Cost Manager

A Snapshot of Your Day

We are looking for a Cost Manager to join our Offshore Sales department, where you will be working on Sales projects for the world leaders in Offshore Wind. You will be a core sales team member; a team that is a multidisciplinary and intercultural expert function with interfaces across international borders. Your main stakeholders are: Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Service, Operations, Hub Management, Sales Project Management, Sales Solutions, PPM.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• You are responsible for the offer sales calculation for international investment projects with the contract volume of 300 Million – 3000 Million EUR.
• You are a core sales team member; a multidisciplinary and intercultural expert function with interfaces across international borders; your main stakeholders are: Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Service, Operations, Hub Management, Sales Project Management, Sales Solutions, PPM.
• Ensure cost comparison and explanation on cost deltas for different project scopes and during project phases (e.g. SBA calculation vs As Sold calculation vs OIC)
• You are responsible for a timely calculation completeness and adherence to cost approval process with input functions; you ensure and support commercial commitment (sign-off) by executing function of costs
• Ensure the basis for cash flow planning and the hedging strategy which includes the calculation of the project specific Cash Flow profile, the request of currency rates/hedging cost and the evaluation of project specific currency baskets
• You are responsible for transparency on, comparability of, and adherence to pre-agreed cost improvement measure as basis for approvals (“Profit / GM bridge”)
• You ensure the overview on offer costing with the aim of achieving increased cost transparency via the identification of main cost drivers and KPIs and by that contributing to competitive cost solutions
• Drive, together with the assigned sales team, the successful Target Costing execution through benchmarks, cross project comparisons, cost input analysis based on KPIs.
• Leading the yearly cost update validation across departments and participate in knowledge sharing, feedback loop and development of the calculation tools.
  
  
  

What You Bring

• Commercial knowledge related to KPI’s, SGRE processes, reporting and value flows
• Experience in Project Cost and Warranty calculation is preferred
• Experience in project team management and working with different international stakeholders within an intercultural working environment
• Teamwork and intercultural experience, strong communication skills
• Strong degree of entrepreneurial spirit and passion to the field of responsibility
• Fluent English is essential; German and/or any other languages are of course welcome
• Flexibility to travel
• Important capabilities: self-determination, take own-initiative, business competence, communication skills, create network built on trust, analytical skills, result and quality orientation, customer focus (external/internal), professional ethics.
  
  
  

About The Team

Wind Power division is part of Siemens Energy, a global leader in energy technology with a rich legacy of innovation spanning over 150 years. Together, we are committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. As a leading player in the wind industry and manufacturer of wind turbines, we are passionate about driving the energy transition and providing innovative solutions that meet the growing energy demand of the global community.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our cross-border team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

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Rewards/Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working environment (office and/or home).
• Flexible work schedules guarantee a good work life balance.
• Continuous professional and personal development opportunities.
• Be in an international and open-minded team.
• Reasonable training plan for the starting period.