Sales Estimator, Construction

Core Group; Buckingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Core Group is seeking a Sales Estimator in Buckingham, United Kingdom. The role involves handling sales estimates from initial enquiry to tender submission, ensuring cost accuracy, and maximising order potential through client liaison.

Key duties include tender pricing, site surveys where needed, producing estimates and quotations, engaging with suppliers, and supporting business development efforts to grow sales with existing and new clients.

Responsibilities

• Ensure tenders are priced accurately and submitted on time
• Deal with customer enquiries
• Determine full extent of customer requirements and drawings
• Carry out site survey visits if required
• Design pipe routes using manufacturers recommendations
• Carry out materials take-offs from tender drawings
• Produce estimates using bespoke software
• Produce and issue quotation letters
• Assist in completing tender prequalification questionnaires (PQQs)
• Negotiate with suppliers on prices, terms and availability
• Answer technical and product queries
• Support growth of sales with existing clients and new clients
• Conduct follow-up calls on quotations to assess competitiveness and project details
• Negotiate quotation prices with customers and with suppliers & subcontractors
• Provide clients with technical and sales brochures/data and technical submittals
• Arrange business development meetings, site surveys and tender bid meetings for directors
• Input, update and edit enquiry/customer/supplier/price records in bespoke software
• Email: (url removed)

Job description

Job Title: Sales Estimator

Reporting to: Bid Director

Salary: £30k - £40k + package

Job Summary

To carry out Sales Estimator duties and associated functions from initial enquiry through to tender submission. Liaising with clients to ensure all requests are met on time, ensuring high accuracy of costs at all times, and maximising order potential through negotiating and liaising with clients.

Responsible for but not limited to the following items:-

Key Responsibilities

Estimating

• Ensuring all tenders are price accurately and within deadline
• Deal with customer enquiries
• Determine full extent of customer requirements and specification & drawings
• Carry out site survey visits, if required
• Design pipe routes using manufacturers recommendations & guidelines
• Carrying out materials take-offs from tender drawings
• Producing estimates using bespoke computer software package
• Producing and issuing quotation letters
• Assisting in the completion of tender prequalification questionnaires (PQQ's)
• Deal with suppliers with regards to prices, terms & conditions, availability and any issues which may occur
• Answering internal and external technical and product queries
• Assist with growing sales within an existing client base in addition to new clients
• Carry out sales quotation follow up calls to ascertain competitiveness of quotations and to determine as much detail about the project as possible
• Negotiate quotation prices with customers and costs with suppliers & subcontractors
• Providing clients with technical and sales brochures and information & data
• Providing technical submittals for approval
• Arranging business development meeting, site surveys & tender bid meetings for company directors

Input, update and edit enquiry/customer/supplier/price records within bespoke computer software packages

Email: (url removed)