JOB DESCRIPTION
Senior Cost Analyst
What can you expect?
Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With 70,000+ employees in 29 countries, Adient operates more than 200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual foam, trim and metal components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, visit www.adient.com.
At Adient, we are proud to offer hybrid working to our employees, which involves being able to work remotely for up to 5 days per week based on the agreement within specific department.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Develop and review product cost details: material usage, material cost, equipment requirements, labor requirements, cycle times, tooling and capital requirements for new business or changes to current business
- Technical interests and a desire to understand how things work
- Review complex bill of materials for reasonableness
- Review manufacturing assumptions for reasonableness
- Capacity to bring financial perspective to costing data
- Set targets of purchased items
- Support purchasing price negotiations as required through make/buy and target setting exercises
- Ability to bridge financial data
- Actively contribute to departmental initiatives/process improvements to enhance the overall department’s effectiveness
- Closed collaboration with the manufacturing plants
Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?
- Four Year College Technical Degree (Finance, Business, or Engineering desired)
- Experience in the automotive industry, automotive seating a plus
- Foreign language skills highly desired (English)
- Good computer skills, i.e., MS Office, especially excel and Teamcenter applications (JT)
- Proven interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Occasional travel required
Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.
We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dagmar Sováková on +421 910 828 746.
PRIMARY LOCATION
Bratislava Business Centre
Top Skills
What We Do
Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With approximately 77,000 employees in 32 countries, Adient operates 202 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into more than 19 million vehicles every year.
