We are looking for a Contract Costing Quality Assurance Manager to support our client who specialises in ground and cargo handling to inflight catering and retail as well as other services. You will be supporting the food costings for menu production and the loading charts for delivery notes and billing requirements. This is a hybrid position, working 2/3 days a week in the office based in Hounslow, London. This is a fixed term position for 6 months.
You will support the business in all areas of contract pricing, including maintaining the master price lists. The job will include building relationships with airline representatives responsible for pricing & invoicing, creating detailed pricing responses that will assist the acceptance process and managing customer expectations for pricing delivery time frames.
As the Contract Costing Quality Assurance Manager, your duties will include:
- Liaising with specific airline customers, and will take accountability for their contract pricing
- Creating pricing worksheets to gross profit level and price summary document (MPL) per customer including all support data as required.
- Monitoring, investigating and recording GP movement within the pricing term providing detail to the senior management team as required including recommendations for change as appropriate
- Working with the finance team to ensure accurate billing, reviewing invoices at the start of a cycle/menu change to establish correct data and monitoring on an ad-hoc basis
- You will oversee all output and workload and manage performance in line with departmental KPIs
- Supporting tender processes and working alongside the sales team to prepare
- Setting annual SMART objectives and managing the performance of your team of 4 – 6
- Carrying out other additional duties
As the Contract Costing Quality Assurance Manager, you will have:
- Detailed understanding of food and food production methods
- Advanced Excel and Word skills
- Financial awareness and understanding of pricing policies including food cost and labour values
- High level of analytical and numerical skills, including attention to detail and accuracy, must be methodical, and logical in the approach
- Ability to understand, and manage the individual requirements of multiple customers to develop accurate costings information
- You may have experience working in any of the following: Quality Assurance Specialist, Costing Manager, Financial Planning Manager or any other similar position
As the Contract Costing Quality Assurance Manager, you will receive a salary of circa £ 55,000 per annum, depending on experience.