Cost Analyst

The incumbent is responsible for working with the Pricing department to create a cost strategy that will be used to set selling prices by customer type and secure expected margins once pricing is finalized. The incumbent will work with store personnel to look for opportunities to increase accuracy of cost forecasts and costs in the store system.

Directly work with stores to manage material need for committed business

Create costs structures for job quotes

Directly work with regional managers and store managers to accuracy of cost forecasts.

Forecasting cost projections

Design systems to know how and when to cover material needs based on predicting

sales fluctuations to maintain expected margins in volatile commodity markets

Maintenance costs in the store system

Requisition maintenance

Probability and statistics

Create spreadsheets

Word Processing

Comfortable talking to large groups of people

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.