McLaren

You will help to develop the function to grow in alignment with the growth and rapidly changing McLaren business by introducing tools, templates and expertise that ensure optimal cost benchmarks are an effective tool in the negotiation with sourcing suppliers.

You will be part of the sourcing and negotiation team, participating in front-line technical negotiations & internal reporting, being responsible for a set of commodities and accountable for the deliverables for a set of suppliers.

• Support the business delivering detailed cost targets for sourcing strategy on future programs, as well as supporting on-going negotiations on current production vehicles, identifying key cost drivers and prioritising key discussion point with suppliers.
• Mandatory knowledge of creating cost estimates from base, without the aid of proprietary calculation software, having a scientific and demonstrable approach to the costing methodology assumptions.
• Support ad-hoc requests for cost breakdown verification and high-level costing for engineering changes.
• Lead categorising suppliers in the business by creating a map of supplier capabilities and capacities to ensure sourcing is done on Best-In-Class industry actors.
• Ensure productivity targets are defined with incumbent suppliers and negotiate along with the commodity team to guarantee its delivery.
• Lead lean manufacturing and productivity optimisation studies; resulting in actions to guarantee incumbent suppliers adhere to best manufacturing practises and process flow.
• Maintain and improve upon internal databases for materials, labour & facilities, tracking economic changes over time, ensuring up to date market data with verifiable sources.
• Develop and improve upon internally created tools and calculation templates to ensure consistency on the delivered estimates and guarantee continuity of costing practises.
• Create and present training material on manufacturing processes and commodities for new cost engineers, buyers and any other stakeholders involved.

• Carbon fibre composites experience preferred but not essential.
• Ability to work in highly competitive and driven environment.
• Have a structured approach and organised mindset to problem resolution.
• Comprehension of engineering designs and supplier quotations, being able to deduce misalignment on manufacturing processes and inconsistencies with market data.
• Proficiency using CAD system’s visualisation software, identifying component materials, GD&T dimensional tolerances and be able to infer manufacturing process flow.
• Tailor costing assumptions based on low-volume scenarios, highly specialised manufacturing and limited industry participants.
• Ability to create side-by-side quotation comparisons and waterfalls, identifying key cost drivers, explaining cost gaps and prioritising areas of focus during supplier negotiations.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, with emphasis on datasets and calculation templates (Excel) & creating clear and visual reports to guide business stakeholders with punctual results (PowerPoint).