Costing Analyst Manager

Job Overview

The Cost Analyst Manager plays a crucial role in the cost management and analysis of project, ensuring accurate and comprehensive lowest possible cost for a given design.
Actively contributing to implementation and continual improvement on organization of should-cost strategy.
Collaborating across different departments, the analyst consolidates cost information, ensures compliance, and provides insights for increase profitability. 
Reports to ICT Finance Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

Should Cost Model development:
•    Implementation and organization of should-cost model/ target cost activities with external partners for the continuous improvement of the price level and standards
•    Estimate costs based on defined product basis, utilizing should cost calculation system and database.
•    Maintain consistency between costing, product process definition, and support functions' inputs.
•    Provide real-time updates, gap analysis, and directional cost assessments to internal customers.

Cost Information Analysis:
•    Analyse and challenge provided cost information.
•    Gather and consolidate part prices, investments, and costing data for defined products and potential industrial paths.
•    Provide cost information status and ongoing monitoring with detailed follow-up and traceability.

Key function for Engineering, Sales, PM, PjM and Procurement:
•    Assist sales teams in technical discussions with customers, including material consumption, labor.. providing valuable insights to improve profitability.
•    Work closely with product engineering during the product development phase and support analysis of component cost to help drive margin improvement.
•    Participate in technical choices and hypotheses during the sourcing phase together with acquisition team.
•    Support sales and purchasing in customer and external supplier negotiations (CBDs).
•    Support PjM/PM in preparing CER financials, including risk and opportunity TPA estimates.

Team Management and Continuous Improvement:
•    Collaborate as to ensure used costing database is recurrently updated (Secure the use of official rates for materials, plants, and machines)
•    Potentially manage or coach should cost analysts.
•    Support continuous improvement processes related to tools and methodologies.

Requirements:

•    Master's degree in engineering with a specialization in Production and Finance
•    Minimum 5/8 years of experience in an industrial environment, including technical experience in production or manufacturing engineering// Prefer experience in the automotive industry.
•    Technical knowledge in one or more products and manufacturing processes (Moulding, stamping, Assembly…)
•    Ability to provide qualitative and reliable information
•    Strong communication skills and autonomy.
•    Fluent in English.

Competencies