Global Product Costing Manager

Position Summary

The Global Product Costing Manager owns and drives global product costing excellence across Teleflex. This is a high-impact individual contributor role that operates without formal authority, requiring the ability to lead through expertise, credibility, and influence across a complex matrix of regional finance teams, manufacturing plants, and corporate stakeholders.
A core pillar of the role is leading the annual global cost roll process — from preparation through execution — and acting as the center of excellence for SAP product costing knowledge within Teleflex. The role holder will be the go-to partner for regional teams on costing methodology, data integrity, and issue resolution.
Based at Teleflex’s Global Operations headquarters in Athlone, the role is uniquely positioned to support all global locations within a single working day, enabling timely and consistent costing support across all regions and time zones.

Principal Responsibilities

Key responsibilities will include (but are not limited to) the following:

Annual Cost Roll
•    Lead all activities associated with preparing, executing, and issuing costing results to plants at each stage of the annual cost roll.
•    Manage the update and issuance of the True Cost Table from SAP.
•    Drive continuous improvement in the cost roll process and lead the implementation of future changes globally.

Stakeholder Leadership & Influence
•    Partner with Plant Controllers across all regions to analyze and review costing outputs, providing expert guidance to improve accuracy — without relying on positional authority.
•    Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert to regional finance teams, business units, and manufacturing plants on all product costing matters.
•    Build strong working relationships across a complex global stakeholder network, earning influence through technical credibility and consistent delivery.
•    Resolve costing queries from the business in a timely and solutions-oriented manner, often navigating ambiguity across organizational boundaries.

Policy, Process & Governance
•    Develop and maintain policies and procedures for product cost management, driving harmonization in costing methodology across global operations.
•    Establish and embed standard work across all main product costing processes.
•    Support manufacturing plants and distribution centers globally in data cleansing activities, identifying root causes of costing errors and guiding resolution.
•    Manage all data maintenance and cleansing requirements that arise between annual cost roll cycles.

Capability Building & Project Support
•    Champion the deepening and broadening of SAP product costing knowledge across Teleflex, delivering training and upskilling programs for regional teams.
•    Support integration of new acquisitions and existing sites into SAP costing frameworks.
•    Provide costing expertise for once-off project requirements including system implementations, upgrades, and supply chain changes.

Education / Experience Requirements

•    Third-level degree in a financial discipline, with a professional accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CPA) or active pursuit of same.
•    Minimum 5 years’ experience in a product costing or management accounting role within a global, multi-site manufacturing organization.
•    Demonstrated ability to influence and drive outcomes across organizational boundaries without direct authority — essential for this role.
•    Proven experience with SAP Costing (CO-PC module); experience in other enterprise costing systems will be considered.
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a methodical and detail-oriented approach.
•    Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly and confidently at all levels of the organization, from plant floor finance teams to senior leadership.
•    Advanced Excel skills; comfortable with large datasets and data manipulation.
•    Experience developing or improving costing policies and procedures in a complex, multi-entity environment.
•    Strong project management skills — able to plan, coordinate, and deliver across multiple workstreams simultaneously, managing timelines, stakeholders, and competing priorities in a complex global environment.
•    Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet strict deadlines in a fast-moving, international business.

Specialized Skills / Other Requirements

Key Relationships / Interfaces:
•    Plant Controllers and manufacturing plant costing teams (global)
•    Commercial teams and business units
•    Finance leadership and regional finance teams
•    IT / ERP teams
•    Corporate Tax

Behaviours & Values:

•    Influence without authority — builds trust and drives alignment through expertise and relationships, not hierarchy.
•    Collaborative and culturally aware — comfortable operating across diverse, global teams with sensitivity and respect.
•    Self-directed and proactive — takes ownership, anticipates issues, and acts without needing to be prompted.
•    Continuous improvement mindset — always looking to simplify, standardize, and enhance processes.
•    Resilient and adaptable — thrives in a dynamic, fast-changing multinational environment.
•    Strong judgement — able to navigate ambiguous situations and make sound, well-reasoned decisions.

TRAVEL REQUIRED: Approx 10% travel required  

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