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24-7 are the UK’s leading specialist provider of Transport, Logistics and Warehouse employment to a range of leading Blue Chip clients throughout the UK. Our expertise is sourcing, supplying and placing both contract, temporary and permanent workers into warehouse, production and logistics positions.
Job Description
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Cost Estimator Team Leader for a Banbury based Automotive company, OX162SP
As a Senior Cost Estimator Team Leader, you will be:
- Working with customer account managers to support the quoting and costing activities for new and existing programs
- Able to assess manufacturing processes and understand and be able to define the cost drivers
- Assist in driving the production of appropriate data to ensure that all enquiries are managed efficiently and within agreed timescales
- Understand and comply with Customer Specific Requirements (including VDA, Formel Q, JLRQ, Nissan, PSA, Opel Vauxhall BIQS, etc.)
- Liaise closely with all Operational Departments and Purchasing to obtain the correct input data required for all quotation packs
- Ability to interpret product concept sheets and complex BOM's
- To be able to complete the companies costing model to develop business cases to be presented and approved through the quote approval process
- Provide support to the customer account managers on commercial issues
- Be the team leader for the department, and the Commercial Manger UK's deputy, for the division
- Track and record the data for measuring departmental KOI's
- To support the Commercial Manager UK, acting as his representative in internal and external meetings as required
To be considered for the position of Cost Estimator you will require:
- 3 to 5 year's experience working within manufacturing in a cost estimator, cost analyst role, ideally in the automotive sector
- Must have a good understanding of absorption and activity-based costing
- Good Commercial background with experience of dealing with OEM's
- Problem identification and resolution skills
- Intermediate or advanced user of Excel and Power point required
As a Senior Cost Estimator your working hours will be: Monday - Thursday 08.00 - 16.30 / Friday 08.00 - 1.30pm
Please click apply or call the team on 07842 228065 to be considered for our Cost Estimator position
