Senior Cost & Pricing Officer

PATH is a global organization that works to accelerate health equity by bringing together public institutions, businesses, social enterprises, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges. With expertise in science, health, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties. PATH develops and scales solutions—including vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, and innovative approaches to strengthening health systems worldwide.

PATH is seeking a Senior Cost & Pricing Officer. The Senior Cost & Pricing Officer is a critical member of PATH’s pricing and finance team. Under the direction of the head of pricing, the Senior Cost & Pricing Officer oversees the development of cost proposals to a variety of international donors including the development of detailed budget, budget narrative, cost /price analysis of partner budgets, partner budget negotiations and documentation, and coordination with other proposal team members throughout the organization. The Senior Cost and Pricing officer leads large and complex proposals, and also trains, mentors, assists and supports a variety of other PATH staff on proposal development.

Responsibilities:

Cost Proposal Development for assigned bids

• Lead the cost proposal efforts for PATH’s Proposal Budgeting team working closely with technical teams as well as the proposal development team.
• Develop and revise complex proposal templates and budgets in accordance with donor requirements, while utilizing advanced Excel spreadsheet techniques.
• Develop explanatory budget narratives to accompany budget.
• Lead and manage proposal budget meetings with various international teams and make recommendations to technical teams to assure development of a competitive proposal.
• Lead a cost analysis of the RFA/RFP document for initial proposal team meetings. Develop cost strategy for individual proposals and back of the envelope budgets.
• Create and modify budget spreadsheet templates to be responsive to donor specific requirements. Create and/or revise new budget templates as needed, especially for non-US Government donors.
• Develop pricing and presentation budgets for Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF), Firm Fixed Price (FFP), Time and Materials (T&M), Deliverables Contracts.
• Negotiates with partners and subcontractor organizations to ensure partners’ budgets and cost proposal documentation are compliant with donor and solicitation requirements. Coordinate cost volume inputs from subrecipients/subcontractors as a part of the proposal process and perform activities including: providing budget assumptions and guidance, developing required budget templates, and finalize budgets to conform to donor requirements.

Other Business Development:

• Research and analyze various donor requirements for proposal budgeting and project management. Develop tools, templates and capacity-building on these requirements.
• Conduct market research and cost/data gathering for countries and program work.
• Create and revise cost-related tools, templates, worksheets, guides, and training manuals.
• Provide guidance to partner organizations on proposal budgeting, proposal procedures, cost documentation.
• Liaise with contracts and grants/finance staff supporting existing projects for operational inputs on proposal development.
• Subject expert matter on US Government and other donor regulation policies including, but not limited to, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Agency for International Development Acquisition Regulation (AIDAR), and US Department of State Standardized Regulations.
• Review and provide feedback on assigned proposal and program budgets and prepare final versions for submission to the donor.