Cost Analyst

Cost Analyst

Our well established, successful, and constantly developing client are currently looking for a Cost Analyst to join their friendly team in Stroud, Gloucestershire on a full-time, permanent basis.

Hours: 37.5h pw: Monday – Friday 8am – 4pm (early finish Fridays at 1pm!) – fully based onsite.

Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum + benefits including;

- Free parking

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

- Company bonus schemes

- Dental, optical etc scheme

- Pension: 5% employee and 7% employer

- Further progression/development opportunities

- Early Friday finish

+ more

This is a great opportunity to join a successful, dynamic engineering company that has a low turnover of staff, lots of recent investment and who can offer excellent career progression if desired.  Within this business, you will be offered ongoing support in your role, and will be part of a friendly team with further learning opportunities.

Reporting to the Tender Manager, the Cost Analyst will support the commercial success of the business through accurate costing, pricing analysis and commercial evaluation. Working across the company's product portfolio, you will develop cost models, provide pricing and margin analysis, and support tendering activities to ensure commercially sound decision-making.

This role is internally focused and would suit someone with previous experience in commercial, pricing, tendering or sales support environments who can bring strong analytical skills and commercial awareness.

Duties

- Develop and maintain cost models and pricing structures for tenders and sales opportunities.

- Support costing, pricing and margin analysis across bids and proposals.

- Review cost assumptions, pricing calculations and commercial inputs to ensure accuracy and consistency.

- Obtain and assess supplier quotations, identifying commercial risks and opportunities.

- Provide procurement recommendations to support tender submissions and project awards.

- Work closely with Supply Chain, Planning, Engineering and Finance teams to ensure accurate cost inputs.

- Ensure pricing aligns with internal guidelines, margin expectations and approval processes.

- Analyse historical pricing and cost data to support commercial decision-making and continuous improvement.

- Contribute to pricing strategies, discount structures and commercial evaluations.

- Support the handover of commercial information to Contracts, Supply Chain and Finance teams following project award.

- Maintain accurate records of costing data, supplier inputs, assumptions and approvals.

- Manage and update CRM and sales system data to support pricing analysis and reporting.

- Coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure costing assumptions reflect operational and technical requirements.

- Support the development of costing tools, templates and commercial processes.

- Ensure compliance with company policies, commercial governance and ethical standards.

Key Attributes

- Demonstrable involvement in costing and pricing activities.

- Strong understanding of cost structures, pricing models, and margin analysis.

- Strong analytical and numerical skills with high attention to detail.