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Job Overview

The Should Cost Manager’s primary responsibility is to develop a robust costing methodology based on should costing principles tailored to ICT business requirements. Enabling realistic and achievable cost estimations while highlighting areas for improvement through cross-functional teamwork.

Actively contributing to implementation and continual improvement on organization of should-cost strategy.

Collaborating across different departments, consolidating cost and process information, ensuring compliance, and provides insights for increase profitability.

Your Main Tasks

• Should Cost Model development and implementation:
• Implementation and organization of should-cost model/ target cost activities with external partners for the continuous improvement of the price level and standards
• Estimate costs based on defined product basis (BOM), utilizing should cost calculation system and database.




• Maintain consistency between costing, product process definition, and support functions' inputs.
• Provide real-time updates, gap analysis, and directional cost assessments to internal customers.
• Cost Information Analysis:
• Analyse and challenge provided cost information.
• Gather and consolidate part prices, investments, and costing data for defined products and potential industrial paths.
• Provide cost information status and ongoing monitoring with detailed follow-up and traceability.
• Key function for Engineering, PM, PjM, Procurement and Plant Finance
• Work closely with product engineering during the product development phase and support analysis of component cost to help drive margin improvement.
• Participate in technical choices and hypotheses during the sourcing phase together with acquisition team.
• Support sales and purchasing in customer and external supplier negotiations (CBDs).
• Support

📌 Should Cost Manager (India)
🏢 TE Connectivity
📍 India