Costing & Pricing Specialist
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Country: Belgium (BE)
City: Oudsbergen
Worksite / Location: Lummen
Job Function: CFO_Costing & Pricing
Job Discipline:
Job Family: General Costing & Pricing
At Yazaki, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for everyone, which extends to all aspects of the employment relationship.
Our EMEA Headquarters in Lummen plays a central role in managing a regional organization of over 47,000 employees and more than €3 billion in annual sales. From Lummen, we coordinate complex operations across EMEA and ensure that customers receive the dependable support, responsiveness, and long-term value they expect from Yazaki.
What truly sets us apart is our commitment to people, both our customers and our teams. We work side by side with our customers to build lasting relationships and deliver solutions they can rely on throughout the lifecycle of their vehicles. Inside Yazaki, our employees are the cornerstone of our success. Their expertise, dedication, and collaboration drive our performance every day.
To strengthen our team, we are looking for a Costing & Pricing Specialist to join our YEMEA Headquarters in Lummen.
Job description:
• Perform manufacturing cost estimation and sales price proposal in accordance with calculation conditions defined by BU and OEM agreeded Standard times.
• Calculate Costing & Pricing for Engineering Changes (ECR's), cost reduction proposals (VAVE's), new drawings and price walk releases.
• Update Offer's calculation according commercial agreements (copper rate; comp. prices; productivities...).
• Track Cost Control Module prices follow up.
• Focus on profitability improvement, by performing margin improvement on cost reduction or price increase opportunities.
• Track margin improvement progress/achievement.
• Defending prices to customer.
• Component prices management (purchasing, sales price, gross margin).
• Follow up actions with Supply Management.
• Perform and promote continuous improvement activities, ensuring the progress related to speed, accuracy and efficiency of the department outputs.
• Encourage errors registration, following PDCA process and the promotion of lessons learned between the team.
• Support on activties' management, with the coordination and planning of the team workload VS HC, in accordance with the department goals and CSC's needs.
• Takes part in the Quality Management Activities.
• Collaborates in internal audits when requested.
• Reports all claims that may be received by other means than the CRS system to the Quality Department and its Responsible.
• Participates on Customer claim investigation and treatment.
• Implements corrective and preventive actions and also confirms B113its efficiency.
• Informs the Customer on how and where a claim should be filed.Keeps the Customer informed about the on going claim.
• Manages all claims according to their urgency and severity.
• Treats Customer with courtesy.
• Commitment to the Organization's Management, Quality and AS&S Systems.
Your profile:
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance or Engineering.
• Experience in performing similar tasks in large companies, preferably in multinationals.
• Product and production process knowledge.
• Understanding of the manufacturing process, supply chain, equipments needed, design processes, KSK concept, etc.
• Understanding key business drivers and uses this understanding to accomplish own work.
• Be able to fully understand the relevance of the KPI's and proactively contribute for the business profitability.
• Impact quality of own work and the work of others on the team, works within guidelines and policies.
• Explain complex information to others in straightforward situations.
• Solving problems in straightforward situations, analyzing possible solutions using technical experience.
• Good spoken and written knowledge of English.
• Good know-how on Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Teams, Outlook…
Last but not least we offer an engaging and supportive work environment where your contributions make a real impact. Herewith an overview of what we offer:
• 1 day remote working per week.
• 17,5 additional leave days (ADV days).
• Flexible working hours: start between 7:00 - 10:00, finish from 15:00 onward.
• Hospitalization insurance: employee contribution of EUR 2,50/month, with coverage available for the whole family.
• Group insurance: 3% employer contributions, no employee contribution required.
• Company laptop
• Cafeteria plan: tailor your benefits (bike lease, multimedia, and many more)
We are looking forward to receiving your application and getting to know you. Please apply by clicking the 'Apply Now' button. We wish you all the success in your application!
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