SRT Cost Manager

India; Auburn (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SRT is seeking an experienced Cost Manager to own target development, overseeing total production cost and supplier tooling costs for vehicle programs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and leadership, ensuring cost targets are rational and aligned with business cases.

Responsibilities include leading cost status reviews, applying reference data, and proposing design changes to meet ambitious targets while communicating with executives and engineers across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Finance required.
• Minimum 10 years Automotive Industry experience in cost analysis or program management.
• Excellent leadership, communication and detail orientation; able to influence across management levels.

Responsibilities

• Develop component level cost targets and ensure alignment with top-down budget.
• Lead cross-functional reviews of cost status, sourcing, and governance reporting.
• Identify design alternatives to meet aggressive cost targets and optimize total program cost.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Attention to detail

Change management

Presentation to management

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Finance

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Fastcar2

EBOM & STV

PCS CPA Year over Year Tool

Job description

The SRT Cost 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.

Methodology/Tools Expertise:

• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel & Powerpoint)
• 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
• Minimum of 10 years of Automotive Industry experience in vehicle / component design / release engineering, vehicle finance cost, program management, and / or component cost analysis
• Excellent leadershipcommunications / 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:

• Advanced technical or management degree
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Ability to present ideas and concepts successfully to all levels of management
• Ability to productively manage change
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
• Excellent MS Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)
• Engineering vehicle cost analysis experience
• Familiarity with finance terminology
• Experience using financial management systems (Fastcar2 is preferred)
• Tooling and variable cost estimating