Manager, Costing Business Analytics

PURPOSE  

A key contributor within Global PD&S (Product Development & Sourcing), supporting the organization’s ambition to build a more agile, competitive, digitalized, and responsible supply base in the industry The position focuses on developing and improving costing analytics across PD&S, Business Units (BU), and Regional Sourcing Operation teams, providing leadership with consistent and decision-ready visibility.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Enable PD&S management, BU Costing & Sourcing Operation teams to make informed decisions by providing structured costing analyses and deep‑dives.
• Take end‑to‑end ownership for assigned Power BI reports and analytical applications, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and on‑time delivery.
• Facilitate the development and continuous improvement of analytics to ensure Costing requirements and objectives are met to improve Global Costing performance.
• Participate in discussions with PD&S counterparts to continuously identify opportunities and synergies to standardize costing analytics and develop new capabilities; and customize where necessary.
• Ensure the reliability and accuracy of costing systems to enable operational efficiency, data reporting and analysis.
• Provide Costing Leadership with insights on ad-hoc analytics requests, costing driver developments, and supplier competitiveness using systematic analytics and benchmarking methods.
• Proactively upskill on industry and costing relevant knowledge, embrace information-sharing to leverage learnings.
• Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity Equity & Inclusion that strives for an inclusive workplace.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS 

• Global Sourcing: Sourcing Operations, Costing, Materials, Allocation & Planning, Manufacturing Excellence, Product Development

• Global Operations: Business Unit Costing Operations, Global Strategy & Programs, TECH

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Strong hands-on expertise in Power BI (data modeling, DAX, performance optimization)
• Exposure to Sourcing industry, product costing, product development or production is a plus
• Strong analytical skills, problem-solving, solution and customer-oriented
• Strong business acumen with the ability to link costing analytics to business context and decisions
• Ability to work independently and drive results
• Detail‑oriented, structured, and able to explain analysis clearly
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Advanced Excel and Microsoft office skills

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• University degree
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Multinational Company environment e.g. data analytics, costing, supply chain management background