Engineer Commodity - Cost and Value Engineering

Flender; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Flender in Chennai, India, is seeking a Cost and Value Engineering (CVE) professional with 5+ years in R&D/Engineering, Production or related fields. You will drive CVE initiatives, analyze cost structures, model costs, and support design-to-value activities across PLM, R&D, SCM, and procurement.

You will collaborate across functions, negotiate effectively, and contribute to product competitiveness by providing precise cost data and value insights.

Qualifications

• Advanced customer value and costing knowledge.
• Cost structure analysis, cost modeling and process analysis.
• Experience in CVE is preferred, especially cost structure analysis.
• Strong communication skills (English) and teamwork.
• Advanced assertiveness, negotiating and interpersonal skills.
• Basic project management skills and commercial knowledge.
• Experience in different cultural environments and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive integration of Cost and Value Engineering in business processes.
• Establish transparency in cost and value of products and contribute improvement proposals.
• Support competitiveness and profitability of Siemens products via CVE levers.
• Assist in setting achievable targets based on customer requirements and supplier capabilities.
• Support definition and optimization of product architecture and specifications.
• Help build the supply chain by supplier selections and offshoring/onshoring decisions.
• Feed negotiations with precise information on supplier costs.
• Foster CVE network and Siemens knowledge exchange.

Skills

Value engineering

Cost analysis

Cost modeling

Process analysis

English communication

Teamwork

Negotiation

Interpersonal skills

Project management basics

Commercial awareness

Cross-cultural collaboration

R&D/Engineering experience

Education

Bachelor or above in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

• Drive integration of state-of-the art Cost and Value Engineering in the business processes. Foster cross-functional mindset change towards cost and value awareness.
• Establish transparency in cost and value of products, systems and solutions and contribute improvement proposals to support PLM in Target Costing, R&D/Engineering in Design to Value, SCM in Supply Chain Productivity Improvement, Procurement in negotiations along the PLM / PM process.
• Contribute to competitiveness and profitability of Siemens products and solutions through application of Cost and Value Engineering levers and methods.
• Support setting of competitive and at the same time achievable targets based on the assessment of customer requirements, competitors' products and solutions and on a clear judgment on our own and our suppliers' capabilities.
• Supports definition and optimization of product architecture and component specifications to ensure an adequate product and solution design.
• Supports building the appropriate supply chain by making the right supplier selections, offshoring or onshoring decisions, respectively, and applying make or buy appropriately.
• Supports achieving optimal commercial conditions by feeding our negotiations with precise information on our suppliers' actual and expected costs.
• Foster a CVE network and Siemens-wide knowledge exchange and contribute expertise to the network.

Qualification

• Bachelor or above education background, preferred in Mechanical Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in R&D/ Engineering, Production or production engineering
• Advanced customer value and costing knowledge, cost structure analysis, cost modeling and process analysis.
• Experience in CVE is preferred, in particular in cost structure analysis.
• Strong communication skills (English) and team work skills.
• Advanced assertiveness, negotiating and interpersonal skills
• Basic project management skills, commercial knowledge
• Experiences in different cultural environments, collaboration in cross- functional project teams.

Your contact person(s) for this job posting is/are:

Thirumalai Kumar T

Flender is an Equal Opportunity and Affiliation Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.