Continuous Improvement Analyst

Rubicon Consulting; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Rubicon Consulting seeks a data-driven role to support the Head of Pre-Construction & Tendering (UK) by improving consistency, quality and commercial accuracy of UK tenders. The role maintains a resource forecast that translates the live tender pipeline into forecast headcount demand and provides an evidence-based view on cost build-ups and commercial treatments.

The candidate will identify inconsistencies, errors and risk, without owning tender prices or bid decisions, and will work to enhance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or comparable career experience required.
• Excellent written communication and ability to document processes clearly.
• Understanding of commercial terms, cost build-ups, margin, escalation and contingency.

Responsibilities

• Review as-built cable schedules and compare quantities against live projects to mitigate design risk.
• Review tenders for commercial accuracy in cost build-up logic, escalation and indexation.
• Analyse live tenders to ensure pricing consistency across the portfolio by project type, complexity and location.
• Review tender process documentation, templates, checklists and gate deliverables.
• Set up Excel structures to forecast project archetypes and headcount demand.
• Apply probability weighting to pipeline for realistic forecast trends.
• Compare forecast demand against current establishment and committed resources.
• Produce scenario views to support recruitment and subcontracting decisions.
• Refresh, publish and explain the forecast on a monthly cycle.

Skills

Critical thinking

Challenge upward

Multi-tasking

Self-driven

Plain language communication

Microsoft Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree or comparable career experience

Tools

Excel

Job description

Role Summary

To support the Head of Pre-Construction & Tendering (UK) in raising the consistency, quality and commercial accuracy of the UK tender process, and to establish and maintain a resource capacity forecast that converts the live tender pipeline into forecast headcount demand.

The applicant will provide an evidence-based view of how tenders are produced, and how assumptions, cost build-ups, and commercial treatments are applied consistently across project tenders. This will involve commercial and process analysis, ensuring consistency across the portfolio, and investigating new ways to provide cost transparency.

The role does not own tender prices or bid decisions, but is expected to identify inconsistency, error, and risk.

Responsibilities

• Review as-built cable schedules and compare quantities against live projects in order to mitigate design risk.
• Review live and completed tenders against the governing tender process and gate requirements, checking that required deliverables are complete and internally consistent.
• Review tenders for commercial accuracy in cost build-up logic, escalation and indexation treatment, contingency and risk provision.
• Commercially analyse the live tender portfolio against previously built projects to ensure there is consistency in the pricing across the portfolio by project type, complexity and location.
• Review the tender process documentation, templates, checklists and gate deliverable definitions.
• Set up the excel structure to pull project archetypes into a forecast.
• Apply probability weighting to the pipeline (win probability, stage, customer framework position) so the forecast can also reflect likely to deliver as opposed to maximum theoretical demand.
• Compare forecast demand against current establishment and committed resource to identify required headcount growth.
• Produce scenario views - win / lose / delay on major opportunities, and best-case and worst-case pipeline conversion - to support recruitment, contractor and subcontracting decisions.
• Refresh, publish and explain the forecast on an agreed monthly cycle.

Requirements

• Critical thinking
• Willing to challenge upward
• Multi-tasking
• Self-driven
• Translates analysis into plain language and a recommended action.
• Bachelor's degree or comparable career experience.
• Understanding of commercial terms and processes, able to review cost build-ups, margin, contingency, and escalation.
• Excellent written communication, able to produce clear process documentation.
• Ability to handle confidential commercial information appropriately.
• Skilled in Microsoft Excel

Our Company

Rubicon Consulting is a Talent management consultancy which helps you to optimise business performance and competitive advantage by choosing the right people first time