Platform Economics Manager - STLA Frame

Job Description:

The Economics Manager is responsible for managing the overall platform financials during the full program life cycle. This includes cost loops and assessments for programs from Pre-Contract Commitment through Serial Life.

Responsibilities:

• Own the target development process to ensure total production cost and supplier tooling costs are complete and rational to support the business case
• Achieve ER&D, Labor, and CAPEX financial objectives
• Lead budget forecast and reporting activities for ER&D, Labor, and CAPEX
• Work with multiple cross functional organizations and all levels of management from senior executives to product Design and Release Engineers
• Responsible for creation of component variable and investment targets within key systems to support the sourcing process per plan
• Responsible for the review and approval of program ER&D requisitions to ensure program financial objectives are met

Critical skills:

• Develop component level cost targets, applying vehicle top -down budget allocation
• Understand and apply reference vehicle data and Best Cost Country savings to EBOM component level data
• Understanding of vehicle construction by system (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 groups
• Identify and propose design alternatives to meet and exceed aggressive cost targets
• Lead cross functional team reviews of cost status to target, component sourcing, and governance cost report outs
• Working knowledge of component timing and cost
• Knowledge of VEMO Project Framing & convergence process

Methodology/Tools Expertise:

• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel & Powerpoint)
• Excel commands (Vlookup, pivot tables)
• Cost Service Tool / Vehicle Program Checkbook
• Fastcar2 / Global Bulletin System
• EBOM & STV
• SMAK (Vehicle volume tracking)
• QlikSense / Penta SAP
• Product Cost Study (PCS) CPA Year over Year Tool
• Global Sourcing Tool (GST) & Sourcing Offset Forms