Senior Procurement Program Cost Analyst

About the role

Dauch Corporation, a driveline and metal forming supplier for the global automotive industry, is hiring a Senior Procurement Program Cost Analyst. The role works within the Procurement group as a liaison between Procurement Category Management and Finance, estimating business cases accurately and in a timely way. It covers large-scale automotive programs, analyzes how program changes affect every component of a purchased parts bill of materials, and ensures supplier costs are accurate, reasonable and justifiable.

Key responsibilities

• Create, compile and present procurement pricing for new sourcing opportunities and design changes, and lay out price drivers for components.
• Represent Procurement in cross-functional meetings so that components are costed accurately and efficiently.
• Report to management on cost drivers for new business and major cost changes to support financial decisions.
• Analyze cost changes for products and processes such as castings, stampings, forgings and machining, including tooling investments, and coordinate multiple cost requests by prioritizing them and entering data manually.
• Organize and record supply base pricing to support future new business costing.
• Break down product technical requirements (weight, specs, material, prints) to support preliminary cost creation and multi-functional cost estimation.
• Evaluate the impact of production volume, tooling, lead-time and ED&T when costing Engineering Bill of Materials using Manufacturing Plans and Cost Models.
• Provide data analysis such as volume change comparisons, BOM changes and supply base overview, and make recommendations to leadership from the customer's viewpoint.
• Travel about 5% to plant and supplier sites to assess products and manufacturing processes.

Required profile

• BA/BS degree plus 7 years of professional experience, or an advanced degree plus 5 years, or 10 years of industry experience in manufacturing engineering or equivalent.
• Strong technical expertise in casting, stamping, machining and/or related categories; manufacturing experience preferred.
• Knowledge of automotive powertrain products and manufacturing methods preferred.
• Good understanding of financial indicators such as GP, NPV, payback, IRR and EBITDA.
• Willingness to travel to plant and supplier sites about 5% of the time.

Required skills

• Understanding of manufacturing processes for castings, forgings, machining, stampings and similar categories.
• Proficiency reading engineering drawings and specifications.
• Ability to analyze and challenge supplier quotes and cost breakdowns, and to define cost drivers in any manufacturing process.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, oral and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated, able to work independently.