Senior Cost and Pricing Estimator

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Cost & Pricing Officer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness or Sheffield, Hybrid – On site minimum expectation would be, Barrow 3 days/week; Preston 2 days/week; Sheffield/Filton as required for monthly team day in Barrow

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £48,663+ (DOE)

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Job Description:

You will shape the cost and pricing insight that underpins compelling bids, credible proposals, and long‑term programme strategies. Working across functions, you will develop cost models, validate inputs, and produce robust, defensible pricing that strengthens business strategy and supports customer commitments. Your work directly influences competitiveness, value, and future Weapon Systems opportunities.

Core duties:

• Prepare and agree costed commercial proposals, ensuring pricing is robust, credible, and defensible
• Develop cost models and interrogate functional inputs to identify cost drivers, risks, and opportunities
• Produce parametric and “should‑cost” models to inform business strategies and strengthen competitiveness
• Ensure cost and pricing inputs for lifecycle and business approval processes, ensuring accuracy and alignment
• Interpret out‑turn data, prepare costings for contract changes, and support negotiations with clear, evidence‑based insight

Essential Skills:

• Considerable experience in cost estimating, pricing, or cost analysis within engineering or project‑based environments
• Significant capability in cost modelling and financial analysis, identifying cost drivers, risks, and opportunities
• Experience supporting tendering, bid, or proposal activity with accurate, defensible cost submissions
• Advanced Excel proficiency essential, with the ability to work across functions to validate and vildate inputs
• Experience with parametric modelling tools desirable, with training available

The Weapon Systems UK team:

As part of BAE Systems Platforms and Services sector, Weapon Systems (UK) designs, develops, manufactures and supports artillery systems, naval guns, and provides engineering capability to the wider BAE Systems business. Our global reach brings our customers a depth and breadth of expertise that meet critical needs in the air, on land, and at sea. Our mission strives for us to be our customer’s trusted and affordable weapons provider, delivering enhanced effects on target and complete mission solutions. We are looking for innovation, commitment and drive to help define the future of Weapon Systems capabilities.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 4th May 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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