Strategic Program Analyst — Defense Tech & Pricing

UForce; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

UFORCE US is seeking a Senior Program Analyst to solve cross-functional problems that cost deals, margin, and time. You’ll bring analytical rigor to pricing, agreements, program performance, and the processes connecting Sales, Capture, Finance, Engineering, and Delivery.

This is an ownership role reporting into US Sales leadership. You won’t manage a team; your influence comes from evidence, credibility, and sound judgment.

Qualifications

• Operational ownership: experience running or improving an operating function or end-to-end process with accountability.
• Product management experience: owning a product/platform/service, gathering requirements, prioritizing constraints, partnering with Engineering.
• Business finance fluency: interrogate a P&L with cost build-ups, margins, revenue recognition, and cash timing.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills: structure ambiguous questions, validate data, test assumptions, and defend recommendations.
• Commercial judgment: read contracts/SOWs to understand delivery, cost exposure, and risk; know when to seek legal/technical advice.
• Systems and process design: build clear models, policies, and workflows; CRM/reporting fluency.
• Cross-functional influence: senior-level judgment with stakeholders across Sales, Capture, Finance, Engineering, Delivery, and Legal.
• Clear communication and ownership: strong written communication, attention to detail, initiative to resolve problems.
• Sound prioritization under pressure: balance accuracy with speed; surface findings early; explicit trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Solve high-impact business problems by identifying recurring friction and implementing durable improvements.
• Make commercial commitments clear by reviewing contracts and SOWs for scope, deliverables, schedules, costs; ensure visibility into obligations.
• Keep scope changes disciplined; quantify impact and support clear change-control processes.
• Build pricing and cost models with Engineering, supply chain, and Finance; include cost build-ups for products, integration, training, spares, and sustainment.
• Connect program performance to the original bid by tracking cost, schedule, and margin against assumptions; explain variances.
• Give leadership one reliable view of the business by producing reporting that reconciles pipeline, bookings, backlog, revenue timing and costs.
• Support major bids and pursuits with pricing analysis, cost narratives, data gathering, and bid coordination.
• Build practical commercial processes with usable policies, templates, and approval paths for pricing, discounting, risk, and handoffs to Delivery.
• Connect customer needs with Engineering by routing field requirements and configuration requests; assess non-standard commitments.
• Improve systems and close feedback loops by keeping CRM data accurate; automate recurring work and turn reviews into improvements.

Skills

Operational ownership

Product management

Business finance fluency

Analytical & modeling

Commercial judgment

Systems & process design

Cross-functional influence

Clear communication

Prioritization under pressure

Job description

UFORCE US is seeking a Senior Program Analyst to solve cross-functional problems that cost deals, margin, and time. You’ll bring analytical rigor to pricing, agreements, program performance, and the processes connecting Sales, Capture, Finance, Engineering, and Delivery.

This is an ownership role reporting into US Sales leadership. You won’t manage a team; your influence comes from evidence, credibility, and sound judgment.