- Category cost analysis, particularly construction and including equipment, spares, facilities expense, and tool installation projects.
- Price and Should Cost (cost estimate) analysis to aid in category strategy and business negotiations.
- Identify and analyze available reporting data (in source system or data warehouse) and ensure alignment to business process, data quality and requirements.
- Carry out quality assessment of data, data reports and the accompanying decisions.
- Explore opportunities to drive correlation to business problems through data analysis.
- Generate summary and specified dashboard accounts which represent operational data in brief and intelligible format, suitable for the target audience, which includes partners, management leadership, department managers and directors.
- Partner closely with Category Managers, Program Managers, and other function groups tocarry out global, and/or regional process and IT improvement projects.
identifying internal and external industry benchmarks, conduct market analysis & trends (related to analytics, commodities) to share with business partners & leadership.
identify ways in which information systems tools can be used to address problems and improve processes.
Proven track record of being structured, including:
- Managing central repository systems.
- Price/Cost tracking in areas of equipment, material, labour, rates, etc.
- Collecting and analyzing budget vs actual cost variation.
Work closely with Program and/or Category Managers in coordinating and facilitate meetings:
- providing updates on strategic projects/initiatives.
- present data, market summaries, to leadership in facilitating decision making.
- Schedule regular data and report reviews with category team and partners to get feedback and identify future needs.
- Present and explain project / category data to the category team members, drive discussion and action items related to business direction.
- Occasional travel required.
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree, or equivalent experience
- Building & Quantity Survey
- Engineering – Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical
- Related field of study
Experience: Preferred
- Min 5+ years of relevant project experience in cost management / QS / Tool Installation / pricing / category or business analytics, particularly Cleanroom/Hospital/Pharmaceutical MEP Process Utilities Systems and CSA related. Candidates are to state the past construction projects & experience they have in their CVs.
- Proficient in Microsoft applications, computer skills (data analysis, excel reports, trends, pivot tables, SQL, python, etc), experience with visualization tools (Tableau, PowerBI, etc) a plus.
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills, including using an analytic toolset and financial targets to incorporate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and benchmarking concepts.
- Experience in carrying out use of should cost (cost estimate) methodology.
- Strong communication, consulting, interpersonal, presentation, analytical skills, and attention to detail. Ability to speak Chinese, Japanese a plus.
- Experience and ability to build concise power point presentations.
