Manager of Product Costing & Margin Analytics
Dart Container•Mason, MI
•Onsite
About The Position
Dart is seeking a Product Costing & Margin Analytics Manager to lead a high-performing team responsible for product cost analytics. In this influential role, you will provide the transparent, decision-ready insights leaders need to strengthen margins, improve productivity, and drive profitable growth. This is an opportunity to shape how product-cost information is understood and used throughout the business. You will bring Finance, Operations, and Commercial leaders together around a reliable source of cost insight, helping the organization make faster, smarter, and more competitive decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or a related field.
- Progressive experience in manufacturing finance, product costing, and FP&A.
- Supervisory experience or demonstrated technical and analytical leadership.
- Experience leading cross-functional margin-improvement initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing cost structures, process economics, and ERP cost flows.
- Proficiency with SAP, advanced Excel modeling, and Power BI.
- Demonstrated project-management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience mentoring and developing others.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or CPA.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of business cases for new products, evaluating financial performance and marketplace competitiveness.
- Identify opportunities to improve material, labor, and manufacturing efficiency.
- Deliver actionable cost analytics that support pricing, product life cycle, manufacturing footprint, and make-versus-buy decisions.
- Analyze product-level performance to uncover margin and productivity opportunities.
- Establish consistent cost transparency across Finance, Operations, and Commercial teams.
- Translate complex cost information into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
- Connect product-cost insights to financial outcomes and operational drivers.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to implement cost-structure improvements.
- Set team priorities and analytical standards that align with enterprise objectives.
- Develop team members’ analytical capabilities and business acumen.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- 401(k) with company matching contributions
- paid vacation
- paid holidays
- short-term disability
- tuition assistance
- product discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
