Costing Lead

About Limitless Naturals:
Limitless Naturals is one of the fastest-growing consumer health companies in the region, offering science-led food supplements and sports nutrition products that help people live longer, healthier lives.
We combine our pharmaceutical expertise with deep consumer insight to identify emerging health trends early and turn them into innovative, evidence-based solutions.
Our ambition goes beyond products - we are driving the longevity movement in the Arab world by inspiring healthier daily habits and making better health part of everyday life.

Job Summary:
We are seeking a Costing Lead to lead the end-to-end product costing process, ensuring accurate costing, profitability analysis, and reliable financial data. The role will drive pricing and cost optimization decisions, support budgeting and forecasting, and identify cost-saving opportunities. The Costing Lead will also partner closely with cross-functional teams and lead the costing team to ensure strong controls, accuracy, and business impact.

Key Responsibilities & Accountability: 

• Costing Process Management: Lead end-to-end costing for new launches, existing products and reformulations; develop and maintain accurate cost sheets covering raw materials, packaging, manufacturing, labor and overhead. 
• Cost Analysis & Variance Management: Monitor standard vs. actual costs, investigate significant variances, and analyze inventory valuation and the impact of slow-moving/obsolete materials. 

• Pricing & Profitability Analysis: Prepare product pricing and profitability analysis by product, SKU, customer and sales channel; recommend selling prices based on cost, margin targets and market conditions. 

• Cross-Functional Cost Partnership: Partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, Production, Quality and R&D to validate BOMs, formulations and routings, identify cost-saving opportunities, and assess the impact of raw material, packaging, FX and manufacturing cost changes. 

• Budgeting & Cost Optimization: Support the annual budgeting/forecasting process for COGS, manufacturing and material costs; establish and track cost reduction initiatives and their financial impact. 

• Reporting, Controls & Team Leadership: Prepare costing and profitability reports for senior management, ensure costing controls and compliance with policies and accounting standards, and lead, train and develop the costing team. 

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance. 

• Part/full CMA, CPA or equivalent professional qualification preferred. 

• 6+ years of costing/cost accounting experience, ideally within a manufacturing or FMCG/pharma environment, including team leadership. 

• Strong knowledge of standard costing, BOM/routing structures, and IFRS/local GAAP. 

• Proficiency with ERP systems (Oracle, SAP or similar) and advanced Excel modeling. 

• Strong analytical, business partnering and communication skills. 

• Proven ability to lead, coach and develop a costing team.