Senior Estimator

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Job description

Senior Estimator

37 Hours per week

£46,110 - £51,031 DOE

Norse Group provides a range of commercial, property and care services across the UK, and we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Estimator to join our Group's Bid Team, based at our Head Office in Norwich, Unity Place.

The Role:

Reporting to the Bid Director, you will be the commercial lead within the bid team. You will create, develop, and maintain costing models used across the Norse Group, and support the bidding process for contracts predominantly within the Soft and Hard Facilities Management sectors. You will be supported by an estimator within the bid team, who you'll line manage, along with operational colleagues to develop competitive, commercially viable pricing proposals for the Group's tenders, ensuring that they meet the organisation's commercial principles and governance requirements. Norse Group utilises Salesforce as its CRM, and you'll also administer the platform within business development, ensuring data accuracy and reporting integrity.

Our Successful Candidate:

You will bring commercial experience, preferably within a sales and/or bidding environment, demonstrating;

• Excellent technical knowledge of MS Excel to enable costing model development
• Proven experience in a commercial role, preferably within business development
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, capable of tailoring your presentation of information to your audience
• Solution driven, capable of contributing to bid development through sound commercial understanding, analysis and advice
• Capable of working autonomously where required, as well as being able to collaborate in a team environment
• Experience of using Salesforce or a similar CRM platform is desirable
• Travel to other Norse Group Offices may be required, so a full UK driving licence is essential to meet the criteria of the role

Our offer;

• £46,110 - £51,031 DOE
• 25 Days annual leave + bank holidays
• 4+4 Sickness scheme and Stat Nest Pension
• Access to company discounts and offers

We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. If you have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful and will not be progressed to the next stage.