Target Cost Analyst - Loader Cranes (f/m/d)

For more than 90 years, PALFINGER has set benchmarks with innovative crane and lifting solutions worldwide. As a leading technology and mechanical engineering company, we transform customer needs into seamlessly integrated solutions while providing opportunities for our people to grow, collaborate, and push beyond limits. We foster an environment where we reach up, reach out, and reach beyond. Become part of our team and let’s lift each other to create what’s next.

Our Target Costing team supports development and existing product projects with the clear goal of creating cost transparency, achieving target costs, and bringing successful products to market.

As a Target Costing Analyst – Loader Cranes (m/f/d), you will support several development and cost-down projects end-to-end. You will analyse cost structures, identify cost drivers, and work with cross-functional teams to develop specific cost-down measures. In addition to operational project work, you will actively contribute to the further development of standards, methods, and processes in Target Costing in order to continuously increase the efficiency, comparability, and impact of our contribution.

The clear focus of the role is on cost analysis and understanding how costs arise – communication and collaboration are the means to enable effective decision-making.

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Your Responsibilities

• Analyse cost structures and identify cost drivers across multiple product lines
• Support development and industrialisation projects as a cost challenger and sparring partner
• Derive and implement specific cost-down potential to achieve target costs
• Work closely with Engineering, Purchasing, Production, Quality, and Product Management
• Prepare cost analyses and reports, and further develop Target Costing standards and methods

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Your Qualifications

• Completed technical or technical-commercial education (technical college, university of applied sciences, or university), e.g. in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or Industrial Engineering
• Strong understanding of cost structures, costing methodologies, and data-driven analyses, or at least 3 years of professional experience in similar positions
• An analytical, structured, and solution-oriented approach to work
• Experience working with Engineering, Purchasing, or Production
• Very good German and English language skills, as well as confident use of SAP, Excel, or Power BI

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What We Offer

• Flexible working hours with no core time and possibility to work from home
• Further training and international career opportunities
• Corporate health management "PALfit"
• Company restaurant with freshly prepared meals and daily meal subsidy
• Job ticket for travel to and from PALFINGER
• Numerous employee discounts through Corporate Benefits

Minimum yearly gross salary according to Austrian metal industry collective agreement is EUR 53.241,02 based on full-time employment. According to experience and qualification, we offer a market-conform overpayment.

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