Senior Manager - Cost Intelligence and Containment

The Senior Manager - Cost Intelligence and Containment exists to close a critical enterprise gap in cost visibility, cost discipline, and proactive spend management.

The Senior Manager - Cost Intelligence provides data-driven insight, rigorous challenge, and disciplined execution, ensuring waste reduction, strengthens spend governance, and achieves sustainable savings. The role acts as a neutral enterprise change agent.

Job Responsibilities

1.     Strategic Performance, Cost Intelligence & Advisory

• Act as the Executive's analytical partner, translating operational and financial data into actionable performance insights, forecasts, and recommendations.
• Lead rigorous, system-level cost and consumption analysis to uncover leakage, duplication, and inefficiencies.
• Maintain and enhance executive dashboards and early-warning indicators for costs, efficiency, and operational performance.

2.     Cost Containment Framework, Governance & Execution

• Establish and own the Cost Containment Framework, setting standards, processes, and governance for cost management across functions and territories.
• Challenge budgets, spend assumptions, operational procedures, and supplier engagements with data-backed authority.
• Drive cross-functional cost-containment execution, embedding controls, eliminating waste, and ensuring sustainability of results.

3.     Operational Efficiency & Value Realisation

• Lead analyses to identify productivity gains, resource synergies, and process streamlining opportunities across HR, IT, Facilities, Procurement, and other Shared Services.
• Formulate cost-optimisation strategies and business cases ensuring targeted savings, positive ROI, and acceptable payback periods.
• Support in prioritising transformation investments based on quantifiable value and efficiency outcomes.

4.     Enterprise Reporting & Performance Monitoring

• Oversee preparation of quarterly Performance Dashboards, Operational Effectiveness Reports, and cost-management updates for the Board and Executive Committee
• Validate performance indicators, cost allocations, efficiency outcomes, and savings against agreed baselines.
• Maintain a rolling “Efficiency Tracker” consolidating Group-level savings and improvement initiatives.

5.     Foundation & ESG Governance

• Manage the governance, spend allocation, and impact measurement framework for the Foundation.
• Ensure alignment of disbursements and reporting with ESG/CSR mandates.