Graduation: Data-Driven Costing Models for Vanderlande Product

Graduation Assignment: Data-Driven Costing Models for Vanderlande Product

Description of assignment

Vanderlande is a market-leading provider of logistic process automation. To deliver multi-million euro projects profitably, the Strategic Costing & Verification (SC&V) department develops and maintains pricing and costing models and tools, which are used globally to calculate and price our projects and solutions.

The world in which Vanderlande operates is changing rapidly, demanding new ways to develop and maintain data-driven costing models using our data and new data analytics-driven technologies. The assignment is to analyse and quantify our available costing data and make proposals to enable more automation in the development and maintenance of our costing models and the data used in our sales process, supporting business decisions.

Department description

The Strategic Costing & Verification (SC&V) team owns the methodology for the cost calculation process used for our customer bids. The team maintains the calculation tools and content used by our global Sales teams and ensures that the costing data in our calculation system (CAP) is adequate and accurate. Together with Business Unit stakeholders, SC&V analyzes and prepares overviews of our cost data and cost structure, and drives initiatives for further improvements, innovations, and completeness of our cost models. Adopting new data-driven costing models will significantly impact the maintenance effort and accuracy of our costing and pricing methods.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Investigate the potential for application of new data-driven costing models
• Analyse the impact on our current costing models and tooling
• Analyse the impact on our calculation methodology, process, and cost model maintenance

Your profile

• Strong analytical mindset and the ability to support work with data and business tooling
• Interest in business costing models and financials
• Desire to work in a strategic department within an international company
• Affinity with the solutions and products of Vanderlande
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to support stakeholder management
• Excellent English writing and verbal communication skills
• Mandatory enrolment in a Dutch Education System & residency in The Netherlands.

For more information, contact us by e-mail: internship@vanderlande.com.