Senior Manager, Product Cost Management

• Maintain database list by products of our price, competitor price (per select regions), our cost and multiple third party bids per product.  Work cross functionally to continual benchmarking of our price to competitors, our cost in-house versus third party.
• Work with product management to maintain a clear list of portfolio gaps and coordinate with procurement and engineering to ensure robust bids from third parties on all gaps
• Identify list of Products for execution of  teardown comparison analysis and generate ideation activities
• Facilitates and participates in discussions with all stake holders in a positive and proactive manner.
• Create project tracking tool through Asana as our central repository of cost reduction ideas and track projects from idea generation through execution

• Detail oriented and organized program manager comfortable managing cross functional stakeholders to execute complex projects on tight timelines
• Familiarity with stage gate processes and global  project management tools and Asana
• Build relationships with key stakeholders, facilitate an E2E Cost design for Product Optimization

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