Cost Strategy Senior Principal

Job ID 2502624-0010

Location HUNTSVILLE, AL, US

Date Posted 2025-03-27

Category Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory Solutions Archt

Schedule Full-time

Shift Day Job

Travel No

Minimum Clearance Required None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain None

Potential for Remote Work Yes

Description

SAIC is seeking an experienced and motivated Cost Strategy Senior Principal to join the Corporate Pricing Team. Candidates must demonstrate strong analytical, collaborative, critical thinking, and problem-solving experience. Candidates must also work well under pressure.

This position is 100% remote nationwide.

Job Responsibilities

• Analyze competitive landscapes to inform strategic decisions
• Read RFP and formulate questions to Gov if draft RFP/RFP has conflicting data
• Prepare financial charts highlighting financial business model; risks, key assumptions; business metrics
• Develop comprehensive strategic approach to pricing bid case and execution case to meet corporate benchmarks
• Identify potential risks and devising mitigation strategies
• Facilitate communication across departments to ensure strategy alignment
• Prepare financial charts highlighting financial business model; risks, key assumptions; business metrics
• Analyze PWS and identify appropriate job families and skill levels
• Map RFP labor categories to the SAIC job families based on job description, education, and qualifications
• Coordinate with procurement and pricing to generate subcontractor labor templates
• Derive targets for subcontractors and analyze results
• Coordinate with Solution Architects to obtain estimates
  
  

Qualifications

Requirements

• Bachelors and fifteen (15) years or more of related experience; Masters and thirteen (13) years or more experience; PhD or JD and ten (10) years or more experience
• Minimum ten (10) years’ experience in Basis of Estimate (BOE) development
• Candidate should be familiar with multiple program types (CPAF, CPFF, LOE, FPLOE, FFP, T&M, IDIQs, etc.) with varying degree of complexities.
• Demonstrate the ability to process and analyze large volumes of data in Excel and consolidate into management level reports.
• Knowledge of general and corporate business practices, government contracting regulations and principles, and accounting and finance principles
• Expert-level experience in Excel, MS Office, and highly proficient in IF formulas, VLOOKUP formulas and pivot tables
• Highly proficient in revenue recognition methods and profitability analysis
• Proven ability to analyze job market trends and incorporate data into BOE development
• Experience with Request for Proposals (RFPs), and formulating cost strategies to increase Price-To-Win (PTW)
• Can make decisions using sound judgment while complying with policies, procedures, accounting principles.
• Ability to prioritize and work with minimal supervision (self-starter), be persistent in follow-through, and perform effectively within deadlines.
• Ability to balance long-term thinking with short-term execution.
• Must be able to multi-task and support program with efficiency and accuracy.
  
  

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.