COST ESTIMATOR

MISSION

- Develop accurate, data-driven cost assessments that strengthen sourcing decisions, improve negotiation leverage, and ensure competitive total cost of ownership for the organization. This position serves as a technical and financial bridge between suppliers, engineering, program teams and commodity buyers
- Create and implement benchmark strategies for the region
- Develop in depth knowledge of their commodity’s market and cost structure
- Negotiate & establish long-term contracts with suppliers
- Support Sales and project teams to have most cost-effective solutions to gain business
- Deliver yearly objectives within given timeline
- Support Cross functional teams (Supply chain, Program buyer, Supplier quality, Project, finance)
- Strength our savings tracking database using existing and new tools
- Improve and promote the use of the cost estimation tool

RESPONSABILITIES

Build and Maintain Robust Cost Models

- Develop, validate, and continuously update cost models for purchased components — including materials, process parameters, cycle times, labor, overheads, and SG&A; — to ensure transparent and fact-based cost structures.

Analyze Supplier Cost Breakdowns
- Evaluate supplier cost breakdowns to confirm alignment with market benchmarks, identify discrepancies, and detect opportunities for cost improvement or risk exposure.
- Ensure that contractual conditions and group procedures are well applied and respected by suppliers as well by project teams
- Support group objectives in terms of savings and cash flow improvement

Support Negotiations With Fact-Based Insights
- Provide commodity buyers with precise cost-gap analyses and “should-cost” references to strengthen negotiation strategies, enable cost avoidance, and secure savings
- Collaboration with other BG’s

Supplier management :




- Performance and scorecard follow up with suppliers (including action plan management)
- Supplier requests for change management
- Support project buyers to obtain best economic conditions
- Problem solving and looking for alternative solutions
- Supplier Sustainibility tracking

Conduct Supplier Capability & Process Assessments :
- Participate in supplier on-site evaluations with engineering and quality teams to validate assumptions related to process flow, cycle time, labor utilization, and manufacturing feasibility
- Identify cost‑reduction opportunities (VAVE, material alternatives, process optimizations, localization opportunities) and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement them.

Financial Management:
- Deliver financial objectives given (Savings, Payment terms, capex amortization)
- Negotiate supplier claims and better financial terms for OPmobiity

PROFILE

Personal Background

- Bachelor degree in purchasing or engineering
- 3-years’ experience in purchasing area (preferably in the automotive sector or electronic & electrical components related).
- English proficiency mandatory

Job Technical skill
- Having adaptability on multicultural and cross-departmental relations and team spirits
- Strong negotiator
- Strong organizational skills and prioritize tasks to meet department objectives with timely manner
- Good Understanding of financial KPIs
- Understand products development (project/program) process
- Application of Quality Standards: respect internal processes & controlled documents
- Knowledge and respect of internal deliverables for his/her function and customer specific requirements
- Understand of his activity impact on quality (components & services), and understand the risks linked to non-conformity of PO delivered components

Job Soft skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with other functional areas and suppliers
- Having innovation and openness to change
- Adaptability

📌 Purchasing Commodity Professional (México)
🏢 Opmobility
📍 México