Proposal Specialist - Senior

Proposal Specialist Senior

As a member of the Safran Seats business, you play a major role in teamwork that provides over one million seats to major airlines worldwide. Our commitment to superior quality, comfort and innovation ensure that you can take pride in doing meaningful work that supports the needs of passengers and crews alike. No matter your role, you connect and collaborate with your fellow team members to bring state-of-the-art, high value-added solutions to market. Because we are one of the few original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to offer an all-inclusive range of passenger seats for commercial aircraft, you'll do impressive work that supports passengers in a variety of seating options, from economy to first class.

Objective : This position works under general supervision and is responsible for coordinating the full life cycle development of product proposals. Accountable for analyzing proposal requirements and ensuring proposal process compliance and responsiveness. This is a highly networked & visible role requiring the ability to work under tight schedules, interact with, and communicate to a cross-functional set of senior managers, internal managers, engineers, and other functional personnel in order to meet proposal deadlines.

Main Function Responsibilities :

• Develop and publish sales proposals based on information obtained from various functional areas within the organization.
• Prepare cost estimation and propose price recommendation by analyzing historical material and labor data.
• Ensure technical proposals and drawings are available and up-to-date for customer submittal.
• Assist the Proposal Manager in the financial analysis and modeling for the Capdev requests and sales forecasts.
• Calculate annual price escalation, based on published labor indices and material commodity indices and communicate this information to Program Managers for updating customer orders.
• Preparation of termination claims on canceled orders for submittal to customer.
• Serve as the main focal point for research, analysis and reporting of proposal metrics and history.
• Manage product options by tracking variations of product offerings across seat models.
• Maintain estimating files, history, and cross-reference data.

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Safran Seats USA is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets. Safran Seats is one of the world's leading manufacturers of aircraft seats, for both crew and passengers. 1 million Safran Seats-manufactured aircraft seats are currently in service with air fleets around the world.

Locate your future workplace :

2000 Weber Dr TX 76240

Gainesville

Texas United States