must be eligible to work and live in the UK
Job tags
Salary
