Director 2 Strategic Cost Management

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a multi-year cost-reduction/elimination roadmap aligned with enterprise financial targets.
• Identify high-impact cost-saving initiatives and prioritize based on ROI and risk.
• Partner with leaders across the enterprise to translate cost-optimization concepts into actionable solutions, including common technologies.
• Drive efficiency in organization structure and layers.
• Partner with Global Supply Chain to optimize supplier productivity.

Metrics & Measurement

• Provide enterprise-wide cost transparency (by function, activity, and unit cost) to enable decision making.
• Define a comprehensive set of financial and operational metrics to benchmark spend and identify opportunities for cost efficiency.
• Establish a continuous-monitoring framework to capture realized savings, track cost trends, and forecast future spend.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Serve as the primary liaison between Corporation and Sector leaders to facilitate data-driven decision-making and implement common processes and tools to track cost.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Management and a minimum of 15 years of financial leadership experience.
• Prior experience leading enterprise strategic cost management programs.
• Ability and experience in navigating cross functionally.
• Understanding of business process and systems and their impact on cost structure.
• Some travel is required (10-25%).

Preferred Qualifications

• Creative thinking to solve resource challenges for large programs or products.
• Comfortable making recommendations that have broad organizational impacts.
• Experience managing supplier relationships.