Description

In this role, you will be at the forefront of optimizing cost management strategies, from defining global standards to analyzing market trends. Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve collaborating with various teams, leading projects, and developing training programs to enhance production efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Requirements

• •Master’s degree in Production Engineering, Production Management, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• •Leadership experience of international/interdisciplinary teams
• •10+ years of relevant professional experience in Operations
• •Expertise in product and production costing, profitability analysis, and time studies
• •Proven success in implementing and leading cost optimization programs
• •Deep understanding of production parameters and cost drivers
• •Experience in global governance and standardization of production and cost evaluation approaches
• •Strong analytical and conceptual skills, combined with strategic thinking and execution strength
• •Excellent communication and facilitation skills across all hierarchical levels
• •High willingness to travel internationally (>50%)
• •Fluent in English; German skills are an advantage
• •Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome

Tasks

• •Define and standardize global structures in Strategic Cost Management
• •Continuously optimize processes, tools, and methods across all Business Areas
• •Develop and implement an end-to-end Value & Cost Management approach
• •Support strategy development and roadmap planning for Strategic Value Management
• •Monitor and analyze market and technology trends for cost management enhancements
• •Design and improve key costing and evaluation processes
• •Develop a global evaluation and costing standard for production costs
• •Create automated GAP analysis and tracking mechanisms
• •Maintain a unified production cost/content library with target KPIs
• •Define calculation methodologies for production-related KPIs
• •Establish a single source of truth for production-related base data
• •Develop an operations catalogue for product cost calculation
• •Support strategic and operational projects in Cost Targeting and Cost Reduction
• •Identify cost reduction potentials and support target achievement
• •Collaborate with Central Business Controlling and Operations for evaluation harmonization
• •Conduct benchmarks and derive optimization measures for implementation
• •Develop a global footprint planning methodology with BAs and Operations
• •Lead international working groups and task forces across all levels
• •Ensure global governance of evaluation standards and operational KPIs
• •Align evaluation approaches with top management and coordinate global target KPIs
• •Develop and conduct global training programs on production and cost topics
• •Create internal and external publications and training materials
• •Support execution of global Lean Cost Audits and promote continuous improvement
• •Develop tools for cost tracking and analysis in production environments
• •Review production KPIs in cooperation with central Operations and BAs
• •Ensure transparent target setting at project and plant level
• •Contribute to the development of global operations strategies for competitiveness