Lead - Product Costing New Programs

you’ll be our: Lead - New Programs Costing & Budgeting

you’ll be based at: IBC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru

you’ll be Aligned with: Head - Product Costing & Budgeting

you’ll be the member of: Costing & Budgeting – Team

What you’ll do at Ather:

• Lead New Program Costing and Budgeting Activities

• Identify cost reduction/optimization opportunities across all cost drivers that add to the gross margin (part cost, assembly cost, logistics cost, packaging cost and so on)

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, Product , Finance) to integrate cost considerations into the product development lifecycle.

• Perform detailed cost analysis on new designs, identifying key cost drivers while maintaining a Design to Cost approach and facilitate trade-off decisions to optimize product cost.

• Assess and influence design decisions across teams to optimize the bill of materials (BOM) cost for new, redesigned, or conceptual parts and assemblies.

• Develop and implement cost targets for new programs.

• Prepare budgets for NPD program costs (Capex,Opex)

• Monitor and track product costs throughout the development process and report on variances.

• Apply first principles thinking in all cross-functional financial decisions and activities

Here’s what we are looking for: 

• • BE Mechanical/Electrical/Mechatronics with 10-15 years of experience in product companies and adept in agile way of working.

  • Good understanding of manufacturing processes like casting, machining, forging, injection moulding, sheet metal operations, fabrication, compression moulding, coating, welding etc

  • Basic understanding of electronics and electrical systems and their functions 

  • Exposure to PCBA and wire harness manufacturing process and should costing is a plus

  • Well versed with product development process/lifecycle in a hardware company and involvement of commercial decision-making in every step

  • Adept at should costing/zero based costing - ability to prepare detailed costing for a part/assembly

  • BOM preparation and understanding of EBOM or MBOM

  • Ability to financially assess projects and activities in swim lanes (cross functions) and be the Finance vertical representative in swim lanes

  • Experience in zero based budgeting for NPD program costs (Capex,Opex)

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

  • Ability to work in an agile environment.