Estimator

An exciting opportunity to join this market leading Co. that offers superb career prospects!

Estimator £50k Neg Basic + Car + Bens

Responsibility

• Build and maintain Service Line costing capabilities in conjunction with Subject Matter Experts, to include labour, materials, other direct expenses and any other attributable costs
• Develop and own benchmarking capabilities (inc tools and assumptions) from existing and new business opportunities
• Proactively provide options and scenario planning analysis, including regional, geographical, internal hygiene factors and market variances for each Service Line
• Support the understanding of synergies driven by offering multiple services
• Deputise for Commercial Manager when required
• Maintain and develop internal and external client relationships
• Attending meetings, provide reports and liaise with all stakeholders on commercial analysis matters
• Review, analyse and challenge the Service Line development and deployment models as completed by the Subject Matter Experts and review quarterly for reporting purposes

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Degree level education
• Excel skills (including pivot tables associated software packages)
• Good communication skills
• Proven project management skills with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
• Disciplined with a strong orientation towards processes and procedures
• Self-starter and ability to operate at all levels (from site level to senior management)
• Hard FM commercial/operational experience or operational/commercial experience
• Knowledge of direct labour resource within the Hard FM platform in terms of market cost
• Understanding of how efficiency can be achieved/optimised within a Hard FM environment with regard to fixed site resource and mobile resource
• Understand how a Hard FM supply chain consolidates and interfaces with direct delivery for strategic/specialist/local generic service providers
• Know the differences between Hard FM suppliers and Hard FM service providers and how to migrate suppliers to value added service provision

Desirable

• Understanding of contract types within the contracted facilities management industry
• Understanding of marketing requirements
• Ideally come from an Estimating background within Hard FM
• Knowledge and experience of change management (whilst may not necessarily be responsible for delivering the change, will undoubtedly have a role in driving the change and certainly need to quantify the impact of change)