Manager, Costing & Pricing

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Manager, Costing & Pricing to join our Costing & Pricing Department based in Grand Prairie, TX.

You’ll be responsible for managing, analyzing and developing costs and pricing for commercial and government offers. You’ll successfully manage a comprehensive cost control system to ensure each offer is built timely and accurately and recommend process improvements. You must be capable of reviewing Commercial and Government Request for Proposals (RFP) and decomposing and communicating the RFP pricing requirements. You’ll interact with executives, program managers, sales to ensure compliance of RFP requirements. You’ll also be responsible for leading all gate reviews related to each offer within the finance perimeter.

Meet the Team:

Our Finance and Accounting team members need excellent analytical and communication skills to successfully manage our financial portfolio. Our teams provide key analytics – from month-end closing to performance management analysis for our partners. If you’re analytical, detail oriented and have a passion for numbers, you’ll enjoy working with our cross-functional global team.

Your Working Environment:

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

How We Care for You:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

Your Challenges:

Primary Responsibilities:

Costing & Pricing: 50%

• Oversees cost and pricing for a range of proposals to include both domestic and international opportunities and ranging in size of complexity.
• Ensure costing information provided is timely, accurate and supportable in response to requests
• Drive continuous improvement of costing, processes to ensure consistency, accuracy and reliability.
• Cost out non- standard option requests from sales as needed.
• Maintain and document all vendor pricing in an organized, suitable fashion for easy reference.

Business Cases: 25%

• Create business cases which provide management sufficient cost, margin and price information and analysis for proposed and established prices to support business decisions.
• Leads finance offer evaluation process to retrieve approvals needed for release of offer.

Proposal Development: 25%

• Responsible for all aspects of gathering cost estimates and pricing activities for a major proposal efforts for Commercial, Government or S&S activities
• Participate in, support