Job Description

Manufacturing Cost Performance Manager

Full Time

Derby

We have several exciting opportunities for Manufacturing Cost Performance Managers to join our team. Reporting to SVP – Product Cost, these roles will provide a unique opportunity to lead and drive a company level strategic initiative across one of our Manufacturing Business Units.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location . It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement . As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing :

Working with functions across Manufacturing Operations, Engineering, Technology and Safety plus portfolio planning - the successful candidate will define and drive cultural, process and system level initiatives to reduce cost within manufacturing.

These roles will manage a programme to transform our current state, risks and opportunities to support the overall financial plan aligned to our company level financial commitments.

In this role, you will plan, develop and implement the Cost Programme in line with business, production, and organisational priorities within a Manufacturing Business Unit, including system and process improvements , as well as:

Transform our mindset and engagement in Product Cost across the Manufacturing Business Units with varied exposure across operations and into customer areas.
Lead a cross functional team to define and recommend a package of work to deliver against the product cost goals set by the business.
Identification and exploitation of synergies across the manufacturing business that maximise our product cost financial returns.
Ownership and accountability for execution against an agreed cost programme budget across our domestic manufacturing footprint. Provides change management (within affordability) for the respective cost programme to ensure delivery of our business cost objectives .
Lead appropriate governance aligned with our operating model to ensure effective and efficient delivery of our cost programme.
Take lead responsibility for significant cost issues relevant to the Manufacturing Business Unit. Develop and recommend plans to resolve the issue and communicate status to the business.
In conjunction with Finance, maintain a cost system to monitor progress against the business financial objectives .
Approve all cost information used for financial submissions, business plans and engineering changes.
Support our strategic cost planning activity including procurement excellence, technical cost out and technology adoption that enables our long term product cost success.
Create and sustain a high performance culture linked to cost awareness and relevant cost management capabilities within the manufacturing business unit, providing coaching and guidance to front line leaders.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:

Qualified to degree level or equivalent experience within a manufacturing industry.
Demonstrable experience of leading large, cross functional teams delivering complex programmes which drive improved business profit and/or cash.
Comfortable leading a significant change programme within a business.
Financially astute and able to understand how cost levers will impact overall Manufacturing Business Unit cash & cost performance.
Commercial focussed and able to communicate confidently and influence across all levels of Operations to provide appropriate challenge on cost.
Product & process awareness within Manufacturing is essential. Technical experience would be advantageous .

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.

Job Category

Manufacturing