COST ANALYST
About this position
Responsibilities
• Accountable for delivering competitive material pricing solutions to support growth and margins as per company objectives.
• Collaborate with global customer unit, customer, program management, business proposal lead, finance, and/or sales to determine material pricing strategy.
• Align on trade-offs between proposal cycle-time, solution precision, and scope with clients to deliver an agreed to price strategy.
• Project manage supply chain solutions with commodity management, costing teams, and engineering teams to deliver desired pricing and margin solutions.
• Prepares material pricing solutions for new business opportunities (bids) and manages ongoing pricing through the lifecycle of the product (re-pricing) including generation of Bill of Material, cost competitive analysis, and margin recommendations.
• Provide insight and recommendations to support external (customers or suppliers) negotiations.
• Presents proposed solution to key stakeholders.
• Perform take-down trends analysis and modelling to leverage insight in service requests.
• Conduct market research and generate product teardowns to enable competitiveness assessments in service requests.
• Proactively drive continuous improvement in margin expansion, cycle time, pricing competitiveness, pricing tactics, and process efficiency.
Requirements
• At least 3 years (preferably 5 years) of working experience in the EMS or an MNC environment.
• Experience should include cost analysis skills, knowledge in material pricing and strategy.
• Good supply base knowledge of mechanical, electro-mechanical commodities such as plastic/cables, connectors, modules, PCBs, etc.
• Proven experience in successful VA/VE proposals.
• Knowledge in SAP is an added advantage.
• Familiarity of Microsoft Office is a pre-requisite.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or similar.