Position description
- Responsible to own overall product cost and drive product cost optimization activities.
- Analize current product cost situation, identify gaps in design or sourcing, coordinate activities between engineering, procurement, and vendors to achieve optimized product cost.
Responsibilities
- Product cost analysis
- Breakdown current product cost into individual subsystems and components.
- Analize individual cost components and compare them to benchmark (internal and external).
- Identify cost gaps.
- Communicate effectively the cost situation within the project team and to GBE leadership team.
- Cost Optimization
- Actively drive the cross functional team of engineers and buyers to identify opportunities for cost optimization.
- Organize workshops with internal and external teams to identify opportunities for cost improvements.
- Project manage cost reduction assignments to assure their timely implementation.
- Drive overall product cost level to the limits established by the program business case.
- Support Program Managers with Risk assessment and Change Management processes impacted by cost reduction subprojects.
- Support Program Managers with impact to project cost planning resulting from any cost reduction subprojects.
Candidate Skills
Leadership & People Management
- Delegate efficiently to the team members and stakeholders and hold them accountable to the agreed targets
- Resolve conflict between project stakeholders, using cross-functional reviews
- Motivate the team to adhere to the agreed plan and deliver per target
- Influence decisions to a positive outcome for the project completion
- Coaching and leading by example the project team across cultures and geographical regions
Communication
- Report accurate status of product cost, monitor implementation and escalate to the Leadership team when appropriate.
- Lead regular product cost status reviews with the stakeholders.
- Prepare and present a formal status report to relevant committees.
- Listening to stakeholders’ needs and address concerns
- Tailor communication to audience
Professionalism & Personal Effectiveness
- Work independently with limited to no supervision
- Take ownership and be accountable of your commitment and actions
- Multitask on multi-projects, multi-customer, multi-region and multi-technologies
Cognitive
- Analytical thinking and problem solving
- Conceptual thinking
Candidate Knowledge, Experience & Education
Product
- University degree or Post graduation with Management or Engineering Degree.
Processes & Systems
- Project Management experience (min 2yrs) or relevant experience in a similar function (coordination of cross functional team).
- Technical savviness, engineering degree is a plus. Need to be able to understand mechatronic product including mechanical, electrical, and software design concepts.
- Experience in global company work environment, ability to drive others to execution.
- Foreign language fluency – relative to the allocated customer portfolio (English is a must)
- IT (Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP etc.)..
- Optional: Six Sigma Certified
