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In this role, you will develop calculation methods, review and update price calculations for configurable machinery, and support departments in cost transparency and SAP processes.
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Your role in the team
- In this role, you ensure consistent, transparent, and robust cost calculations.
- You oversee SAP- and BI-supported costing processes, further develop methods and standards, and make cost drivers transparent to Controlling, management, and the departments involved.
- A key focus of the costing is on configurable machines and systems across multiple locations.
- Calculation and Methodology
- You prepare and review preliminary, standard, post-calculation, and quotation costings for individual parts, assemblies, machines, and systems.
- You further develop calculation methods, parameters, guidelines, documentation, and quality checks, ensuring consistent standards.
- You analyze plan-versus-actual variances as well as cost and margin risks, and derive concrete improvement measures.
- You manage costing using SAP, support standard costing processes, and review standard prices and costing parameters.
- You systematically analyze costing variances and provide subject-matter support for SAP adjustments, testing, and the documentation of changed processes.
- You support the departments involved with questions about costing and master data.
- Configurable machines and price lists
- You will further develop the costing of customer- and feature-specific machine configurations and ensure that configuration, bill of materials, routing, and costing work together seamlessly.
- You prepare and update calculations for price lists and coordinate input from Engineering, Purchasing, Assembly, and Sales.
- You assess cost changes, make their impact on prices and margins transparent, and systematically derive measures.
- Consulting and cross-location collaboration
- You advise Controlling, management, and business units on cost drivers, costing assumptions, and cost-effective alternatives.
- You contribute to make-or-buy analyses and cost comparisons of manufacturing, procurement, and process alternatives.
- You harmonize methods and data and provide subject-matter support for group-wide cost calculation analyses.
- You will contribute to the further development of ETL pipelines and the creation of dashboards.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Completed degree in a technical or business-related field, or equivalent vocational training, with extensive experience in cost calculation
Qualifications
- Confident handling of bills of materials, routings, and multi-level product structures, as well as an understanding of material, manufacturing, assembly, and overhead costs
- Confident use of Excel and the ability to present complex cost structures in an understandable way
- Expertise in configurable products and SAP Variant Configuration
- Very good German skills and good English skills for cross-location collaboration
Experience
- Several years of hands-on experience in industrial product, machinery, or project costing
- Very good knowledge of SAP costing and experience with standard, preliminary, post, or quotation costing
- Experience in mechanical or plant engineering, or in a comparable environment with complex product structures
- Experience with price list calculations, plan-versus-actual analyses, Qlik Sense, or comparable BI applications
What we offer
- Responsible and varied tasks at the intersection of cost calculation, SAP, and industrial value creation
- A high degree of professional autonomy and scope to shape methods and processes
- Perspective: Working for the technology leader means a high degree of personal responsibility and challenging tasks with plenty of scope to shape things in a technical environment
- Atmosphere: thorough onboarding and an appreciative, professional environment with in-depth collaboration and short lines of communication, thanks to direct, open communication with management and all employees across the company
- Benefits: attractive compensation including social benefits, flexible working hours, company parking with EV charging facilities, central location in Heilbronn with good road connections, discounted meals in the company restaurant
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About your employer
ILLIG packaging solutions GmbH is a globally operating company that provides machines and solutions for the production of sustainable and recyclable packaging made from plastic and fiber. Based in Heilbronn, Germany, the company supports its customers from packaging development to the implementation of industrial manufacturing solutions.
- Established Company
- Onsite
- Industry, Production
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