Cost Development Lead Specialist

Overview

Fiat Chrysler-STELLANTIS México (Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati, Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge and RAM, Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel and Vauxhall), Global Company in the automotive sector is looking for a Cost Development Lead Specialist .

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Finance or related degree field
• 8 years of Automotive Industry experience
• Experience in vehicle / component design / release engineering, vehicle finance cost, program management, and / or component cost analysis
• Excellent leadership, communications / people skills, and attention to detail
• Able to manage change and present ideas / concepts to all levels of management
• Able to motivate and lead people that do not report directly to you
• MS Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)
• Advanced English

Preferred Qualifications

Responsibilities

The Economics Manager is responsible for managing cost development (cost loops and assessments) for programs up to and including the contract commitment milestone. Activity begins with Intention Milestone and continues through Contract Commitment Milestone and potentially to the end of life for a vehicle program. The Manager will own the target development process to ensure total production cost and supplier tooling costs are complete and rational to support the business case. The Manager will work with multiple cross functional organizations and all levels of management from senior executives to product Design and Release Engineers.

Critical skills

Develop component level cost targets, applying vehicle top-down budget allocation. Understand and apply reference vehicle data and Low Cost Country savings to EBOM component level data. Understanding of vehicle construction by systems (Body, Chassis, Powertrain, Interior, etc) and subsystems (Underbody, suspension, trim, cooling, HVAC, etc). Understand part break up of vehicles and how they are assembled. Ability to identify and organize technical commodities into their functional purpose. Identify and propose design alternatives to meet and exceed aggressive cost targets. Lead cross functional team reviews of cost status to target, component sourcing, governance cost report outs.

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We offer

Direct hiring

Above the law benefits

EOE / Disability / Veteran

At Stellantis, we assess candidates based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation and disability. Diverse teams will allow us to better meet the evolving needs of our customers and care for our future.

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