Pricing Analysis & Planning
🌎Review and analyse quotations from overseas catering service providers and local meal suppliers to ensure alignment with menu specifications and contractual pricing terms.
🌎Compare quotations against historical pricing and highlight pricing gaps with preliminary root cause analysis.
🌎Support the preparation of pricing and trend reports, including market movement observations, for informed decision-making.
🌎Identify prices irregularities (e.g., portion size variance, ingredient ratio deviations, pricing discrepancies etc) and escalate findings with recommended actions.
🌎Ensure quotations are accurately validated and submitted for pricing approval in accordance with contractual and governance requirements.

Governance & Control
🌎Maintain centralized quotation and pricing documentation from all catering service providers and meal suppliers to ensure complete audit traceability.
🌎Execute pricing processes accurately in the In-Flight Systems to support compliant approval processes and pricing control standards.
🌎Track menu specification and pricing approval progress, ensuring timely follow-through to avoid deployment delays.
🌎Support cost optimization by identifying and recommending adjustments to menu components or ingredients where appropriate.
🌎Liaise with overseas catering service providers and suppliers to ensure quotation accuracy and alignment with final deployed menus and service specifications.
🌎Monitor and report any unvetted or unauthorized menu implementations to protect governance and compliance integrity.

Contract & Commercial Pricing
🌎Support the Manager in maintaining accurate recipe and menu costing data, including raw material pricing and yield assumptions.
🌎Establish and maintain a structured database of raw material cost records and supplier benchmarking information to support commercial analytics.
🌎Monitor fluctuations in raw material prices and highlight key cost trends for commercial and menu planning decision support.
🌎Assist in tracking and analyzing yield losses and recipe consistency to support cost accuracy and compliance.
🌎Assist the Manager in preparing cost models and pricing inputs for commercial proposals, tenders, and bidding participation.