Strategic Pricing, Senior

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MITRE is seeking a Senior Strategic Pricer to support the Strategic Pricing team, MITRE's Pricing Center of Excellence. The role partners with internal teams on strategic opportunities across the full pricing lifecycle, including capture, bid strategy, and pricing proposal development.

The Senior Strategic Pricer will also support pricing tools, methodologies, training, and process improvements across Finance, Contracts, and the broader enterprise. This position reports to the Senior Manager, Strategic Pricing and is based in McLean, Virginia; or Bedford, Massachusetts, with a hybrid work schedule.

• Price proposals for contracts and grants (federal, state/local and commercial), from proposal kickoff, through pricing inputs, to final review and submission.
• Provide strategic bid and fee guidance to our internal customers and senior leadership.
• Assist in gate reviews, black hats, Bid/no-Bid decisions, and Price-to-Win assessments for larger opportunities.
• Create pricing models and business cases considering such things as ROI, NPV, and pricing construct (e.g. licenses, FFP, cost plus).
• Assist with win-loss analyses and help create internal benchmarks, metrics, and pricing analytics.
• Monitor trends and best practices in pricing and proposal preparation. Recommend pricing improvements.
• Respond to ad hoc requests from senior executives including CFO.
• Develop, implement, and update pricing methodologies (T&M, FFP, International) used by pricers across MITRE Finance.
• Assist with pricing-related trainings in Finance, Contracts, and other MITRE staff.

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Ability to independently create pricing proposals, preferably in ProPricer.
• Experience with federal pricing and with submitting proposals for both Federal grants and contracts.
• Familiarity with cost recovery and cost structures, including terms such as wrap rates, fringe, overhead and G&A.
• Possesses understanding of common basis for Federal pricing evaluations: LPTA, Best Value, Best Value Trade Off, etc.
• Demonstrated success with independent researching and creating financial models.
• Familiarity with capture support and price-to-win.
• Awareness of CAS & FAR regulations.
• Effectively communicate insights and results to an executive audience.
• Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

• Active Top Secret Security Clearance.
• Knowledge of resources (e.g., GovWin, FPDS, and salary survey databases) used identify opportunities and research current contracts/incumbents to assist in qualifying bid opportunities preferred.
• Basic knowledge of FFRDC's and UARC's preferred.

Secret


Top Secret


$96,000 - $120,000 - $144,000 Annual


Hybrid

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