Junior Design to Cost Project Manager

**Date**:Mar 6, 2025

**Location**: Peschiera del Garda, IT

**Company**:franke

**About Franke**:
We, the Franke company with its three divisions, are a world's leading supplier of products and services for domestic kitchens, the professional foodservice systems and the convenience store sector as well as for professional coffee making. With around 60 companies, we are at home on five continents. Over 8,000 employees constantly take on new perspectives to identify opportunities and turn them into inspiring, innovative solutions for tomorrow’s demands.

**About the job**:
You will support cost optimization activities through cost engineering analysis, supplier scouting, and cost reduction project management, including benchmarking activities and statistical analysis. You will belong to our global centralized Procurement team and collaborate with R&D, Operations, and Quality teams to develop efficient and scalable solutions. You will report to the Design to Cost Project Manager, located in Fabriano, Italy.

You will be part of our **Graduate and Early Career Program (GEC)**of 18 months, which enables you to:

- Deliver meaningful projects with impact on our local and global business - from the very beginning
- Own responsibilities and challenging projects for you to accelerate your professional development and personal growth
- Enjoy the opportunity to influence stakeholders, bringing strategic thinking and creativity into play to challenge the status quo, with exposure to senior leadership
- Take on more responsibility after successful completion of the program, either in your current team, or in a different function/division/location based on your performance and available opportunities

**Your tasks**:

- Generate cost reduction activities and oversee their implementation, monitoring their effectiveness and financial impact.
- Organize cost reduction workshops with cross-functional teams, contributing to idea generation and business case development.
- Support cost analysis of components and products, identifying optimization opportunities in materials, manufacturing processes, redesign, standardization, integration, and industrialization.
- Collaborate with the Procurement team to negotiate with suppliers and assess more efficient alternatives.
- Analyze cost data using tools such as Power BI, Excel, and SharePoint, creating reports and dashboards to monitor savings KPIs.
- Support the identification of new technologies to optimize the supply chain.
- Contribute to the digitalization of processes and the standardization of governance for D2C projects.

**Requirements**:

- Master's degree in Electronic (considered a plus), Industrial, Mechanical, or Management Engineering, or Economics.
- Maximum 2 years of experience in cost analysis, procurement, supply chain, or manufacturing (preferred).
- Languages: Fluent in English, both written and verbal; Italian (considered a plus).
- Strong knowledge of Excel (pivot tables, advanced formulas) and Power BI.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Basic knowledge of SAP.
- Basic knowledge of cost engineering and cost reduction methodologies.
- Goal-oriented mindset and ability to interact with various stakeholders.
- Demonstrate genuine interest in our business and eagerness to discover and learn about different functions and roles within Franke.
- Possess strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Team player and agile learner.
- Willingness to push yourself out of your comfort zone.
- Openness to travel to various Franke locations.

**What we offer you**:

- A set of challenging projects to lead with continuous exposure to senior leaders
- Access to the FRANKE ACADEMY with a broad range of trainings to improve technical as well as soft skills and general knowledge of the company and products
- Individual coaching from our coaching partner
- Individual mentoring from a senior leader
- Shadowing a senior leader
- Support from a growing international GEC community

**Contact details**:
Nadja Günthard, Global Head of Recruiting and Talent
Helen Probst, Junior Group HR Project Manager

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