Project Cost Manager

Stellantis • Auburn Hills, MI

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About The Position

The Cross Carline and Project Engineering Team is a critical part of the vehicle development with responsibility 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.

Requirements

• 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)

Nice To Haves

• Program lifecycle experience
• Experience in Vehicle Cost Engineering, Vehicle Finance, or Component Cost Analysis
• Experience in various BICEEP discipline

Responsibilities

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager