Engineer Commodity – Cost and Value Engineering

• * Drive integration of state-of-the art Cost and Value Engineering in the business processes. Foster cross-functional mindset change towards cost and value awareness.
• * Establish transparency in cost and value of products, systems and solutions and contribute improvement proposals to support PLM in Target Costing, R&D/Engineering in Design to Value, SCM in Supply Chain Productivity Improvement, Procurement in negotiations along the PLM / PM process.
• * Contribute to competitiveness and profitability of Siemens products and solutions through application of Cost and Value Engineering levers and methods.
• * Support setting of competitive and at the same time achievable targets based on the assessment of customer requirements, competitors’ products and solutions and on a clear judgment on our own and our suppliers’ capabilities.
• * Supports definition and optimization of product architecture and component specifications to ensure an adequate product and solution design.
• * Supports building the appropriate supply chain by making the right supplier selections, offshoring or onshoring decisions, respectively, and applying make or buy appropriately.
• * Supports achieving optimal commercial conditions by feeding our negotiations with precise information on our suppliers’ actual and expected costs.
• * Foster a CVE network and Siemens-wide knowledge exchange and contribute expertise to the network.

Qualification

• •Bachelor or above education background, preferred in Mechanical Engineering
• •5+ years of experience in R&D/ Engineering, Production or production engineering
• •Advanced customer value and costing knowledge, cost structure analysis, cost modeling and process analysis.
• •Experience in CVE is preferred, in particular in cost structure analysis.
• •Strong communication skills (English) and team work skills.
• •Advanced assertiveness, negotiating and interpersonal skills
• •Basic project management skills, commercial knowledge
• •Experiences in different cultural environments, collaboration in cross- functional project teams.

Your contact person(s) for this job posting is/are:

Thirumalai Kumar T

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