SRT Cost Manager

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

Job summary

Stellantis Financial Services seeks a SRT Cost Manager to own cost development for programs from Intention Milestone to Contract Commitment Milestone and beyond. You will ensure total production cost and tooling costs support the business case, working with cross-functional teams and all management levels.

The role emphasizes cost targeting, program management, and ability to propose design alternatives to meet aggressive cost targets, using tools like PCS CPA Year over Year and QlikSense.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Bachelor of Science degree in Finance
• 10+ years automotive industry experience in vehicle/component design/release engineering, cost analysis or program management
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Ability to drive change and present ideas at all management levels
• MS Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)

Responsibilities

• Develop component level cost targets and top-down budget allocation
• Apply reference vehicle data and low-cost country savings to EBOM data
• Understand vehicle systems and subsystems for cost targets and tradeoffs
• Identify and organize technical commodities by function
• Lead cross-functional reviews of cost status to target and governance reporting

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