Partner Cost Manager
Responsibilities
The Partner Cost Manager is responsible for end-to-end cost management across manufacturing partners, encompassing quotation validation, pricing negotiation, cost structure optimization, and profitability assurance. This role serves as a strategic cross-functional liaison—collaborating closely with Engineering, Finance, IE, Program Management, and Contract Manufacturers (CMs)—to ensure seamless capacity ramp-up, operational excellence, transparent CM cost reporting, and disciplined profitability control.
- Create short-term (quarterly) and long-term (annual/3-year) capacity plans, including resource allocation, scaling strategies), turn Capacity plan to Capex plan and align with Finance on execution
- Prepare and present capacity reports, insights into the management team to support data-driven decision-making
- Weekly capacity dashboard review, capacity progress update, gap analysis and coordination with multiple teams
- CM spending, Yield/Scrap and transformation cost on a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis tracking and analytical
- Daily CM offline spending quotation reviewing, price/cost comparison, cost database build, purchase requisition submission
- Makes plan and works with team to collect and drive cost reduction projects in a quarterly basis, including but not limited to Consumable/HPU/FA/test/service/scrap cost analysis and cost down actions
- Work with Finance for monthly open PO updates, quarterly settlement and yearly spending forecast
- Supporting the Manager in CM Transformation cost management, quarterly summary report
Qualifications
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