Skyborn Renewables is a pioneer and leading offshore wind developer and operator with more than 20 years' experience and a track record of approx. 7 GW developed around the globe to date. The competencies of our 400 employees cover the entire offshore wind value chain, including greenfield development, engineering and design, procurement, financing, construction management and asset management.

Do you want to make a difference? To advance the energy transition in an international and growing business field? Skyborn Renewables offers you the opportunity to do so.

With us, you can expect a dynamic environment with committed employees as well as the opportunity to break new ground and expand your skills.

Become a part of our friendly team at our location in Bremen or Hamburg as a

Senior Cost Model Analyst (all genders)

The Cost Model Analyst support the value and cost engineering function by building and maintaining a robust, fact-based cost transparency foundation for Skyborn offshore wind projects that improves project economics. The role focuses on developing clean-sheet / should-cost models, benchmark databases, and analytical tools to enable informed decision-making, cost optimization, and negotiation preparation across the portfolio and lifecycle.
The role acts as the analytical backbone of the team, ensuring consistency, data quality and scalability of cost engineering tools and insights.

Build and maintain cost modeling capabilities such as clean-sheet and should‑cost models across priority packages
Develop and manage a central cost fact base including benchmarks, marked indices, and historical project data
Provide analytical support to value engineering, procurement, and commercial decision-making
Standardize modelling approach, templates, documentation and model governance within the function
Support value-engineering workshops and contract optimizations / negotiations
Develop detailed clean-sheet cost models for key components and priority spend categories and packages
Build and maintain benchmark database and benchmark packs, ensure consistency of assumptions and sources, include trend analysis
Develop scenario tools to model cost drivers and sensitivities to support decision points and negotiation preparation
Prepare structured cost analysis outputs and reports for stakeholders
Maintain documentation standards: decision logs, tracking, and a library of tools / standards
Organize and support value engineering workshops with disciplines engineers and packages, commercial teams
Support contract optimizations and negotiations with analytical results showing technical cost levers, pricing implications and negotiation options

Engineering degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil or Industrial Engineering) or equivalent technical discipline.
Several years of experience in cost modelling, should-costing, financial modelling, benchmark data and comparative analytics within the oil and gas, energy, manufacturing industry or equivalent industry
Strong cost modeling capability including knowledge of benchmarking data, data providers and tools like power BI, python or similar
Strong analytical capability to interrogate cost drivers and assumptions across engineering and commercial dimensions.
Engineering and manufacturing process understanding relevant for cost drivers
Fluent in English; additional languages are an advantage
Willingness to travel to suppliers and other office locations as requested

Permanent employment in an international company that is continuously expanding
Mobile office regulation of 40% per week
30 days of vacation, extended with possible unpaid vacation days, afternoon off on your own birthday
Open doors and room for your own ideas in a friendly, modern working environment
Further education and training opportunities
Company bicycle leasing (business bike) and company fitness (EGYM Wellpass)
Central office location with direct access to public transportation
Extraordinary company celebrations, team events and sporting events
Other employee benefits: capital-forming benefits, subsidized company pension plan, bonus for employees who recruit employees

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