Senior Commercial Analyst

Location: Banbury

Salary: £60k - (Plus £3k Sign on)

Senior Commercial Analyst - Job Role:

• Supporting 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.
• Be the team leader for the department, and the Commercial Manger UK’s deputy, for the division
• To provide and support all reporting activities required for the commercial department.
• Support in VE/VA activities
• To support the Commercial Manager UK, acting as his representative in internal and external meetings as required
• Conduct and lead meetings with various cross-functional team members to support the quoting process and existing programs.

Senior Commercial Analyst – Person Requirements:

• 3 to 5 years’ 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 Commercial background with ideally experience of dealing with automotive OEM’s
• 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.
• Good analytical skills.
• MAFACT processes and principals (internal training).
• 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.
• Manual dexterity.
• Literacy and numeracy.