Product Cost Leader

Schneider Electric•Franklin, OH

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Schneider Electric has a meaningful opportunity available for a Product Cost Leader. You will work for a company consistently rated by Fortune as one of the “Great Places to Work”, by Glassdoor as the 11th spot on the “Best Place To Work” and by TIME as the “Most Sustainable Company in the World.” The Product Cost Leader oversees Product Cost Calculation for new offers, From Launching to Mature year of production. During new offer development project, ensures that the product cost forecast assumptions and input from architect, design, industrial team, purchasing, plants, hourly rates, supply chain, are properly compiled, accurately consolidated, and strongly challenged during all phases of the OCP process to reach Product Cost Target from marketing. Position in the project as an Expert and as Leader function.

Requirements

PC software literacy
MS EXCEL and PPT (Mandatory)
Fluent in English
Knowledge on Engineering / Industrial
Knowledge on Purchasing & Finance
Project management oriented
Minimum 2 years working experience

Nice To Haves

Power Query and VBA basic
SAP Basic

Responsibilities

Calculate the detailed cost of a new product as per Schneider Electric Methodology
Make sure that cost evaluation of a new product with all its assumptions is shared and accepted by the manufacturing plant and the different stakeholders
Follow up and update costs during project life, on a regular basis
Compares different techno-industrial solutions and find out the best through ROI calculation
Collect data from all Schneider sources (Purchase, Finances, Mfg. Plants, Logistics, etc.) including France and other countries and consolidate them.
Brings challenges for cost reduction by fixing aggressive but achievable targets
Perform value analysis on existing products and set targets to achieve productivity
Estimates cost for parts of products localization of rebalancing