Cost Manager - Toronto, Canada - ALSTOM

ALSTOM

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Req ID:448637

Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation.

Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions.

Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide.

Imagine playing a central role in reducing the carbon footprint of Canada's busiest public transit system and doing so with a consistently ranked Top Employer with a global reach.

As part of the ONxpress consortium, Alstom is proudly working to transform the collective mobility of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas (GTHA) through the On-Corridor Works project, and we are hiring for hundreds of roles.

The GO Expansion scope:

new electric locomotives, fleet upgrades, train control systems, network electrification, signalling, telecommunications and digital systems, maintenance, and much more.

This role is a fixed term contract until December 2024.

Objective

Prepare, lead and manage cost planning, control, pricing aspects of a tender and project. Leading on setting up cost control processes and procedures to support tendering and cost control activities. Support the project and bid team on all financial aspects.
Undertake benchmarking exercise for internal evaluation plus to demonstrate value for money to the client
Support project management and bid team by developing, controlling, planning and forecasting budgets and manage, consolidate and control cost on system and subsystem level.
To support the Project Team on costing management and control throughout the project life cycle.
To support setting up, developing and maintaining Earned Value (EV) Systems aligned with cost control and management systems such as Work Pack Management (WPM).
Lead cost estimation activities on project and programme level.
Lead on identifying cost savings and revenue enhancing initiatives.

Responsibilities

Prepare costing during pretendering phase, based on product cost database and return of experience from project execution
Undertake benchmarking exercises based on REX from comparable projects
Lead on pricing up variation orders
Support the Bid manager in the preparation price submissions for various projects and work packages
Define the cost structure for the bid according to RFP (terms and conditions, etc), sales requirements, etc
Define target cost per activities and/or sub system in coordination with subsystem managers, identify and propose gaps versus Reference Solution
Lead cost estimation activities based on target cost approach with all participating units and métiers
Support Cost Management, Planning and Control activities on the project/programme
Lead cost improvement actions to reach tender cost /target price using all competitiveness levers, and challenge the contributors where appropriate
Work with Finance Department to optimize Financial costs (bonds, financing, hedging, insurance, taxes, etc), and to improve overall competitiveness of the bid
Consolidate tender costs commitment and selling price as per financial rules and in the consolidation tool (Mercury/2.1/ or Ody.

Control the level of robustness of the costing (consistency between scope of work, costing received and planning), and use the Costing robustness assessment grid
Support proactively the project teams and tender team/discipline leads during the tender validation process
Prepare the Costing package for TRM (Tender Review Meeting) (cost analysis/bridges, standard report, cash curve, etc), and support the tender leader on the preparation of the pricing sheet for the customer
Lead cost estimation activities, in coordination with subsystem manager, for changes discussed with the customer during negotiation phase and update the cost commitment
Transfer tender costing data (with related assumptions) to Project (TTM / Tender Transfer Meeting) + variance analysis (from TRM/ Tender Review Meeting >TTM/ Tender Transfer Meeting)
Support on demand the Project team on costing for variation orders
Prepare, produce, lead and manage the cost estimations for VO (Variation Order) and NAVO (Non-Agreed Variation Order) within the Project team, with the support of the Finance Project Manager for financial offer
For all the transversal activities at programme/syste level:
Collect and monitor cost reduction initiatives with the support of the related Métier: ideas collection, preliminary studies, action plan follow-up, risk & savings register update
Coordinate costing analysis during design phase with the support of the related stakeholders, for the activities impacting several Métiers (ex: budget versus savings analysis)
Build comparisons on different solutions and support Make o