Costing Manager

As a premier global food provider, the OSI Group partners with the world’s leading food service and retail food brands to provide concept-to-table solutions that delight consumers around the globe.

Join us and discover a work experience where diverse ideas are met with enthusiasm, and where you can learn and grow to your full potential. We’re looking for individuals who thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and who enjoy working as a team to deliver unparalleled service and solutions to our customers.

The Costing Manager is a key leadership role within Operations Finance, responsible for owning and governing the end-to-end finance bill of material and product costing process for OSI North America. This individual will establish and enforce the standards, policies, and procedures that ensure BOM accuracy, product costing integrity, and process consistency across all North America facilities.

A critical nuance of this role is that OSI maintains two parallel sets of bills of material. The first is owned by R&D and Operations and is managed through SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), reflecting the product specification and formulation view. The second is the finance BOM, owned by Finance and Operations Accounting, which drives standard costing. The Costing Manager must develop a deep understanding of both BOM sets, how they relate to each other, and where differences exist.

This individual is responsible for ensuring that changes in the R&D/Operations BOM are appropriately reflected in the finance BOM, and that both remain accurate and aligned. This requires careful coordination, strong attention to detail, and the judgment to know when a change in one BOM necessitates an update in the other.

The Costing Manager must bring strong critical thinking skills to evaluate costing assumptions, challenge inconsistencies, and independently assess whether a BOM accurately reflects the manufacturing reality at each facility. The role requires the judgment to ask the right questions, identify gaps that others may overlook, and make informed recommendations.

• Job is an individual contributor.
• Job is an individual contributor and has no direct reports.

• The Costing Manager owns and governs the finance BOM and new product costing setup process in SAP, leading cross-functional coordination across the following areas:
• R&D – Drive alignment on new product specifications and formulations; critically evaluate whether specs are complete and costing-ready; determine whether new components are required. Monitor changes in the R&D/PLM BOM that require corresponding updates to the finance BOM.
• FSQA – Partner on product specifications, ingredient and allergen requirements, and regulatory considerations that impact BOM structure, component selection, and costing assumptions.
• Process Team – Oversee definition of production capabilities; validate recommended WIP and finished goods material numbers and ensure they align with the costing structure.
• Plant Managers / Plant Operations – Lead the collection and validation of production process assumptions including yields, through puts, waste factors, labor, and overhead. Critically assess whether assumptions are reasonable and consistent across facilities producing similar products.
• Plant Supply Chain – Coordinate the creation of new components and new WIP/finished goods materials in SAP; establish and manage due dates; hold stakeholders accountable to timelines.
• Plant Controllers – Closely partner on costing of new components and WIP/finished goods materials; validate that standard costs accurately reflect BOM structures and process assumptions; proactively identify and resolve costing discrepancies.
• Operations Finance (this role) – Own the finance bill of materials end-to-end. Ensure alignment between the R&D/PLM BOM and the finance BOM. Establish and enforce governance standards for consistency across all North America facilities. Maintain process flow maps. Drive continuous improvement. Serve as the subject matter expert on BOM structure and product costing within the finance organization.

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