The SRT Cost Manager is responsible for managing cost development (cost loops and assessments) for programs up to and including the contract commitment milestone. Activity begins with Intention Milestone and continues through Contract Commitment Milestone and potentially to 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.
Critical Skills:
- Develop component level cost targets, applying vehicle top-down budget allocation.
- Understand and apply reference vehicle data and Low Cost Country 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 Expertise:
- Microsoft Office Suite (Excel & Powerpoint)
- 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:
- Minimum of a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Finance or related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of Automotive Industry experience in vehicle / component design / release engineering, vehicle finance cost, program management, and / or component cost analysis
- 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:
- Advanced technical or management degree
- Excellent relationship building skills
- Ability to present ideas and concepts successfully to all levels of management
- Ability to productively manage change
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
- Excellent MS Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)
- Engineering vehicle cost analysis experience
- Familiarity with finance terminology
- Experience using financial management systems (Fastcar2 is preferred)
- Tooling and variable cost estimating
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Finance
- Minimum of 10 years automotive industry experience in vehicle/component design, release engineering, vehicle finance cost, program management, or component cost analysis
- Develop component-level cost targets and apply vehicle top-down budget allocation
- Understand vehicle construction by systems and subsystems, part breakup, and assembly processes
- Identify and propose design alternatives to meet aggressive cost targets
- Lead cross-functional team reviews of cost status, component sourcing, and governance cost report-outs
- Strong leadership, communication, people skills, and ability to present to all management levels
- Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
- Proficiency with Excel commands (Vlookup, pivot tables)
- Experience with Cost Service Tool and Vehicle Program Checkbook
- Experience with EBOM and STV
- Familiarity with SMAK (vehicle volume tracking) and QlikSense
- Experience with Product Cost Study (PCS) CPA Year over Year Tool
- Familiarity with Global Sourcing Tool (GST), Sourcing Offset Forms, and Global Bulletin System
- Experience with PentaSAP
- Experience using financial management systems (Fastcar2 preferred)
- Tooling and variable cost estimating experience
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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