Competitive Cost Benchmarking Co-Pilot

Stellantis•Auburn Hills, MI

27d

About The Position

The Competitive Cost Benchmarking (CCB) Co-Pilot will act as the "control tower" of Cost Benchmarking activities within Stellantis, ensuring alignment with all stakeholders (Engineering, Plants, Customer & Marketing Intelligence). It will identify needs based on internal requests competitor trends, leveraging interactions with third-party partners to support Cost & Total Production Cost in improving vehicle costs. The CCB will operate globally with a consistent approach across the regions, fostering connections and driving improvements everywhere. The CCB will create synergies and build a strong benchmarking network, both inside and outside Stellantis, through collaboration with competitor benchmarking companies (third parties). We are looking for a regional role, which will primarily interface with the Head of the Tech center, Program CVE and Planning.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent
Minimum of 8 years experience in Cost, BOM Management, and cost consolidation
Strong knowledge in: Engineering and vehicle technology and Costing (cost management, cost consideration and cost evaluation)
Project Management (planning skills, teamwork, budget management, like to PEM role)
Advanced Skills in Excel and data management
Must be well-organized, well versed in establishing priorities, support other organization needs and requirements

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in engineering or equivalent

Responsibilities

Provide robust & detailed competitors TPC evaluation (complete vehicle, system level), compare with STLA vehicles to define and implement challenging opportunities
Establish & update BIC Target. Update when is needed to guarantee challenge target for next Programs
Create and manage CCB Plan yearly based, collecting all the needs from CTPC & stakeholders. CCB will be the “control tower” in CTPC for all cost bench activities managing and reporting about budget, activities & results
Work in synergies, create a network with benchmarking stakeholder like PDT\Benchmarking team, Eng Meta function & w\ external suppliers
Create a robust database, able to support decision for new development, serial life & transversal comparison
Manage all the proposal created through a system connected w\ all the stakeholder to facilitated the implementation
CCB team will work globally with the same approach in all regions
Contact point w\ 3rd party, to reach all the news, trend opportunities
Plants, transversal marketing across all stakeholders to spread CCB studies and collects needs
Define area of improvement in STLA, based on collected needs and comeback from 3rd party