Ford Lifecycle Cost Efficiency Analyst 

United States, Michigan, Dearborn 

226757534

What you'll do...

• Advocate Cost Culture within the company, with emphasis on the three rules of efficient costs: Don't Over Content (the vehicle), Don't Over Design (the content), and Don't Overpay (for the design)
• Leverage multiple sources of data to generate or investigate Don’t Over Design, Don’t Over Content, or Don’t Overpay opportunities
• Prepare for and support Cost Loop workshops to develop a bottom-up cost status by commodity for each control model
• Disposition material cost opportunities coming from Cost Loop workshops with the Teams of Four (To4)
• Create ad-hoc What-If Cost Studies to support strategic and tactical decision-making
• Attend and support Program forums such as the Program Steering Team (PST), Chief Program Engineering Decision Forum (CPE DF), and Finance PAT to represent the Material Cost Attribute
• Leverage Global Total Cost’s skill team departments: Benchmarking & Cost Attack, Global Vendor Tooling, Global Cost Estimating, Material Cost Data Architecture (Team Vector), Indirect Engineering, and Warranty Analytics

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Systems Engineering or related field
• 5+ years’ experience in Automotive Product Development (OEM, Tier 1 Supplier, etc.)
• Experience in analyzing Competitive Automotive Designs

Even better, you may have...

• Systems Engineering certification, Master of Science (MS) or Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Experience or certification in Systems Engineering
• Experience with Automotive financial income statements

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

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