Project Cost Manager

Stellantis Financial Services; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellantis Financial Services seeks an Economics Manager to lead cost development for programs from pre-contract milestones through production. You will own the target development process to ensure total production and tooling costs are complete and rational for the business case.

You will collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams and all management levels to drive cost targets, provide data-driven insight, and influence decisions across the vehicle program lifecycle.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Engineering or Finance, or both.
• 10 years of overall experience with 8+ years in Automotive.
• Strong leadership, communication, and change management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop component cost targets using top-down budget allocation.
• Apply reference vehicle data and design-to-cost savings to EBOM data.
• Understand vehicle systems and subsystems and part breakups.
• Organize technical commodities by function and propose cost-saving alternatives.
• Lead cross-functional cost reviews and governance reporting.

Skills

Leadership communications

Attention to detail

Change management

Present ideas to management

People management

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Finance

Tools

MS Office

Job description

The Cross Carline and Project Engineering Team is a critical part of the vehicle development with responsibly 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 include but are not limited to:

• 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