Pricing Operations Specialist
$65,000–$75,000 year
On-siteManassas, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Collect accurate cost data from OEMs and vendors to build NCS solutions and maintain Special Pricing Authorizations. Organize records of cost and selling price information, ensuring documentation is ready for review, audit, and competitive references. Act as the primary operational liaison between Strategic Pricing, Proposal, and Purchasing teams to develop accurate cost proposals and issue Purchase Orders. Continuously audit solution costs used in bids and monitor bid/proposal hand-offs to ensure required pricing documentation is complete. Perform margin variance analysis between quoted, awarded, and execution costs to identify financial risks. Manage the daily workflow queue in Quote Request Manager and generate recurring status reports on quote activity and operational bottlenecks. Review purchase requisitions to identify discrepancies in part numbers, quantities, and pricing before forwarding for approval.
Required Qualifications
- Natural affinity for facts, figures, and numbers and inclination to analyze how they are connected and related to the bigger picture
- Detail oriented with ability to discern and understand changes as they occur in successive iterations of the same document, artifact, conversation, diagram, etc
- Ability to maintain self-discipline and sustain focus and concentration on the same matter, subject, project until completion
- Strong work ethic and the ability to multitask across multiple operational timelines on an on-going basis
- Highly developed interpersonal skills to establish cohesive, cross-functional relationships between technical, pricing, and project execution teams
- Excellent presentation, documentation, and verbal communication skills
- Thoroughly skillful with the MS Office Suite, exhibiting advanced mastery of Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, complex lookups, data modeling)
- Strong preference for good understanding and familiarity with computer and networking hardware technologies, systems, and components acquired through work experience and/or exposure to them as a matter of personal hobby
- Bachelors Degree, preferably in sales or something relatable to sales, project management, or procurement
Desired Qualifications
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience in sales operations, pricing coordination, procurement, or project management strongly preferred
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