**Description** SAIC is seeking an experienced and motivated Cost Strategy Senior Principal to join the Corporate Pricing Team. Candidates must demonstrate strong analytical, collaborative, critical thinking, and problem-solving experience. Candidates must also work well under pressure. **This position is 100% remote nationwide.** Job Responsibilities: + Analyze competitive landscapes to inform strategic decisions + Read RFP and formulate questions to Gov if draft RFP/RFP has conflicting data + Prepare financial charts highlighting financial business model; risks, key assumptions; business metrics + Develop comprehensive strategic approach to pricing bid case and execution case to meet corporate benchmarks + Identify potential risks and devising mitigation strategies + Facilitate communication across departments to ensure strategy alignment + Prepare financial charts highlighting financial business model; risks, key assumptions; business metrics + Analyze PWS and identify appropriate job families and skill levels + Map RFP labor categories to the SAIC job families based on job description, education, and qualifications + Coordinate with procurement and pricing to generate subcontractor labor templates + Derive targets for subcontractors and analyze results + Coordinate with Solution Architects to obtain estimates **Qualifications** Requirements: + Bachelors and fifteen (15) years or more of related experience; Masters and thirteen (13) years or more experience; PhD or JD and ten (10) years or more experience + Minimum ten (10) years’ experience in Basis of Estimate (BOE) development + Candidate should be familiar with multiple program types (CPAF, CPFF, LOE, FPLOE, FFP, T&M, IDIQs, etc.) with varying degree of complexities. + Demonstrate the ability to process and analyze large volumes of data in Excel and consolidate into management level reports. + Knowledge of general and corporate business practices, government contracting regulations and principles, and accounting and finance principles + Expert-level experience in Excel, MS Office, and highly proficient in IF formulas, VLOOKUP formulas and pivot tables + Highly proficient in revenue recognition methods and profitability analysis + Proven ability to analyze job market trends and incorporate data into BOE development + Experience with Request for Proposals (RFPs), and formulating cost strategies to increase Price-To-Win (PTW) + Can make decisions using sound judgment while complying with policies, procedures, accounting principles. + Ability to prioritize and work with minimal supervision (self-starter), be persistent in follow-through, and perform effectively within deadlines. + Ability to balance long-term thinking with short-term execution. + Must be able to multi-task and support program with efficiency and accuracy. SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline. Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2502624 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability