Commercial (Project) Planner

Purpose:
Commercial (Project) Planner, as the counter part of Project Manager, guides the project team concerning all financial aspects. In this role the person takes the ownership for business case and leads the project team through the quotation process, calculates and updates unit product costing over the entire project lifetime (in FACTON), taking in account production, logistics and packaging costs as well as material costs, series tooling cost, project costs for all involved domains and CAPEX.
Your roles and responsibilities:
•   Calculation and update of product costs in PDP projects
•   Support in selection and optimization of production processes as an input for product cost calculation
•   Calculation of machine rates
•   Support in make or buy studies according to MAHLE guideline
•   Data preparation (product costs, investment, lifetime data) for internal approval processes
•   Updating and monitoring of product costs until SOP
•   Support change management
•   Conduct gap analysis together with plant controlling
•   Support the project team in achieving cost targets for components, processes and tools
•   Cooperate with Sales and Project Management to create Minimum Sales Price and Cost Breakdown
•   Support VA/VE activities
•   Support Project Management regarding project reviews
•   Maintain SAP project data and take care of necessary changes for PDP projects
Your skills and strenghts:
•    University degree
•    Engineering background preferred
•    Production process knowhow ( assembly or injection molding)
•    Experienced in product and project calculation

•    Knowhow in IT tools: MS Office, SAP, FACTON
•    Team player
•    Very good language skills (English)