Cost Planning Analyst - Southfield, MI

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Job Summary: 
As a Cost Planning Analyst, the most important thing is to maximize profits. To do that, you will oversee project costs, and lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance product performance and profitability. Your responsibilities will include managing product life cycles, coordinating production and logistics strategies, and driving new business development. 

You will play a critical role in developing and executing long-term business plans, aligning with DENSO’s Global Headquarter goals, and presenting data-driven proposals to senior leadership. To adjust market changes or political issues quickly, sometimes you will make short-term strategy for tariff or semi-conductor shortage. Also, you will evaluate market and competitor data to get new business.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Plan product specifications and pricing, and coordinate actions for effective execution collaborating with business units and each function like sales, purchasing dept. and technical center. 
• Monitor, analyze, and forecast project costs, including labor and materials, ensuring that project budgets align with company objectives. 
• Identify, prioritize, and develop plans for product and service improvements, including resource allocation, budget creation. 
• Actively engage with manufacturing strategies by managing end of product life cycles, assess demand and capacity, analyze costs for in-house vs. outsourcing and identify best production site of new products. 
• Improve product profitability short-term market trend 
• Initiate new business strategies, sales expansion, and mid/long-term structural improvement through Analyze market and competitor data with sales, and technical center.