Hybrid Cost Data Manager

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About the role

  • 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
  • Company Pension Scheme - 5% and we match it
  • Breakfast on us, every day

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Cost Data Manager

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