- The Technical Manager serves as a key technical leader within the Value Creation Program (VCP) B1 Direct Material Cost Workstream, responsible for identifying, developing, and accelerating Technical cost reduction opportunities across current production vehicle programs.
- This role leads the generation and execution of technical cost optimization initiatives by partnering closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Program Management, and suppliers. The position is responsible for building and maintaining a robust pipeline of technical ideas that improve cost competitiveness while preserving vehicle performance, quality, durability, safety, and customer satisfaction.
- A critical component of the role is planning, facilitating, and leading structured idea generation workshops with engineering organizations and suppliers to uncover innovative cost reduction opportunities and accelerate implementation.
- The ideal candidate combines strong automotive engineering expertise, technical cost management knowledge, workshop facilitation skills, and operational leadership to drive measurable value creation across the Stellantis product portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Cost Reduction Leadership
- Drive identification, development, and implementation of engineering-led direct material cost reduction initiatives
- Lead technical assessments of components, systems, and vehicle architectures to identify value optimization opportunities
Engineering Workshop Leadership
- Plan, organize, and facilitate technical cost reduction workshops across all engineering functions.
- Develop structured workshop agendas, methodologies, and deliverables focused on idea generation and rapid opportunity identification
- Ensure workshops generate high-quality ideas with clear ownership and implementation plans.
Supplier Innovation & Technical Collaboration
- Lead supplier-focused technical ideation workshops to identify cost reduction opportunities through innovation and supplier expertise
- Partner with suppliers to challenge current designs, manufacturing methods, and material selections.
- Facilitate collaborative engineering reviews
Technical Opportunity Development
- Build and maintain a robust pipeline of technical cost reduction initiatives.
- Work closely with engineering teams to mature ideas from concept through implementation.
- Coordinate feasibility reviews, technical validation, testing requirements, and approval activities.
- Support prioritization of opportunities based on financial impact, technical complexity, implementation timing, and business risk.
Technical Benchmarking & Competitive Analysis
- Support benchmark studies, teardowns, and competitive assessments
- Identify best-in-class technical solutions and opportunities for implementation
- Translate technical findings into actionable value creation opportunities
Ideal candidate
A highly respected automotive engineering professional who understands vehicle design, manufacturing, supplier capabilities, and cost drivers - and who can bring engineers and suppliers together to generate breakthrough technical ideas that deliver measurable direct material cost reductions without compromising vehicle quality, performance, or customer satisfaction
Preferred QualificationsBasic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or relative discipline.
- Minimum 7 years of automotive engineering, product development, cost engineering, manufacturing engineering, or technical program management experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives.
- Strong understanding of automotive systems, components, manufacturing processes, and product development.
- Excellent technical problem-solving and analytical skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE).
- Design-to-Cost or Cost Engineering experience.
- Supplier technical interface experience.
- Vehicle benchmarking and teardown experience.
- Product optimization and feature/content reduction expertise.
- Advanced degree (MS or MBA).
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Automotive Engineering, or related discipline.
- Minimum 7 years automotive engineering, product development, cost engineering, manufacturing engineering, or technical program management experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives.
- Strong understanding of automotive systems, components, manufacturing processes, and product development.
- Excellent technical problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Experience in Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE).
- Design-to-Cost or Cost Engineering experience.
- Supplier technical interface experience.
- Vehicle benchmarking and teardown experience.
- Product optimization and feature/content reduction expertise.
- Advanced degree (MS or MBA).
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%.
Stellantis Insights
What We Do
Our storied and iconic brands embody the passion of their visionary founders and today’s customers in their innovative products and services: they include Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall and mobility brands Free2move and Leasys. Powered by our diversity, we lead the way the world moves – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which we operate.
