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Your role
Vanderlande is a strong growing company thanks to bid wins at our customers with our products solutions and services. As part of the Strategic Costing & Verification team you own the methodology for the cost calculation process used for our customer bids. These bids easily exceed 50M EUR and are often a multiple of that! As a Costing Consultant you will work on the tools and content that are needed to prepare these bids you will ensure that the cost data in our calculation system (CAP for project pricing tool and SCCT for service contract pricing) is adequate and accurate and you will support the Sales Teams in preparing these bids. Together with our Business Unit stakeholders you will prepare overviews of our costs our cost structure and drive initiatives for further improvements and the completeness of our cost models.
Your tasks and responsibilities
You will work as a Costing Consultant which offers you various tasks supporting and coordinating with different departments a.o. the Business Units and our international Customer Centres Supply Chain organization (including procurement and manufacturing) Technology organization (R&D) etc.
Your focus will be on:
Performing standard checks on the costing/pricing calculation files for approvals and guiding stakeholders on preparing official costing/pricing documents where .
Setting up reference projects for cost monitoring and benchmarking purposes.
Conversion with explanation of old project cost calculation file to current file reflecting cost updates.
Securing the data used in the costing tools is complete accurate uptodate.
Supporting in data analysis to improve our cost tool as well as the values used in the tools.
Support coaching and training the Business users in making detailed cost calculations.
Supporting DfX programs to improve product costs.
Participate in defining cost models for newly developed products and services.
Maintaining uptodate knowledge on upcoming product changes and assess impact on costs and the cost modelling thereof.
Analysing equipment or category costs across customer projects prepare standard reports.
Contribute to continuous improvement programs.
Your department
The Strategic Costing & Verification department in India reports directly to the Strategic Costing & Verification department in The Netherlands with strong connection to Voice management.
There is strong cooperation with various departments within Vanderlande (sales engineering cost engineering sourcing R&D engineering etc).
Your profile
For this position we ask you to have:
A bachelors degree in a technical field of study (e.g. Mechanical/ electrical/controls);
Advanced computer Excel/database/analytic skills.
5 to 7 years of business experience preferably in an international Material Handling automation company.
Commercial and international affinity
Excellent communication and presentation skills both verbal and written.
Fluency in English as well as a strong cultural awareness.
Required Experience:
Contract
Full-Time