Exterior Team Leader

TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Team management and daily work oversight

· Provide line management for local engineers, including hiring support, onboarding, and career development in partnership with the Local Head of Costing.

· Identify local engineers’ technical skill gaps and coordinate their training with Subdomain Leaders.

· Foster a positive, feedback-based team culture focused on continuous improvement and aiming for excellence.

· Assign local engineers to projects, costing library and other daily tasks, ensuring optimal usage of resources and growth, with balanced, realistic workload and alignment with expertise.

· Monitor workload distribution through regular touchpoints with local engineers.

2. Opportunities management

· Act as the local Domain representative to Sales; involve local engineers in customer pitches and free acquisition work when deemed beneficial.

· Following established processes and methods, assess technical feasibility, required effort, teardown needs, and best feasible schedule within agreed response times for project and Costing Library vehicle opportunities.

· Collaborate with other Team Leaders to share resources when required, through established process and tool.

· Oversee the creation of Sales teasers requested by the Local Head of Costing.

3. Delivery excellence ownership

· Serve as Team Coordinator by following-up individually with local engineers, tracking adherence to the plan at Domain level, anticipating and resolving issues, acting as two-way liaison between the Project Manager and local engineers, and representing the Domain in cross-Domain alignments.

· Own local Domain resources consumption.

· Enforce adherence to working standards within the local team, and guide the appropriate selection between global and localized standards, depending on the work to be delivered.

· Act as first escalation point for issues, providing hands-on problem-solving support and escalate unresolved issues to the relevant stakeholders.

· Ensure high quality deliveries by conducting the quality review of every deliverable of local projects and Costing Library vehicles before client submission, following established guidelines.

· Flag to the relevant Domain or Subdomain Leader any need to adapt processes, methods, or tools locally, and engage local engineers to support the development of associated new elements.

· Deliver work in projects or Costing Library when capacity allows.

Requirements

Education and Professional Background

· Minimum bachelor’s degree in engineering.

· Minimum of 4 years of experience as a cost engineer in an industrial context or consulting context.

· A first experience in people management, with a proven ability to lead high-performing teams.

· Experience in project management appreciated.

Skills & Abilities

· Comprehensive understanding of the respective Domain - BIW, Closures, HV Battery and Exterior components in the function of Product (Technology - Stamping, Forging, Casting, Machining, Injection, Welding, Coatings, Assembly).

· Proficiency in project management tools such as ClickUp, MS Project, or equivalent.

· Proficiency in PowerPoint and advanced Excel.

· Professional level in English.

· High sense of ownership, initiative, and collaboration.

· Hands-on personality, who finds satisfaction in resolving day-to-day problems.

· Decision-making: demonstrates sound judgment, with the ability to decide independently when appropriate and escalate issues at the right time.

· Communication: communicates clearly and concisely, tailoring messages to different stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

· Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, structure work effectively, and maintain attention to detail.