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- *Job Description:**
- Airbus Helicopters* is looking for a *Costing & Pricing Sr. Manager * to join our team based in Grand Prairie, TX or Columbus, MS
In this role, you will be responsible for gathering, analyzing and preparing cost Proposals, including the budgets and all accompanying financial and required documentation in support of proposals. Knows and applies applicable government regulations as needed (i.e., FAR). Other dimensions of the role include:
- Evaluate US Government cost/price proposal requirements
- Develop and support proposal pricing and business cases to meet or exceed company gross margin and EBIT targets
- Ability to understand the difference between FAR 12 and FAR 15 clauses
- Ability to effectively communicate with customer to determine request for both proposals and negotiations
- Meet The Team: *
From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.
**Your Working Environment:**
Grand Prairie, a suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.
On the eastern border of Mississippi you’ll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It’s here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.
- *How We Care for You:**
- *Financial Rewards:* Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
- *Work/Life Balance: *Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
- *Health & Welfare: *Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
- *Individual Development: *Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.
- *Your Challenges:* *
Costing/Pricing: 35%
- Oversees cost and pricing for a range of proposals to include both domestic and international opportunities and ranging in size of complexity.
- Ensure costing information provided is timely, accurate and supportable in response to requests
- Coordinates requirements for all costing data by working closely with cross functional team of sales, engineering, purchasing, operations, quality to meet customer deadlines.
- Ensures functional areas understand what substantiation is required to support their estimates for each proposal
- Supports team to provide cost effective solutions to our customer. This will include research, standardization, collaboration with peers/managers/directors, and translating into customer price breakdowns and data requirements.
- Maintains and improves process to effectively compile and communicate cost estimates
- Assists and leads projects in the continued developments of costing tools with effective use of costing information and technical information to generate accurate landed costs.
- Develop, evaluate and implement pricing models based upon the current business situations and market dynamics, and work with management to build next generation pricing tools.
- Work with marketing and sales to investigate market trends to keep pricing models market-conformed and aligned to revenue targets while performing competitive pricing analysis.
- Monitors on-going competitive environment
- Leads internal meetings for the overall review of all costing and pricing components and responsible for the completeness and accuracy. Able to interact efficiently with all levels and responsibilities in the organization by communicating costing and pricing requirements.
Business Cases: 35%
- Create business cases which provide management sufficient cost, margin and price information and analysis for proposed and established prices to support business decisions.
- Leads finance offer evaluation process to retrieve approvals needed for release of offer to customer.
Staff Management and Development: 20%
- Manage, develop, mentor and coach staff to ensure staff exhibit company core values and behaviors, interact professionally with the team/company/external parties, and maintain and/or improve those skills and knowledge necessary to adequately perform their assigned jobs.
- Provides training as needed to colleagues on templates that could be used for gathering costing information for proposals.
- Foster innovative mind-set in order to continually improve processes and ways of working.
Proposal Support: 10%
- Creates basis of estimates (BOE) for proposals, if required, as justification for pricing to customer. Ability to train team and colleagues on the use of BOEs for proposal development.
- Contribute to writing of pricing content in proposals submitted to the customer.
- Meets company internal and customer external requirements necessary for contract negotiations and award
- Translate costing sheet to customer pricing sheet- based requirements of the RFP.
* Your Boarding Pass *:
- BS Accounting or Finance or equivalent in experience and education
- Ten (10) years of related experience in project management, costing, pricing, and/or data analytics with high degree of accuracy.
- Understanding of FAR 12 commercial item contract requirements
- Strong analytical, technical, customer service, product knowledge, supply chain, quality focus.
- Strong excel knowledge and ability to model costing concepts, complex formulas and integrate with other files.
- 5% Domestic and International travel availability
- Must be a US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license)
- Preferred Education/Skills:*
- MBA or MS in Accounting or Finance
- Understanding of FAR 15 government item contract requirements
- Physical Requirements:*
- Onsite or remote: 95% Onsite
- Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings daily.
- Hearing: able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds including safety warnings or alarms daily
- Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications daily.
- Equipment Operation: able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment daily.
- Carrying: able to carry documents, drawings, electronic equipment up to 10lbs daily
- Lifting: able to lift documents, drawings, electronic equipment up to 10lbs daily
- Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment rarely
- Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on computer daily
- Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving rarely
- Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on production floor daily
- Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice rarely
- Walking: able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces daily
- PPE required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visit, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.
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A full job description will be provided to candidates whom progress to interview stage or any candidate upon request.
As a matter of policy, Airbus Helicopters, Inc. does not sponsor visas for US positions unless specified. Only applicants with current work authorization will be considered.
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.
****Company:****
Airbus Helicopters, Inc.
*Employment Type:*
US - Direct Hire
*Experience Level:*
Professional
*Remote Type:*
On-site
*Job Family:*
Leadership
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Job Posting End Date: 01.24.2026
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