Project Economics Manager

Stellantis • Auburn Hills, MI

20h

About The Position

The Economics 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering from an ABET accredited university or Bachelor of Science degree in Finance
• 8 years of Automotive Industry experience
• Experience in vehicle / component design / release engineering, vehicle finance cost,program management, and / or component cost analysis
• 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)
• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

What This Job Offers

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