Cost Data Manager handling and improving aircraft cost data for electric aviation startup. Collaborate across multiple teams to ensure data accuracy and reporting.
Responsibilities
Own and maintain the Costed Bill of Materials (CBOM), ensuring data accuracy, structure, and traceability.
Process and reconcile large volumes of supplier and cost data with consistency and discipline.
Build and maintain structured cost models for aircraft systems and assemblies
Identify data inconsistencies, gaps, and inefficiencies - and proactively fix them.
Provide clear, numerically robust reporting to support sourcing and design decisions.
Analyse cost drivers and trends across multi-level BOM structures and work packages
Communicate cost analysis and data with technical and non-technical teams
Improve how cost data flows between Engineering, ERP, and commercial systems.
Support make-vs-buy and sourcing decisions with structured data insight.
Continuously refine and streamline BOM and cost reporting processes.
Requirements
Circa 3–7 years’ experience in a data or analytical, numerically rigorous role.
Demonstrable experience managing complex or structured datasets - preferably within a Product or multi-level Bills of Materials role, although this is not mandatory
Strong Excel and data manipulation capability (comfortable handling large datasets).
Strong communication skills with the ability to distil and articulate complex cost analysis
Comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving environments.
Proactive mindset - you improve broken processes rather than work around them.
High numerical literacy and attention to detail.
Experience working in engineering, manufacturing, or product-based environments.
Benefits
26 days holiday, plus bank holiday
5 extra days per year to buy (or sell)
5 extra days holiday when you get married or enter a civil partnership
Additional 4% of your salary to spend on extra benefits
Award-winning digital health and wellbeing service (Help@Hand)
Company performance based bonus - rewarding company and individual performance
Company Share Scheme - open to every Vertical employee
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