Materials Margin Manager

Escatec Switzerland AG seeks a Senior Materials Margin Manager to safeguard financial integrity, manage CBOM accuracy, and drive gross margin optimization across global operations.

This position acts as the central authority for materials margin and the financial health of the Costed BOM. The role ensures that procurement efficiencies convert into sustainable gross margin while keeping the company competitive. It serves as the single point of commercial pricing authority across Supply Chain Management, Business Units, and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure precise accuracy for Costed BOM and Price For Customer figures.
• Guide Business Unit teams on future CBOM structuring, cost-reduction roadmaps, and material choices to boost margins before customer quotes.
• Keep quoted costs separate from actual purchasing costs to protect and expand materials margin.
• Oversee quarterly and semi-annual cost roll processes to align inventory valuation with current market conditions, avoiding outdated standards and audit risks.
• Use should-cost modeling for mechanicals, plastics, and PCBs, collaborating with CPE and CQE teams for accurate baseline costing.
• Establish and implement sell-price logic to maximize favorable Material Price Variance.
• Perform strict PPV audits to ensure procurement savings stay within the organization.
• Prevent the early transfer of supplier cost reductions to customers while ensuring immediate recovery of market cost increases.
• Manage quarterly customer price updates to accurately recover premiums, surcharges, and raw material hikes without losing competitive edge.
• Enforce open-book versus closed-book customer rules to protect internal markup logic and avoid commercial disadvantages from over-disclosure.
• Provide forward-looking profitability insights to Business Unit Managers to steer commercial decisions away from margin-dilutive pricing.
• Support the RFQ process to ensure winning bids have expandable margin potential from the start.

Requirements

• 8 to 12 years of progressive experience in a Tier-1 or Tier-2 Electronic Manufacturing Services environment.
• Strong financial understanding of P&L mechanics, gross margin generation, and inventory valuation.
• Expert proficiency in ERP costing and purchasing modules, specifically SAP or INFOR.
• Excellent negotiation skills with the authority to influence cross-functional pricing strategies.
• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.

About the company

Escatec Switzerland AG designs and manufactures high-grade electronics and electro-mechanical solutions for disruptive Industrial, Medical, and Transportation OEMs. The company values creativity, collaboration, and excellence.

• Focus on creativity, collaboration, and excellence.
• Specializes in high-grade electronics and electro-mechanical solutions for Industrial, Medical, and Transportation sectors.