Costing Project Manager

• Bpost operates
• in a complex market environment, with a regulated mail business and a highly
• competitive parcels business. A deep understanding of our cost structure is
• crucial to support pricing, strategic and regulatory files and drive overall
• profitability for Bpost. In this context, we are looking for a Costing Project Manager.

Your

• mission
• As member
• of the costing department, your mission is twofold:

You will be

• responsible for the cost modelling of Bpost NV/SA’s Sorting operations and of
• the HQ teams. This includes responsibilities in the context of the activity
• based costing model, as well as participation in accounting processes by
• actualizing product costs and internal invoicing.

You will

• represent the costing department in multidisciplinary projects. These projects
• will typically require you to combine deep cost analysis with a strategic
• perspective. You will work in close cooperation with Strategy, Pricing, Legal
• & Regulatory as well as with Operations and have exposure to Bpost’s
• executive management.

Responsibilities

• Develop a
• deep understanding of the Bpost operational processes and associated costs in
• order to update and improve the activity based costing model. This requires
• frequent interactions with counterparts in finance and within the business
• units (e.g. operations, performance management) to stay up to date with the
• ongoing evolutions.

Provide

• input and collaborate in ad hoc studies and projects, including business cases
• for new products and services, evaluation of strategic initiatives, etc.
• Play a key
• role in supporting strategic decisions of the company by providing insightful
• analyses on the company’s cost and profit drivers. You will, over time, master
• the economics and the business model of Bpost’s various services (mail, parcel
• delivery, solutions), allowing you to advise senior management on strategic
• decisions requiring a solid fact base. The kind of strategic decisions and
• strategic projects you will support are (non-exhaustive):

Strategic

transformation projects of Bpost NV/SA (e.g. Future Operational Model);

Negotiations

of long term contracts with the Belgian State and European Commission;

Regulatory

files concerning postal regulation and competition

law ;

Dialogue

with our regulator on a broad variety of regulatory issues;

Pricing

decisions, specifically concerning negotiations with large clients or for new

product offerings;

Large

• investments based on complex business cases.
• Keep a
• global view on initiatives, policies, regulatory framework and projects that
• have an impact on the costing and profitability of Bpost