Product Cost Specialist

If you would like to become a part of a great team with highly skilled and motivated professionals, working in an innovative and developing environment, continue reading!

Who is your future team?
Axis Sourcing team is a great contributor to our company's success and apart of establishing and developing our supplier base we also strive to keep high growth in a market with strong competition, which is why cost competitiveness and constant improvements to our purchase costs are of great importance. Your responsibility will be to ensure right costs on Axis products through finding opportunities for, and driving cost reductions from our contract manufacturers, in close collaboration with your colleagues.

What you'll do here as Product Cost Specialist

You will:

* Be responsible for negotiating and approving product cost quotations from Axis contract manufacturers throughout whole product life-cycle.
* Be responsible for identifying and driving cost reduction activities towards our contract manufacturers by analyzing quotation data and having good understanding of all relevant cost drivers.
* Work in close cooperation with our contract manufacturers to achieve timely implementation of Axis negotiated component prices in product quotations.
* Analyze available component pricing data from internal and external sources and create a benchmark to be used in price reduction activities with contract manufacturers.
* Support RFQ process for new products and provide input to our product development organization regarding different cost drivers, with purpose of highlighting expensive materials or production process steps that are driving increase of product costs
* Be responsible for follow-up and optimization of different parameters affecting purchase cost of components, such as order quantities, demand changes and delivery terms.
* Identify, define, drive and lead process- and IT- tools improvements within area of responsibility, independently or in collaboration with other relevant functions.

This position is very important because you will have great opportunity to affect a big part of Axis total purchasing costs and by this, have opportunity to affect and make big difference to our business and continued success.
The position will mean some travels abroad.

Who are we looking for/Who are you?
We believe, you are analytic and well structured. You are ambitious, self-driven and very result oriented. You also like to collaborate with others and see the benefit of working towards common goals. You are open and your communication skills help you in reaching your goals.
Negotiations are a piece of cake for you, and you enjoy the discussions with our manufacturers and other collaboration partners.

We'd love to hear that you have:

* A degree in Industrial Economy, Business, Supply Chain Management or similar.
* Minimum 2 years of supply chain/sourcing experience from international manufacturing companies
* Experience from analyzing big amounts of data
* Excellent MS Office skills
* Excellent skills in English, both orally and in writing

It´s good if you have experience from working in ERP systems and if you have knowledge about business culture in different parts of the world, it will benefit you greatly in your future role

What Axis have to offer
In exchange for your dedication Axis can offer you an innovative and global organization with an environment where you can develop both as a professional and as an individual. You will have a great opportunity to make a difference to our business.

Ready to Act?
Find out more about the position from our Sourcing Manager, Nerzesa Dzinovic at +46 46 272 1800