Platform Cost Leader

at  Garrett Advancing Motion

GARRETT IS THE TRUE PIONEER OF AUTOMOTIVE TURBOCHARGING DATING BACK MORE THAN 60 YEARS AND CONTINUES TODAY AS THE WORLD’S LEADER IN TURBO TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND AN EXPERIENCED SUPPLIER OF ELECTRIC BOOSTING PRODUCTS AND AUTOMOTIVE SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT PASSENGER CARS, COMMERCIAL VEHICLES AND OFF-HIGHWAY EQUIPMENT. WITH A WORLDWIDE FOOTPRINT OF ENGINEERING CENTERS, TESTING LABS AND MANUFACTURING FACILITIES, GARRETT SERVES ALL MAJOR AUTOMOTIVE COMPANIES TO IMPLEMENT KEY DIFFERENTIATED TECHNOLOGY OFFERINGS.

The Platform Cost Leader is responsible to document all cost items relative to a Bid to allow Sales Managers to quote on-time. He monitors Enterprise and Customer Team performance during launches. He will work closely with Sales managers and Enterprise teams to be the focal point of contact for all Bids preparation and cost monitoring during launches. He will be responsible for different Customer teams inside one Enterprise (GBE) and will not be driving quotation or negotiation with Customers. The cost analyst will define cost out and standardization roadmaps by product lines, promoting and support execution of cost reduction opportunities in all phases of the projects.

Responsibilities:

• Develop costing analysis to support Enterprises and Customer team’s business win targets.
• Will ensure any gaps are fully documented and escalated to the account director and enterprise leader for on-time alignment to meet the bid milestones.
• Drive Cost down road map related to full BOM over 3 year Bid plan within the enterprise
• Develop a complete cost proposal for each bid within the enterprise (preparing NPO cost estimation,
• Validate BOM creation to ensure standardization strategies are optimized. Set BOM cost targets with supply base and should cost team,
• Provide tooling cost breakdown and RDE budget estimation. Validate prototype BOM cost and tooling cost).
• Ensure Compliance with appropriate templates to ensure smooth communication x-functionally and with the customer teams.
• Train the CM team on all cost aspect to ensure adequate preparation for customer reviews by the Sales team.
• Ensuring hand over of non-lead application project to Customer Program Manager at bid award and validate cost for each phase exit till launch completed
• Keep monitoring the bid cost evolution post launches through participation to the Material Margin Escalation committee to ensure compliance to standardization targets.
• Assist the Sales manager with preparing the commercial offer wording to ensure baseline management compliance, (through gap analysis on specific request from customer such as T&Cs, quality targets, warranty obligations, SOW),
• Completing analysis, determining trends and statistics of cost per technology / vertical to anticipate potential future cost gap on future bids, the position will be a key link between the CM teams and the enterprises during the 3Y bid and Strap reviews.

Whilst the Customer team program manager is responsible to drive the TEFS change management process from award, he/she will be responsible to assess all de-standardization impact to ensure recovery by the customer team during the launch phases. He/ she will do so by tracking and monitor each bid during the phase exit reviews to ensure PQF targets agreed by the enterprise are met by the customer teams.

• Develop costing analysis to support Enterprises and Customer team’s business win targets.
• Will ensure any gaps are fully documented and escalated to the account director and enterprise leader for on-time alignment to meet the bid milestones.
• Drive Cost down road map related to full BOM over 3 year Bid plan within the enterprise
• Develop a complete cost proposal for each bid within the enterprise (preparing NPO cost estimation,
• Validate BOM creation to ensure standardization strategies are optimized. Set BOM cost targets with supply base and should cost team,
• Provide tooling cost breakdown and RDE budget estimation. Validate prototype BOM cost and tooling cost).
• Ensure Compliance with appropriate templates to ensure smooth communication x-functionally and with the customer teams.
• Train the CM team on all cost aspect to ensure adequate preparation for customer reviews by the Sales team.
• Ensuring hand over of non-lead application project to Customer Program Manager at bid award and validate cost for each phase exit till launch completed
• Keep monitoring the bid cost evolution post launches through participation to the Material Margin Escalation committee to ensure compliance to standardization targets.
• Assist the Sales manager with preparing the commercial offer wording to ensure baseline management compliance, (through gap analysis on specific request from customer such as T&Cs, quality targets, warranty obligations, SOW),
• Completing analysis, determining trends and statistics of cost per technology / vertical to anticipate potential future cost gap on future bids, the position will be a key link between the CM teams and the enterprises during the 3Y bid and Strap reviews