Cost Control Manager

About the Role

AlKhalejiah is seeking an experienced Cost Control Manager to lead and enhance the costing function for its food manufacturing operations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role focuses on bakery, pastry, sweets, and related products. The manager will be responsible for establishing accurate product costing, monitoring production expenses, analyzing variances, and controlling inventory-related costs to identify opportunities for margin improvement and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the factory’s cost control and product-costing activities.
• Develop and maintain accurate standard costs for raw materials, labor, packaging, and manufacturing overheads.
• Calculate and review product costs using recipes, Bills of Materials (BOM), production yields, and routing data.
• Monitor actual production costs against standard and budgeted costs.
• Analyze material, labor, overhead, purchase-price, usage, yield, and production variances.
• Review food costs, wastage, spoilage, production losses, and consumption patterns.
• Monitor inventory valuation and reconcile raw materials, work in progress, finished goods, and packaging materials.
• Ensure accurate allocation of direct and indirect manufacturing costs.
• Analyze product, category, customer, and channel profitability.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising product quality or operational standards.
• Support pricing decisions through accurate cost and margin analysis.
• Partner closely with Production, Supply Chain, Procurement, Warehouse, Sales, and Finance teams.
• Participate in physical inventory counts and investigate stock and consumption discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly cost reports, dashboards, forecasts, and management presentations.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, month-end closing, and management reporting.
• Improve costing policies, internal controls, reporting tools, and ERP costing processes.
• Provide management with clear recommendations to improve margins and factory performance.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in a relevant role.
• Strong hands-on experience in manufacturing cost accounting.
• Prior experience within the food, bakery, pastry, confectionery, or FMCG industry is preferred.

Work Setting

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, focusing on food manufacturing operations.