Product Management & Costing- Sr. Manager/DGM

Business Unit

Auto and Special Application

Department

Product Management & Costing

Location

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience

13-18 years, with 4+ years in a managerial/leadership role

Qualification

B.E./B.Tech(Mechanical/Automobile/Production); MBA in Finance or Marketing preferred

Job Purpose

To lead product management and product costing for the Auto and Special Application Business Unit driving profitable product portfolio decisions, robust cost structures, and competitive pricing strategies. The role owns the interface between engineering, sales, sourcing and finance to ensure current and existing products meet margin, quality and market-fit objectives across automotive OEM and special/industrial application segments.

Key Responsibilities
- Product Strategy & Portfolio Management

Define and drive the product roadmap for the Auto and Special application business unit in line with automotive and special application market trends, customer requirements and business growth targets.





Conduct portfolio analysis (product lifecycle, profitability, market share) and recommend additions, rationalization or repositioning of products.

Partner with Sales, Marketing and R&D; to identify new product opportunities, platform extensions and value-engineering initiatives.
- Product Costing & Margin Management

Own end-to-end product costing (raw material, process, conversion, overheads) for new product development (NPD) and existing SKUs.

Build and maintain should-cost models and standard costing sheets; benchmark against competitor and industry cost structures.

Drive cost-reduction and value-engineering/value-analysis (VE/VA) programs in coordination with Sourcing, Manufacturing and Design teams.

Support pricing strategy and quotations for OEM/customer RFQs with accurate costing and margin analysis.
- Cross-Functional Coordination

Act as the key interface between Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Sourcing and Sales

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