Group Costing Leader

The **Adler Pelzer Group** is a worldwide leader in the design, engineering and manufacturing of acoustic and thermal components and systems for the automotive sector. With more than 15,000 employees and approximately 100 manufacturing and R&D facilities, we deliver to all major car brands globally. **Description**: He/She is in charge of the Group Costing methodology for quotations of our new business acquisitions. The Costing dept must build the bridge between the actual costs and future costs of our facilities. His/Her main missions are to ensure the update of the Costing database and methodology but also to improve our Costing methodology in order to support our business closely and to support our plants to use better their ERP for Costing, transfer price calculation & cost control. **The main missions are**: 1/ Costing methodology - Define & update the costing methodology to be used worldwide. - Support any Regions for Costing process. - Ensure the technical data collection - Update all technical and economic databases for Costing methodology. - New tools to be implemented: costing for parts bought from external suppliers. - Improve the Costing for Semi Finished Product plants. - Overheads and costing parameters calculations (once a year) based on plant data. - Improve the system => Costing must be performed with ERP not on Excel basis: process, training, checks,... - Check the consistency between the plant costing parameters and Costing parameters for acquisition. - Collaborate with project managers and engineers to develop accurate project cost estimation, including labor, materials, equipment, and other project-related expenses. **2/ Transfer Price (Budget & Actual)** - Provide transfer pricing support for the company's global operations, including developing transfer pricing policies, performing transfer pricing analyses, and ensuring compliance with transfer pricing regulations. - Keep up to date with changes in transfer pricing regulations and standards and provide recommendations for compliance improvements. - Ensures the right balance between sellers & buyers for Budget assumptions. **3/ Actual costing in ERP** - Costing dept ensures that our plants use their ERP (mainly SAP) to calculate their current costing: to write procedures, to train teams, validate actual costing parameters, etc. - Validate the inventory valuation methodology in accordance with APG rules + local rules. - Collaborate with ERP team to ensure accurate and timely recording of costs and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the actual costing process. **4/ Serial Product Margin follow up (each quarter)** - Supports plants to calculate their margin per product each quarter, support of ERP, costs allocation, etc. - Consolidates, analyzes and challenges the data in order to protect our margins. - Follow-up on serial product margins each quarter to ensure accuracy and identify areas for improvement. **5/ Tooling report** - The costing dept could be a backup for tooling reports. **Qualifications**: - Engineer, industrial engineer, business economist (master’s degree or equivalent) or a comparable qualification - Well-founded, minimum 8/10 years’ experience of professional experience in costing, production, manufacturing engineering, etc.in automotive market - Technical products oriented and strong understanding of economic and technical interrelationships - SAP and Excel knowledge - Ability to improve systems, processes, to train and coach people. - Demonstrated strong communication skills, analytical and synthesis skills. - English fluent, German and/or Italian appreciated. - Willingness to travel