Cost Analyst (Based in Malaysia, 1 year WFH contract)
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Responsibilities:
- Accountable for delivering competitive material pricing solutions to support growth and margins as per company objectives.
- Collaborate with global customer unit, customer, program management, business proposal lead, finance, and/or sales to determine material pricing strategy.
- Align on trade-offs between proposal cycle-time, solution precision, and scope with clients to deliver an agreed to price strategy.
- Project manage supply chain solutions with commodity management, costing teams, and engineering teams to deliver desired pricing and margin solutions.
- Prepares material pricing solutions for new business opportunities (bids) and manages ongoing pricing through the lifecycle of the product (re-pricing) including generation of Bill of Material, cost competitive analysis, and margin recommendations.
- Provide insight and recommendations to support external (customers or suppliers) negotiations.
- Presents proposed solution to key stakeholders.
- Perform take-down trends analysis and modeling to leverage insight in service requests.
- Conduct market research and generate product teardowns to enable competitiveness assessments in service requests.
- Proactively drive continuous improvement in margin expansion, cycle time, pricing competitiveness, pricing tactics, and process efficiency.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Graduate's Degree in relevant fields of Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 3 years (preferably 5 years) of working experience in the EMS or an MNC environment.
- Experienced in cost analysis skills, knowledge in material pricing and strategy.
- Good supply base knowledge of mechanical, electro-mechanical commodities such as plastic /Cables, connectors, modules, PCBs, etc.
- Proven experience in successful VA/VE proposals.
- Knowledge in SAP is an added advantage.
- Familiarity of Microsoft office is a pre-requisite.
Interested candidates are to submit a detailed resume to speed up the application process. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. Thank you for applying.