Product Cost Engineer SWS

Your Tasks：

• Lead, coordinate Target Costing and Target Cost Achievement for mandated projects
• Support Sales w Cost Disclosure incl. Cost Breakdowns in front of the ZF customers
• Proactive responsible for Design-to-Cost-, Cost-Down-Initiatives (e.g. workshop moderation), and commercial evaluation of technical concepts/designs
• Provide Cost transparency on Product level, monitoring, reporting, and forecasting for Design-to-Cost/Target Cost Achievements
• Support Benchmarking and tear down workshops with commercial evaluations
• Create, check, and provide Product (and component) Cost calculations on Best Practice level
• First contact person for consulting support, and interface/sparring partner for internal stakeholders (Sales, Finance, Operations,  Purchasing & Engineering)
• Develop best practice procedures, and creation of knowledge data base

Your Profile：

• Degree in Manufacturing/Engineering/MBA/Business Engineering/Industrial Engineering (Bachelor, Master, Diploma)
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience and minimum 3 years in similar roles
• Distinct cost awareness and good knowledge of a variety of manufacturing processes and components
• Project Management experience with a holistic process understanding and a structured way of working
• Strong communicator, flexible, self-motivated and with an ability to work collaboratively with others on own initiatives
• Fluent in English. Additional languages preferred.