Pricing Manager

Job Title: Pricing Manager Location : Dayton, OH Position Type: Full time Req ID: JR100480 Description: The Pricing Manager is the working leader of DDC's proposal pricing team and is accountable for both hands-on execution and team delivery. This role personally leads complex, strategic, high-value, or high-risk federal pricing efforts while coaching pricing analysts, allocating workload, enforcing review gates, and ensuring every submission is compliant, competitive, traceable, and executive-ready. This is a pre-award proposal-pricing role, not a corporate FP&A, accounting, program-control, or budgeting position. The Pricing Manager partners closely with Capture, Business Development, Proposal Management, Contracts, Finance, HR, Recruiting, Program Control, operating-company leadership, and executive approvers to translate pursuit strategy into defensible pricing decisions. The successful candidate brings deep GovCon pricing judgment, advanced Excel modeling skills, practical Price-to-Win experience, and demonstrated people-leadership. DDC is seeking a leader who can build trust, develop talent, set clear expectations, make sound decisions under pressure, and hold the team accountable while remaining actively engaged in the work. # Player-Coach Expectations Hands-On Pricing: Personally own complex bids, pricing models, Cost/Price Volumes, BOEs, pricing narratives, PTW scenarios, and executive approval packages. Team Leadership: Coach analysts through live pursuits, review work products, set priorities, balance capacity, provide actionable feedback, and hold the team accountable for delivery. Pricing Governance: Maintain pricing-process discipline, version control, assumption logs, compliance matrices, independent reviews, and final reconciliation across all submission artifacts. Executive Advisory:[]{style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica "}