Job Description:
The primary focus of the Cost Manager is to drive product cost targets through collaboration with Engineering, Procurement, and Operations. This role leads the overall process of Product Cost reporting, review, and prioritized cost improvement action execution for assigned products.
Key Responsibilities:
Establish current/actual product cost reporting capability and cadence of review. Continually monitor costs and margins. Perform cost variance reporting. Understand product cost structure, identify, and analyze quarterly variances. Establish product cost comparison among different manufacturing plants internally and externally.
Requirements:
Demonstratable experience in Engineering / Supply Chain or Manufacturing Operations and working with cross-functional teams to identify and execute on priority actions. Experience in analyzing and driving improvement in data reporting with Finance and IT systems. Ability to deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations by creating visual summaries of quantitative cost information. Build and continually improve dashboards to provide insight.
Preferred Qualifications:
Comfortable working autonomously. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to influence work colleagues at all levels. Experience in introducing new processes to an existing organization. Proven problem-solving abilities. Educational Background: Degree in Engineering preferred or equivalent experience in product engineering and manufacturing.