Senior Manager - Cost Intelligence and Containment

About the role

The Senior Manager – Cost Intelligence & Containment leads enterprise‑wide initiatives to improve cost visibility, discipline, and proactive spend management. Reporting to the President of GSSL/Group COO, the role acts as a neutral change agent, providing data‑driven insights that reduce waste and drive sustainable savings across the organization.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with the COO to translate operational and financial data into actionable performance insights, forecasts, and recommendations.
• Conduct system‑level cost and consumption analyses to identify leakage, duplication, and inefficiencies across shared services and business units.
• Maintain and enhance executive dashboards and early‑warning indicators for cost, efficiency, and operational performance.
• Establish and own the Group’s Cost Containment Framework, setting standards, processes, and governance for cost management.
• Drive cross‑functional cost‑containment execution, embedding controls, eliminating waste, and ensuring sustainability of results.
• Identify productivity gains, resource synergies, and process‑streamlining opportunities across HR, IT, Facilities, Procurement, and other shared services.
• Prepare quarterly Group Performance Dashboards, Operational Effectiveness Reports, and cost‑management updates for senior leadership.
• Manage governance, spend allocation, and impact measurement for the Guardian Group Foundational ESG framework.

Required profile

• Strategic, analytical leader with a proven track record in cost analysis and operational excellence.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, capable of influencing finance, procurement, and operations teams.
• Experience in developing and governing cost‑containment frameworks at enterprise scale.
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations for senior executives.

Required skills