The Cross Carline and Project Engineering Team is a critical part of the vehicle development with responsibly to ensure overall program level feasibility and target setting. The Economics Manager is responsible for managing cost development (cost loops and assessments) for programs from the Pre-Contract Commitment Milestone through Start of Production and potentially the end of life for a vehicle program. The Manager will own the target development process to ensure total production cost and supplier tooling costs are complete and rational to support the business case. The Manager will work with multiple cross functional organizations and all levels of management from senior executives to product design and release engineers.
Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Develop component level cost targets, applying vehicle top-down budget allocation
- Understand and apply reference vehicle data and design to cost savings to EBOM component level data
- Understanding of vehicle construction by systems (Body, Chassis, Powertrain, Interior, etc) and subsystems (Underbody, suspension, trim, cooling, HVAC, etc)
- Understand part break up of vehicles and how they are assembled
- Ability to identify and organize technical commodities into their functional purpose
- Identify and propose design alternatives to meet and exceed aggressive cost targets
- Lead cross functional team reviews of cost status to target, component sourcing, governance cost report outs
Methodology/Tools Knowledge:
- Excel commands (Vlookup, pivot tables)
- Cost Service Tool / Vehicle Program Checkbook
- Fastcar2
- EBOM & STV
- SMAK (Vehicle volume tracking)
- QlikSense
- Product Cost Study (PCS) CPA Year over Year Tool
- Global Sourcing Tool (GST) & Sourcing Offset Forms
- PentaSAP
- Global Bulletin System
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering or Bachelor of Science degree in Finance
- 10 years of overall experience
- 8 years of Automotive Industry experience
- Excellent leadership communications / people skills Attention to detail
- Able to manage change and present ideas / concepts to all levels of management
- Able to motivate and lead people that do not report directly to you
- MS Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Program lifecycle experience
- Experience in Vehicle Cost Engineering, Vehicle Finance, or Component Cost Analysis
- Experience in various BICEEP discipline
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Bachelor of Science in Finance
- 10 years of overall experience
- 8 years of Automotive industry experience
- Experience developing component-level cost targets and vehicle top-down budget allocation
- Knowledge of vehicle systems, subsystems, part breakup, and assembly processes
- Ability to identify technical commodities and propose design alternatives to meet cost targets
- Leadership, communication, and people skills; able to present to all management levels
- Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams including non-direct reports
- Proficiency with Excel (Vlookup, Pivot Tables) and MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Familiarity with Cost Service Tool / Vehicle Program Checkbook, Fastcar2, EBOM, STV, SMAK, QlikSense, PCS CPA Year over Year Tool, GST, PentaSAP, Global Bulletin System
- Program lifecycle experience
- Experience in Vehicle Cost Engineering, Vehicle Finance, or Component Cost Analysis
- Experience in various BICEEP disciplines
Stellantis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stellantis and has not been reviewed or approved by Stellantis.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Contract-driven increases lifted hourly wages roughly 25% over 4.5 years and restored cost-of-living adjustments, pushing top rates near $42 per hour by the end of the agreement. Union hourly positions appear to have benefited most since the 2023 deal.
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Affordable Benefits — UAW-represented hourly workers pay no premiums and about 3% of total healthcare costs while receiving comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and wellness coverage. This creates materially lower out-of-pocket costs for represented hourly roles.
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Retirement Support — Post-2007 hourly hires receive a 10% employer 401(k) contribution and legacy workers saw defined-benefit improvements with retiree bonuses. Salaried roles also cite a 401(k) with employer match and contribution up to a maximum of 8%.
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