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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 .\nYour 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.\nThese 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.\nThis 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.\nYou 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.\nKeep a global view on initiatives, policies, regulatory framework and projects that have an impact on the costing and profitability of Bpost","description_format":"text","description_chars":2594,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Transportation & Logistics","Logistics","Smartphones"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-11T19:18:05Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":55,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.77,"p_room":0.72,"age_days":92,"expected_fill_days":139,"reasons":["conf:1","win:mid","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/bpost-costing-project-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/bpost-costing-project-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T09:31:19Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12055,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":455400},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=455400"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbpost-costing-project-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbpost-costing-project-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbpost-costing-project-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/bpost-costing-project-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbpost-costing-project-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2291991}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"bpost.be","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2291991},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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