Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!

In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.

The purpose of this role is to lead the costing and pricing teams within Aftermarket. Deploy centrally defined pricing strategy and
process and ensure price and cost files are maintained to ensure a smooth customer RFP process.

Key responsibilities and duties:

 Manage the day-to-day operations of the costing and pricing functions (including local
supervision of team members) for SGB Aftermarket, with KPI follow up.
 Maintain day-to-day office and administration tasks. Maintain a professional working environment.
 Working closely with the front office to manage and oversee the backoffice quotation process.
 Act as escalation point for operational issues.
 Margin analysis and management of cost down activities to maximise profitability.
 Work with purchasing to set up & manage aftermarket supply contracts, conducting regular business reviews & monitoring key performance measures.
 Ensuring that the customer pricing is maintained per contractual requirements and per pricing strategy.
 Contribute to strategy definition, identifying risk and opportunity at customer and commodity level.
 Implement generic procedures for pricing.
 Sales history analysis to support spare parts catalogue definition per customer
 Duplicate & Obsolescence analysis to ensure data integrity.
 Ensure data integrity of systems records are maintained and audited
 Willingness to participate in improvement activity across the business
 Must embrace change and be willing to adopt new skills to support all areas of the business
 Be flexible in a team oriented environment in achieving the business requirements

Three years experience in a commercial costing and
or pricing role - Essential
Business or finance qualification A level/ NVQ level 4
or equivalent - Essential
Knowledge of airline customer operations - Desirable
Computer literate in Microsoft Office – especially
excel (intermediate skills – VLOOKUP'S etc) - Essential