Jr. Pricing Analyst
Solicitation and Pricing Requirement Analysis
The Junior Pricing Analyst will review solicitation documents such as requests for proposals, requests for quotations, task-order requests, amendments, statements of work, and related documents. They will identify pricing instructions, required formats, deadlines, contract types, periods of performance, labor categories, contract line-item numbers, and evaluation requirements. They will track solicitation amendments and maintain pricing compliance checklists, assumptions, outstanding questions, and action items.
Excel-Based Pricing Model Development
The Junior Pricing Analyst will develop, populate, maintain, and update Excel-based cost and pricing models under the direction of senior pricing personnel. They will calculate labor hours, full-time-equivalent staffing, direct labor rates, escalation, indirect costs, subcontractor costs, travel, other direct costs, fee, discounts, and total proposed price. They will develop scenario analyses to evaluate alternative staffing levels, labor mixes, rates, escalation, indirect costs, fee, and discounts. They will use approved AI capabilities to assist with formula development, formula explanation, model documentation, data classification, and error troubleshooting while independently testing and validating every calculation. They will reconcile internal pricing models with government pricing forms and proposal submission templates. They will identify and correct broken formulas, inconsistent links, accidental overrides, and other workbook errors.
Cost Proposal Preparation and Quality Control
The Junior Pricing Analyst will assist with preparing cost and price proposal volumes, pricing narratives, assumptions, tables, schedules, and supporting documentation. They will draft descriptions of labor-rate development, escalation, indirect rates, fee, subcontractor costs, travel, and other pricing elements using approved language. They will use approved AI tools to support first drafts, document comparisons, consistency checks, and identification of potential omissions, while ensuring that final content is accurate, supportable, and written in MSG's approved voice. They will reconcile totals among pricing models, government forms, proposal tables, cost narratives, and management summaries. They will conduct formula reviews, cross-footing, reasonableness testing, and vertical and horizontal checks. They will verify that costs roll up correctly by employee, labor category, task, contract period, contract line item, and cost element. They will check for omitted or duplicate costs, incorrect periods, inconsistent rounding, broken links, unsupported assumptions, formula overrides, and unreliable AI-generated statements.
Pricing Coordination, Documentation, AI Governance, and Process Improvement
The Junior Pricing Analyst will coordinate with proposal, capture, contracts, finance, accounting, human resources, recruiting, operations, project management, technical personnel, subcontractors, and consultants to obtain pricing inputs. They will participate in proposal kickoff meetings, pricing working sessions, status meetings, and management reviews. They will track pricing assignments, deadlines, data requests, assumptions, issues, and revisions. They will maintain organized pricing files, workpapers, supporting documentation, revision histories, prompt libraries, and records of significant AI-assisted analyses when required. They will communicate outstanding needs, questions, changes, and risks clearly and promptly. They will assist with customer clarifications, revised proposals, best-and-final offers, audits, fact-finding, and negotiation support. They will use only MSG-approved AI platforms and follow company requirements for privacy, cybersecurity, records management, intellectual property, and human review. They will support the transition of awarded pricing information to contracts, finance, accounting, and project-management teams. They will recommend improvements to pricing templates, Excel tools, AI-assisted workflows, checklists, trackers, and standard operating procedures.