Bid Cost Manager Montà

Bid Cost Manager
Montà
Piemonte, Montà

Req ID:414365

Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation.

Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions.

Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70, 000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide

**PURPOSE OF THE JOB

- To prepare, lead and manage all costing and pricing aspects of a tender within the tender team, with the support of Finance Tender Manager on all financial aspects (from Business Opportunity Review up to Tender Transfer Meeting)

- To support Bid manager or Bid sub-system managers on target cost, cost consolidation and cost challenge per sub-system

- To support the Project team on costing aspects until CPR1 (Critical Project Review n°1)

- Only for RSC Project with high level of development or gaps: to support Project team on costing aspects

**MAIN RESPONSABILITIES

Key accountabilities:

- Prepare quick costing during pre-tendering phase, based on product cost database and return of experience from project execution

- Support the Bid manager in the preparation of the IFQ (Instruction For Quotation), in accordance with pricing strategy

- Define the cost structure for the bid according to RFP (terms and conditions, etc), sales requirements, etc

- Define target cost per activities and/or sub system in coordination with Bid sub-system managers, matching with winning price and identified gaps versus Reference Solution

- Lead cost estimation activities based on target cost approach with all participating units and métiers

- Lead cost improvement actions to reach tender cost /target price using all competitiveness levers, and challenge the contributors

- Lead a collaborative work with Finance Tender Manager to optimize Financial costs (bonds, financing, hedging, insurance, taxes, etc), and to improve overall competitiveness of the bid

- Consolidate tender costs commitment and selling price as per financial rules and in the consolidation tool (Mercury/2. 1/ or Ody. C)

- Control the level of robustness of the costing (consistency between scope of work, costing received and planning), and use the Costing robustness assessment grid

- Support proactively the Bid manager and the Finance Tender Manager during the tender validation process

- Prepare the Costing package for TRM (Tender Review Meeting) (cost analysis/bridges, standard report, cash curve, etc), and support the tender leader on the preparation of the pricing sheet for the customer

- Lead cost estimation activities, in coordination with Bid sub-system manager, for changes discussed with the customer during negotiation phase and update the cost commitment

- Transfer tender costing data (with related assumptions) to Project (TTM / Tender Transfer Meeting) + variance analysis (from TRM/ Tender Review Meeting ->TTM/ Tender Transfer Meeting)

- Support on demand the Project team on costing for variation orders

- Only for RSC Projects with high level of development or gaps, and in coordination with Design to Cost team (Train cost leaders and Product cost managers) and Sub-system managers:

- Define and monitor detailed cost target for Product /process items to be developed, in line with Project/Product cost baseline

- Participate on costing activities during design phase on solution definition, and give the Go/No Go from Product cost perspective

- Check if proposed solutions are in line or not with Project cost baseline, and escalate if needed

- Coordinate value analysis during design phase, with the support of Product cost manager and DtC manager; if the activities are subcontracted, coordinate them

- Build comparisons on different solutions and support Make or Buy evaluations (in coordination with the Finance Project Manager)

- Animate and collect at train level all cost reduction initiatives (ideas collection and preliminary studies)

- Consolidate variable cost at train level and track appropriate KPIs in PCP (Product Cost Platform) tool

Performance measurements:

- Provide all costing and pricing deliverables on time

- Accuracy and consistency of cost commitment for tender submittal and for tender negotiation

- Reliability of cost commitment between TTM and CPR0, out of change of scope/planning/global environment

- Only for RSC Project with high level of development or gaps: keep under control Product variable cost (accuracy of landing)

**Educational Requirements

- Engineering degree and/or Business School

**Experience

- Knowledgeable of Costing, in similar industry

**Competencies & Skills

Technical:

- Ability to recognize product and associated costs, and understand operational flows (engineering, manufacturing, industrial, etc)

- Ability to analyze and challenge contributor's commitments

- Ability to define cost