Project Cost Manager

Stellantis; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellantis is seeking an Economics Manager to oversee cost development for vehicle programs from Pre-Contract Commitment to Start of Production and possibly end of life. This role ensures target costs, tooling costs, and buy-in align with the business case, collaborating with executives and release engineers.

The manager will lead cross-functional cost reviews, drive design alternatives, and manage multiple cost tools and reference data to optimize total program cost.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Finance with 10 years of overall experience.
• 8 years of Automotive Industry experience.
• Excellent leadership communications / people skills Attention to detail
• Ablе to motivate and lead people that do not report directly to you
• MS Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)

Responsibilities

• Develop component level cost targets, applying vehicle top-down budget allocation.
• Understand and apply reference vehicle data and design to cost 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

Skills

Leadership communications

Change management

Attention to detail

Present ideas to management

Team leadership

People management

Education

Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering

Bachelor of Science degree in Finance

Tools

Excel

Cost Service Tool / Vehicle Program Checkbook

Fastcar2

EBOM & STV

SMAK

QlikSense

PCS CPA Year over Year Tool

GST & Sourcing Offset Forms

PentaSAP

Global Bulletin System

Job description

Overview

The Cross Carline and Project Engineering Team is a critical part of the vehicle development with responsibility to ensure overall program level feasibility and target setting. The Economics Manager is responsible for managing cost development (cost loops and assessments) for programs from the Pre-Contract Commitment Milestone through Start of Production and potentially 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.

Job responsibilities

• Develop component level cost targets, applying vehicle top-down budget allocation
• Understand and apply reference vehicle data and design to cost 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

Methodology/Tools Knowledge

• Excel commands (Vlookup, pivot tables)
• Cost Service Tool / Vehicle Program Checkbook
• Fastcar2
• EBOM & STV
• SMAK (Vehicle volume tracking)
• QlikSense
• Product Cost Study (PCS) CPA Year over Year Tool
• Global Sourcing Tool (GST) & Sourcing Offset Forms
• PentaSAP
• Global Bulletin System

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering or Bachelor of Science degree in Finance
• 10 years of overall experience
• 8 years of Automotive Industry experience
• Excellent leadership communications / people skills 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)

Preferred Qualifications

• Program lifecycle experience
• Experience in Vehicle Cost Engineering, Vehicle Finance, or Component Cost Analysis
• Experience in various BICEEP discipline

At Stellantis, we assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from all people without regard to sex, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diverse teams reflect our identity as a global company, enabling us to better address the evolving needs of our customers and care for our future.