About the role
Senior Product Cost Manager role based on the published job description. Key responsibilities and requirements were extracted directly from the posting for quick review.
Consumer ElectronicsOnsite
Key Responsibilities
- GPC is responsible for product cost across the entire Dyson product range (Floorcare, haircare, environmental care, new categories).
- This Product Cost Manager is responsible for the Haircare portfolio of NPD projects from inception till its launch into the marketplace.
- Responsibility to drive E2E product cost governance, optimize cost, maximize efficiencies, make recommendations to drive NPD projects to achieve profitability targets Responsible for providing timely, accurate and insightful analysis on product cost to support project milestone, financial health checks, change management and risk-opportunity tracking.
- Generate cost build up estimates for new NPD Research Design and Development (RDD) projects and evaluating multiple design alternatives for lowest cost possible.
- Responsible for embedding new ways of working across the cross functional team to raise the profile and importance of product cost.
- Embedding a new cost-conscious environment to manage product cost transparency and accountability.
Requirements
- You thrive in an ever-evolving environment with global presences and multiple stakeholders You are energized by solving problems by bringing people with competing goals to the same table to achieve a common goal An engineering / manufacturing/ cost accounting degree with previous experience and more than 10 years in a product cost engineering role.
- Proven experience dealing with change transformation and introducing new process or ways of working You have the ability to both think strategically and operationalize those strategic plans into execution plans with clear set of KPI to drive towards success Working experience in Consumer Products Industry and/or Technology business.
- Governance of detailed 'should cost ' to validate supplier quotes and ensure target cost achieved.
- Knowledge of manufacturing capabilities such as plastic injection moulding, metal extrusion/stamping, rubber over-mould and electronics PCB assembly.
- Knowledge of design optimization using Value-Engineering Concept.
- Demonstrable strong analytical ability to provide cost insight and actionable deliverables.