Commercial Bid Modelling Lead
Essex – Hybrid (occasional travel to office)
£58,000 – £65,000 + Benefits
Are you a commercially minded finance professional with a talent for building robust financial models that influence strategic decision-making?
As Commercial Bid Modelling Lead you will become the organisation's internal expert for bid pricing and financial modelling. This is a highly visible role supporting major bids, rebids, contract extensions and commercial opportunities across the business. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll provide the financial insight that drives pricing strategy, risk management and commercial success.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Associate Director of Finance, you'll lead the financial modelling workstream across a diverse portfolio of opportunities. You'll be responsible for developing agile, commercially focused models that support decision-making while balancing accuracy, risk, pace and practicality.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead financial modelling activities for bids, rebids, contract extensions and commercial opportunities.
• Build and maintain pricing models covering profit and loss, cash flow, mobilisation costs, staffing, overhead recovery, inflation, working capital and risk analysis.
• Develop scenario modelling, sensitivity analysis, affordability assessments and price-to-win models.
• Translate complex contract specifications and operational requirements into meaningful financial assumptions.
• Provide commercial challenge on pricing, margins, delivery models and risk assumptions.
• Present financial outputs and recommendations to senior leadership, bid boards and governance forums.
• Ensure models are well structured, transparent and easy to review, maintaining appropriate controls and documentation.
• Create and improve standard modelling templates, pricing tools and quality assurance processes.
• Support handover from bid stage through to mobilisation and operational delivery.

About You
You'll combine strong technical modelling skills with commercial awareness and the confidence to challenge stakeholders constructively.

• Qualified, part-qualified or qualified by experience in Finance, Commercial Finance, Bid Pricing or Financial Modelling.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling expertise.
• Proven experience supporting bids, tenders, contract pricing or complex commercial opportunities.
• Strong understanding of P&L, cash flow, cost drivers, margin analysis, overhead recovery and commercial risk.

• Experience working with public-sector contracts, outsourced services or government-funded programmes.
• Experience within employability, education, justice, health, social care or wider public service sectors.
• Exposure to Power Query, Power BI or similar analytical tools.

Commercial Bid Modelling Lead
Essex – Hybrid (occasional travel to office)
£58,000 – £65,000 + Benefits
Are you a commercially minded finance professional with a talent for building robust financial models that influence strategic decision-making?
As Commercial Bid Modelling Lead you will become the organisation's internal expert for bid pricing and financial modelling. This is a highly visible role supporting major bids, rebids, contract extensions and commercial opportunities across the business. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll provide the financial insight that drives pricing strategy, risk management and commercial success.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Associate Director of Finance, you'll lead the financial modelling workstream across a diverse portfolio of opportunities. You'll be responsible for developing agile, commercially focused models that support decision-making while balancing accuracy, risk, pace and practicality.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead financial modelling activities for bids, rebids, contract extensions and commercial opportunities.
• Build and maintain pricing models covering profit and loss, cash flow, mobilisation costs, staffing, overhead recovery, inflation, working capital and risk analysis.
• Develop scenario modelling, sensitivity analysis, affordability assessments and price-to-win models.
• Translate complex contract specifications and operational requirements into meaningful financial assumptions.
• Provide commercial challenge on pricing, margins, delivery models and risk assumptions.
• Present financial outputs and recommendations to senior leadership, bid boards and governance forums.
• Ensure models are well structured, transparent and easy to review, maintaining appropriate controls and documentation.
• Create and improve standard modelling templates, pricing tools and quality assurance processes.
• Support handover from bid stage through to mobilisation and operational delivery.

About You
You'll combine strong technical modelling skills with commercial awareness and the confidence to challenge stakeholders constructively.

• Qualified, part-qualified or qualified by experience in Finance, Commercial Finance, Bid Pricing or Financial Modelling.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling expertise.
• Proven experience supporting bids, tenders, contract pricing or complex commercial opportunities.
• Strong understanding of P&L, cash flow, cost drivers, margin analysis, overhead recovery and commercial risk.

• Experience working with public-sector contracts, outsourced services or government-funded programmes.
• Experience within employability, education, justice, health, social care or wider public service sectors.
• Exposure to Power Query, Power BI or similar analytical tools.