Costing Estimator H/F

CIS Group; Marseille; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

CIS Group is seeking a cost estimator to support the growth of the tender center in Marseille. The role focuses on estimating all costs for each commercial project to ensure profitability and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities include gathering information, analyzing tenders, coordinating with clients and suppliers, and building detailed budgets with margins. Fluency in English is required, with experience in Commercial/Finance and catering-related operations helping drive accurate estimates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Business Administration, Accounting, Marketing or other.
• Fluent English, and another language would be an asset.
• at least 5 years or more -proven experience in Commercial/ Finance

Responsibilities

• Gather all the necessary information to build up the budget.
• Analyse tenders & Scope of works and related documentation for the budget.
• Consult clients, subcontractors and internal contributors to gather elements for budget.
• Engage with procurement teams to validate pricing assumptions and supply chain strategies.
• Prepare cost, materials and labour estimates and build up budgets with margins.
• Identify cost risks, contingencies and pricing sensitivities.
• Present cost models and pricing strategies to management and bid review committees.
• Set up cost monitoring and reporting systems and assess cost effectiveness of projects.
• Provide administrative support to the Business Development Department.
• Maintain costing tools and templates; develop lessons learned and benchmarks.
• Participate in post-bid reviews to improve estimates.

Skills

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor in Business Administration, Accounting, Marketing or other

Job description

As part of a job creation, we are looking for our future cost estimator to support the growth of CIS and complement the teams at the tender center in Marseille.

Objective: Estimate all the necessary costs to build up a budget ensuring the cost efficiency and profitability of each new commercial project

MAIN TASKS

Gather all the necessary information to build up the budget

• Analyse tenders & Scope of works and the other documentation relative to the commercial operation.
• Consult clients, subcontractors and all internal contributors to gather all the necessary elements to build up a proper budget (manning, personnel, material/ goods and other costs).
• Engage with procurement teams (and if required suppliers) to validate pricing assumptions and supply chain strategies.

Build up the budget and establish the cost estimation

• Prepare cost, materials and labour estimates.
• Estimate costs of goods & services.
• Build up the whole budgets with detailed cost estimation integrating the margin to ensure an efficient and profitable commercial operation.
• Prepare a detailed list of related assumptions.
• Prepare cost and expenditure statements, such as planning, organizing, and scheduling work and other necessary documentation at regular intervals for the duration of the project.
• Identify cost risks, exclusions, assumptions, contingencies and pricing sensitivities.
• Conduct what-if analyses and scenario modelling for key cost drivers such as labour, food inflation, logistics, exchange rates and occupancy levels.
• Recommend mitigation measures to improve budget reliability.
• Present cost models, assumptions and pricing strategies to management and bid review committees.

Follow up the project & budget

• Set up financial indicators, cost monitoring and reporting systems, and procedures.
• Assess cost effectiveness of products, projects or services, tracking actual costs relative to bids as the project develops.

Provide an administrative support to the Business Development Department

• Prepare and maintain a directory of suppliers, contractors and subcontractors.
• Analyse business or financial data and maintain it in the systems or databases.
• Conduct special studies to develop and establish standards on Manning, food, other costs and related cost data or to effect cost reduction.
• Provide any needed support as per request of the management.
• Maintain and continuously improve Costing tools andtemplates.
• Develop lessons learned and historical cost benchmarks from awarded and lost contracts.
• Participate in post-award and post-bid reviews to improve future estimates.

Profil

Bachelor in Business Administration, Accounting, Marketing or other

Fluent English, and another language would be an asset

at least 5 years or more -proven experience in Commercial/ Finance

Operational Understanding of catering, housekeeping, laundry, camp management and facility services operations.