Costing Manager

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Costing Manager

United States - MI - MI

Key Responsibilities

• Leadthe collection, validation, and integration of relevant cross-functional business case inputs intoquote proposals.
  • Ensure the product
    
    Bill of Materials (BOM) is complete,logical, and supported by appropriate cost assumptions. Develop and apply an understanding of make-versus-buyconsiderations, including the ability to articulatethepurchased-part strategy.
  • Evaluate manufacturing quote assumptions and their relationship to key cost drivers, including machine cycle time, labor, indirect costs, scrap, equipment, and tooling. Communicate effectively with stakeholders regarding input assumptions, overall reasonableness, and competitiveness of resulting quotes.
  • Develop and apply knowledge of overhead costing methodologies within business cases, including machine overhead rates, variable and fixed costs, and labor costs.
  • Understand and apply knowledge of production capabilities across the company’s manufacturing plant network.
  • Constructively challenge cross-functional assumptions to support the development of cost-effective production solutions.
  • Ensure key business case parameters are accurately reflected in the forecast, including program volumes, production timing, full value-stream impact, freight, and delivery implications.
  • Clearly communicate key business considerations, risks, opportunities, and profitability assumptionswithin completed business cases.
  • Provide a comprehensive handoff upon quote completion to internal Phase 2-5 SDT teams.
  • Develop andapply an understanding of key KPI assumptions, including the abilitytoidentify and communicate concerns or risks within business cases.
  • 20% Travel expectation to respective Yanfeng locations.

Additional Responsibilities

• Support non-quoting initiatives as required.
  • Perform plant cost reviews,support cross-functional alignment, and identify internalcost-improvement opportunities.
  • Conduct plant-specific reviews of structural changes and opportunities to enhance organizational competitiveness.
  • Support annual overhead rate updates. Plant-specific collaboration will be assigned on an as-needed basis, including iterative rate-study updates and overlays.
  • Coordinate and estimate economic factorsto be considered in new quote development.
  • Support Phase 2-5 SDT teams on assigned programs to ensure acomplete feedback loopfor potential adjustments.
  • Support the design, development, and application of commodity cost models.
  • Perform large-volume data analysis and summarization, including reviewing, assessing, and synthesizing data from multiple systems.
  • Support projects that strengthen internal competitive intelligencerelated to supplier expectations and assess identified gaps between YF,suppliers, and other Tier 2 suppliers.
  • Identify and support material cost-reduction opportunities to improve organizational profitability.

Required Skills

• Manufacturing finance background and experience preferred, with the ability to understand the development of business cases, including P&L, Capex, margins, ROS, and IRR.
• A comprehensive understanding of overhead rates and how our organization monitors and assesses various financialKPIs.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across multiple functions and backgrounds.
• Ability to summarizecomplex information and communicate key pointsclearly, professionally, and accurately to internal stakeholders.
• Strong business acumen, withtheability to prioritize topics basedon potentialmaterial impact.

Qualifications

• Minimumof five years of relevant professional work experience.
• Minimu…