Pricing Associate

ICF is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Pricing Associate to join our Corporate Pricing this role youll help develop accurate compliant and competitive pricing solutions that support ICFs proposals and contribute to meaningful client outcomes. You will work with members of the pricing department operations teams capture managers contracts finance and proposal professionals to analyze solicitation requirements support pricing models and help prepare cost and business proposals for federal state local and commercial clients.

This is a strong opportunity for an early-career professional who is interested in growing in pricing finance cost analysis and government contracting. Youll gain exposure to the full proposal lifecycle learn from experienced pricing professionals and build skills in financial analysis compliance collaboration and business strategy. The successful candidate will bring strong analytical skills intellectual curiosity a collaborative mindset and a commitment to accuracy and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development of timely accurate and compliant cost and business proposals that help ICF compete effectively and deliver strong value to clients.

• Review requests for proposals and related documents to identify pricing requirements evaluation criteria submission instructions compliance considerations and key assumptions.

• Assist in building maintaining and quality-checking pricing models including labor other direct costs travel subcontractor costs indirect rates fees and escalation assumptions.

• Collect organize and analyze cost inputs from operations subcontractors finance contracts and other stakeholders to support complete clear and defensible pricing submissions.

• Document pricing assumptions methodologies and supporting rationale so proposal teams and reviewers can easily understand how pricing aligns with the proposed technical approach.

• Participate in pricing strategy discussions proposal reviews color team reviews and internal approval processes by preparing analyses and responding to reviewer feedback.

• Prepare financial analyses scenario comparisons and pricing summaries that help proposal teams evaluate competitiveness profitability and risk.

• Contribute ideas to improve pricing templates tools quality controls and processes that support consistency compliance and efficiency across proposals.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business Accounting Finance Economics Mathematics or a related field or equivalent professional experience in lieu of a degree.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel including formulas data organization workbook review and the ability to learn and work with detailed pricing models.

• Strong analytical organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to work accurately with financial operational and proposal data.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills including the ability to summarize assumptions analyses and recommendations for different audiences.

• Attention to detail sound judgment and the ability to follow structured processes and meet deadlines.

• Interest in cost estimation pricing financial analysis business operations government consulting or government contracting.

• Ability to work core hours M-F 9am 5pm EST

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to government contracting proposal development professional services pricing cost accounting principles and the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

• Experience using other Microsoft Office tools including Word PowerPoint Teams Outlook and Adobe Acrobat.

• Ability to balance multiple assignments competing priorities and tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy and professionalism.

• Collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams ask thoughtful questions and resolve issues constructively.

• Curiosity initiative and a desire to grow within pricing finance proposal development or government contracting.

Working at ICF

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: