Manager of Retail Estimating & Value Engineering
$110,000–$120,000 year
On-siteMarlton, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Lead estimating for qualified Temporary and Semi-Permanent Retail Display opportunities across the TRG network, owning cost validation, PCF development, and recommended pricing while challenging assumptions to protect margin and ensure market competitiveness. Establish and enforce estimating intake standards after Sales qualification, returning incomplete or poorly defined requests for correction, and develop consistent costing, documentation, and review standards for plant partners. Build trusted relationships with cross-plant estimating and operations teams to harmonize cost assumptions and turnaround expectations, then recruit, onboard, and develop an estimator to handle routine budgeting and ballpark work. Lead cost-reduction reviews with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to improve manufacturability and scalability, while creating estimating tools, cost libraries, and benchmarks to reduce individual dependency. Establish scorecards for turnaround time, accuracy, and win rate, then surface material, margin, or schedule risks early with defined recovery timelines.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business, Finance, or a related field
- 7-10+ years of direct estimating and/or value-engineering experience in Temporary and Semi-Permanent Retail Displays
- Direct Retail Display experience
- Demonstrated experience building cost models and pricing strategies in a manufacturing, converting, display, or mixed-material production environment
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across multiple plants, functions, and P&L owners
- Experience recruiting, onboarding, coaching, and developing estimators or related technical-commercial talent
- Track record of improving estimate speed, accuracy, competitiveness, margin, and process discipline
- Experience creating PCFs, estimate templates, cost libraries, pricing benchmarks, quote-review standards, and estimate-to-actual reporting
- Advanced cost modeling for corrugated, paperboard, print, tooling, labor, assembly, packout, freight, fulfillment, and outside components
- Strong understanding of Temporary and Semi-Permanent Display construction, manufacturing methods, materials, and cost drivers
- Ability to interpret BOMs, structural or CAD drawings, production specifications, retailer requirements, and supplier quotations
- Strong value-engineering capability focused on customer value, manufacturability, scalability, market conditions, and complete cost
- Advanced Excel and financial-analysis skills
- Working knowledge of domestic and offshore supplier pricing, 3PL/fulfillment models, and cross-plant sourcing economics
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business, Finance, or a related field preferred
- Mixed-material or Permanent Display estimating experience
- Experience with Amtech or a comparable ERP/estimating platform
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