Quote Strategist – Creative Studio

Build Hollywood Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + birthday day

Life Insurance

Flexible working

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Job summary

BUILDHOLLYWOOD is a leading UK street advertising specialist seeking a Quote Manager to develop and manage a robust quoting system. You will work with project leads and production teams to establish costs, timings and resource needs, building client-facing decks with clear lead times and designs.

You will collaborate with the sales team to understand client requirements, produce accurate quotes for Creative Studio projects, and ensure consistency, accuracy and margin alignment across all quotes.

Qualifications

• Excellent organisational and time-management skills.
• Knowledge and experience within a similar industry.
• Ability to accurately ballpark and estimate job costs.
• Throrough understanding of budgets and end to end quoting process.
• Understanding of production, manufacturing, or build processes to support accurate quoting and planning.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with suppliers and production partners to obtain accurate costs, lead times and availability for materials, services and specialist production requirements.
• Build accurate, commercially viable quotes for Creative Studio projects, working with the team to understand scope, methodology, resources and requirements.
• Identify the resources, suppliers and production methods required for each project and ensure all associated costs are captured before quotes are issued.
• Develop and maintain a consistent quoting system, templates and processes to improve accuracy, efficiency and turnaround times across all Creative Studio quotes.
• Pull together realistic lead times for all elements of a project and ensure these are clearly reflected within client-facing quotes.
• Create clear, professional client-facing quote decks that bring together costs, lead times, designs and relevant project information.
• Work closely with the Head of Print Operations on flatbed production quotes, ensuring production requirements and costs are accurately reflected.
• Develop a strong understanding of regular production formats and methodologies, enabling the team to confidently provide accurate initial or ‘ballpark’ costs where appropriate.

Skills

Quote cost estimation

Budgeting

Production knowledge

Organisational skills

Industry experience

Ability to work in fast-paced env

Job description

BUILDHOLLYWOOD is a leading UK street advertising specialist seeking a Quote Manager to develop and manage a robust quoting system. You will work with project leads and production teams to establish costs, timings and resource needs, building client-facing decks with clear lead times and designs.

You will collaborate with the sales team to understand client requirements, produce accurate quotes for Creative Studio projects, and ensure consistency, accuracy and margin alignment across all quotes.