Sr Analyst, Competitive Intelligence & Price to Win

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Plan and execute opportunity-focused customer, competitor, and market research to develop foundational PTW assumptions.
- Conduct competitive pricing analysis using award history, incumbent performance, procurement trends, contract structures, and comparable market data.
- Develop top-down, bottom-up, and parametric analysis inputs; identify reasonableness ranges and explain key assumptions.
- Build, maintain, and improve bid-specific competitive pricing databases, templates, and analytical workpapers.
- Use analytical platforms and spreadsheet models to identify pricing patterns, cost drivers, and likely competitor strategies.
- Participate in pre-bid and RFP analysis to identify pricing risks, business risks, customer signals, and mitigation options in partnership with Business Development.
- Draft findings, insights, and recommendation materials for review; translate research into clear implications for bid strategy.
- Support strategy sessions, customer value proposition workshops, color/team reviews, and proposal team requests with data-backed insights.
- Mentor Analysts on research methods, data quality expectations, and PTW documentation practices.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 5+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Program Specific Requirements:

- Conduct competitive intelligence, pricing research, market analysis, opportunity research, or bid strategy analysis.

- Ability to collect, validate, organize, and analyze award history, incumbent information, procurement trends, contract structures, market benchmarks, labor categories, pricing patterns, cost drivers, and customer signals.

- Must be comfortable building analytical models, maintaining source logs and workpapers, explaining assumptions, identifying risks, and translating findings into clear implications for PTW, pricing, capture, and proposal decisions.

- Advanced Excel and analytical documentation skills preferred.

This position is fully remote and will require a home office.

Home office requirements:

Reliable high-speed internet service

Minimum 20 Mpbs download speeds/50 Mpbs for shared internet connectivity

Minimum 5 Mpbs upload speeds

EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment.

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