IWS Group is a growing family of market-leading product brands, manufacturers, and service companies, providing essential services and supplies to the logistics, material handling and other industrial sectors across Europe and beyond. We are a group of industry-leading companies, cutting-edge in their own fields of expertise, while working collaboratively to provide outstanding services and solutions in the industrial workplace.

Brandsafe based in Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), is Europe’s leading innovator of impact protection and high visual safety solutions for the industrial workplace. We are a team of technical experts who have pioneered a system of superior performance, good-looking and affordable safety products for the industrial workspace - challenging the traditional, expensive, and cumbersome solutions. The Brandsafe acumen and expertise are focused around high traffic and heavy-duty areas inside, outside and around the building.

IWS Group is looking to recruit an experienced Estimator - to spear head and develop a best-in-class tender & estimating function at its fast-growing subsidiary, Brandsafe. This role operates within a growing group of companies with a strong people culture and offers challenging and rewarding career opportunities for the right candidate to work in an entrepreneurial environment with short lines of communication and decision-making.

The Estimator will be responsible for creating and presenting commercially viable tender submissions at Brandsafe, including, but not limited to:

• Produce professional, high-quality specifications, quotations, and technical submissions.
• Take ownership of entire tender and PQQ process, from initial enquiry to final submission
• Work with and interpret technical drawings and specifications.

The Estimator will work closely with:

• Operations, Commercial, Sales and Project Delivery
• Managing Director
• QS/Estimators at Main Contractors, Architects, Design Managers and End Users

Day to day activity will include:

• Providing accurate and analytical estimates for tender evaluation in line with business expected GM%
• Coordinating pre-tender commercial reviews with key stakeholders to identify nuances, conditions and inclusions to submissions
• Working collaboratively with Business Development team to increase tender enquiries
• Working collaboratively with customer design team to promote core product range
• Collaborating with Architects to manage & coach product selection and placement
• Tracking and reporting on enquiry, quote and tender levels and conversions
• Development of the tender/estimating processes, systems and capabilities
• Long term development may include building out the estimating function and team

Skills & Experience

• Good standard of general education and evidence of ongoing development
• Significant estimating experience
• Track record of successfully delivering tenders within the construction industry
• Experience working with architects and main contractors
• Proficient at pricing, analysing margins and producing accurate, commercially viable quotations
• Demonstrable understanding of common forms of contracts
• Experience of working within 3D models and the measurement and pricing of data
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in Excel
• Proficient in AutoCAD, Bluebeam or equivalent

Aptitudes & Attributes

• Capable of working to challenging deadlines and managing multiple tasks efficiently
• Initiative-taking, hands-on, can-do attitude
• Able to work independently and autonomously when required
• Accountable and takes responsibility for standards of work
• Always looking for ways to improve
• Agile and flexible, ready to respond to change
• Collaborative team player
• Always thinking of the customers experience
• Able to influence positive change in processes
• A Degree, HND or NVQ equivalent in an Engineering discipline or Quantity Surveying would be highly desirable

Candidates must be able to demonstrate the Right to Work in the UK.

Success Measures

• Meeting / exceeding tender deadlines
• Accuracy of predicted GM%
• Quality of tender submissions
• Conversion of submissions to order
• Demonstrable client engagement and relationship building to increase enquiry levels

Benefits include:

• 23 days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays) - increasing with length of service
• Pension
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Life Assurance
• PERKS discount platform
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free parking