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KOMPAN’s mission is to help our customers create healthier and happier communities, and we have done so since 1970. We are market leaders in delivering state of the art playground and fitness sites and we design, produce and install more than 1,000 playground and fitness areas each month across 100 countries - that’s an installation every 44 minutes.  KOMPAN is a world leader in the industry. 

Due to further growth and internal promotions we are looking for an Estimator to join our pre-sales team in our Milton Keynes office. The primary role of the Pre-sales function is to assist our Regional and Area Sales Managers.

The Role

The primary focus of the role is to be the go to for pricing support to the business, with 2 Sales Support Coordinators as direct reports, tasks include:

• Provide day to day pricing support to ASM’s, Designers, Sales Support Coordinators and Bid Managers.
• Ongoing maintenance of our dynamic pricing model for all KOMPAN core equipment.
• Development and maintenance of our Non-core pricing, liaising with contracts managers, ASM’s and analysing margin dilution to make informed changes.
• Own our pricing guide book, with new pricing codes, technical specification and detail to set the KOMPAN standard, educating the wider business.
• Responsibility for our purchasing relationships with third party suppliers, working to get best value, achieve delivery targets and improve quality standards.
• Value engineering support on BIG quotes and tenders where price is key. The estimator will be key in optimizing pricing to give us a competitive advantage over our pricing matrix on Must Win projects
• Together with their team or coordinators, the estimator will be responsible for quality checks on orders before they are handed over to contracts are correct, optimised and ready for installation.
• Review draft terms and conditions proposed by clients, negotiate agreeable terms of contract and arrange for signature and return.

To be successful in this role a candidate or employee must demonstrate the following.

Technical Skills

• Excellent mathematical understanding & competency with pricing software tools
• Competent & experienced user of ERP/ MRP business systems 
• Competent in reading and understanding technical CAD drawings to create price elements
• Competent & experienced Excel user (formula building, V-Lookup etc)

Experience

• Estimating and pricing of landscape, play or construction works 
• RFQ to sub-contractor network & supply chain 
• Forming successful supplier relationships 
• Price negotiation and cost saving 
• Good understanding of playground & outdoor sports installation methods and surfacing construction details
• Experience of working alongside a bid team is an advantage to ensure the competitive and commercial requirements of the business are understood & met
• Proven capability of multi-tasking and working to multiple fixed deadlines
• Confident user of Microsoft Word, outlook, excel and ideally AutoCAD.

Personal skills

• A team player with strong organisational skills, able to collaborate well with others
• Able to work autonomously, proactively managing personal workload
• A natural multi-tasker, able to track and manage multiple projects concurrently
• Strong written & verbal communication skills
• Is trustworthy and takes responsibility for managing deadlines, planning tasks for self, seeking input from others, checking details and raising anomalies
• Structured and accurate, especially with data input skills, excellent attention to detail vital
• Able to learn quickly ‘on the job’ to comprehend and adjust to new and updated information
• A positive ‘can-do’ problem solving attitude

A professional commitment to excellent customer service

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