Senior Pricing Specialist – Manufacturing

About the role

SMSUP is seeking a Senior Pricing Specialist to lead SKU cost‑sheet creation, validate bills of materials and recipes, and drive profitability analysis across its manufacturing portfolio. The role combines deep costing expertise with strategic pricing decisions to support growth and margin improvement.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain SKU cost sheets covering materials, packaging, direct labor, machine time, overhead, waste and indirect costs.
• Validate BOMs, recipes, routings and operating rates with Production, Procurement, Warehouse and Supply Chain.
• Calculate standard versus actual cost and explain material price, usage, yield, efficiency and overhead variances.
• Maintain a pricing matrix showing full cost, variable cost, contribution, break‑even, floor and target‑margin prices.
• Evaluate volume deals, discounts, strategic customers, export orders, excess capacity and inventory‑clearance cases.
• Produce monthly profitability analysis by SKU, product family, customer, channel and production line.
• Support new‑product costing, budgeting, forecasting, inventory/WIP/COGS valuation and month‑end costing reconciliations.
• Partner with Operations and Procurement on cost‑reduction, waste/yield improvement and capacity utilization decisions.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Commerce; CMA preferred.
• 5‑8 years of manufacturing costing experience in a multi‑SKU environment.
• Strong knowledge of standard, actual, absorption and contribution costing and variance analysis.
• Hands‑on experience with BOM/recipe costing, labor and machine rates, overhead absorption, waste/scrap, WIP, inventory and COGS.
• Very good spoken and written English.

Required skills

• Advanced Excel
• Power Query
• Power BI
• ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Odoo)