Consultant, Category Cost Down

Your impact? By combining technical teardown, should-costing, and market intelligence, you’ll help Procurement teams identify, validate, and deliver cost-down opportunities that improve both business performance and supplier collaboration. You’ll also contribute to decarbonization initiatives, ensuring that cost leadership goes hand in hand with sustainable practices.

You’ll collaborate closely with Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, teams and take ownership of structured cost-down activities, helping us move toward a more efficient, innovative, and sustainable future.

• Lead teardowns, reverse engineering, and BOM generation for purchased electromechanical components to identify cost-down opportunities
• Prepare and review should-cost analysis and deliver validated opportunities to Category/BU Procurement for implementation
• Track, govern, and follow up on cost-down initiatives to ensure adoption, feedback, and continuous improvement
• Grow and maintain the cost-down pipeline, identifying new opportunities and contributing to both existing and new product cost-down projects
• Apply market intelligence and industry best practices to strengthen the robustness of cost analysis and decision-making

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Electronics Engineerin
• 5–8 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, with proven track record in cost analysis of electromechanical components (transformers, chokes, filters, wiring harnesses, fans, PCB/A, connectors
• Strong ability to interpret engineering drawings and GD&T, and perform teardown/reverse engineering
  Experience with should-costing tools such as aPriori, TCPCM, or similar system
• Proven ability to deliver cost savings through product cost management principles
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, with experience in global and interdisciplinary environment
• Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple complex projects independently, while contributing to a One Danfoss mindset.