The Role
The Vehicle Cost Coordinator supports cost management for vehicle programs by building models, performing reviews, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain cost data integrity.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
This position is responsible for:
- Supporting the Vehicle Cost Manager (Serial Life) in executing PCS/TPC and program economics deliverables for assigned vehicle programs
- Building and maintaining cost models, trackers, and reconciliations (including component-level targets and cost-to-target gaps)
- Performing bill of material (EBOM) reviews, part break-out, and system/subsystem rollups to identify cost drivers and changes by model year
- Partnering with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Purchasing, MGA/Plant, S&M, FP&A) to validate assumptions, resolve data issues, and align on targets
- Maintaining data quality and version control across tools and repositories; documenting assumptions and changes to support traceability
What You Will Learn:
- How PCS, TPC, and program cost targets are developed, tracked, and reported
- How to interpret and use EBOM/STV data to perform rollups and analyze deltas
- Vehicle systems/subsystems content and how design, sourcing, and manufacturing decisions impact cost
- Professional communication and story-telling with data for management reviews
What This Role Will Prepare You For:
- Senior Analyst / Lead Analyst roles in Product Cost, Program Finance, or Vehicle Cost Engineering
- Program cost leadership assignments (vehicle line, platform, or commodity)
- Broader controllership and business case roles supporting product development and sourcing
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering (ABET preferred), or related field
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience
- Experience in automotive finance, product cost, program management, engineering, purchasing, or analytical roles
- Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel capability (e.g., pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP) and ability to build clear, auditable models
- Strong communication skills (written and oral) and ability to prepare concise, management-ready summaries
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and work effectively with cross-functional partners
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with costing, BOM, or sourcing systems/tools (e.g., EBOM & STV, Cost Service Tool/Checkbook, Fastcar2,
- QlikSense, GST, PentaSAP)
- Understanding of vehicle systems/subsystems and ability to translate technical content into cost impacts
- Advanced user in MS Office suite. Excel (e.g. pivot tables, VLOOKUP, charts), Co-pilot, Powerpoint
- PowerPoint proficiency and experience creating executive-ready decks and clear narrative summaries
- Experience supporting forecast/budget processes and/or tooling and variable cost estimating
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment; proactive, detail-oriented, and continuous improvement mindset
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering or related field
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience
- Experience in automotive finance, product cost, program management, engineering, purchasing, or analytical roles
- Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel capability
- Strong communication skills and ability to prepare concise summaries
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Experience with costing, BOM, or sourcing systems/tools
- Understanding of vehicle systems/subsystems
- Advanced user in MS Office suite
- Experience supporting forecast/budget processes
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The Company
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.
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