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

📌 Purchasing Commodity Professional (México)
🏢 Opmobility
📍 México