Who We Are

Munchkin is one of the most innovative and fast-growing consumer product companies in the world! After 30 years of being a leader in the baby industry, Munchkin is growing up and expanding our business reach to even more consumers with the launch of Curio, a highly curated line of home products inspired by curiosity.

Founded in 1990, Munchkin has sold billions of dollars of products through our key retail partners: Target, Walmart and Amazon and has global distribution in over 45 countries. At Munchkin, we make world-class, award-winning products, and believe in only producing the safest ones on the market. We are industry leaders in design and innovation with over 140 international product and brand design awards in the past 5 years and growing! Munchkin has a world-class portfolio of over 300 patents and has recently averaged over 20 new patents per year.

We lead with our core values and believe that investing in the community is our responsibility. We create opportunities for every child’s potential and well-being through the Radiant Colors program, work to create a sustainable future, and in partnership with the International Fund for Animal welfare have committed to animal conservation.

There is no better time than now to join Munchkin as we embark on our next and biggest growth journey moving us into technology focused, higher valued products, and household consumer goods. Munchkin is growing up and you could be the next influential leader to play a key role in driving enormous customer-centered value and join us on our journey toward rapid growth.

What You’ll Do

A leader who will work side by side with the Sr. Director of Procurement, and lead a team of talented costing professional to achieve company goals and offer best in class costing procedures. This is a high visibility role and will be responsible for cost management to evaluate product designs, provide a framework to drive cost reduction, develop cost estimates which are used by cross functional departments in the design and development process, and manage the costing system that provides the product costing statistic to produce the financial reports.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide timely, competitive and reliable product cost estimates and economic information of products in support of the effective execution of design, development and manufacturing process.
• Analyze product design to effect maximum utilization of materials, methods and processes in order to meet cost objectives and quality specifications.
• Ability to Identify areas for cost reduction during design process to help teams meet cost targets. Develop “should cost” estimates.
• Develop cost control and improvement projects each year to partner with factories.
• Responsible for maintaining a material cost library and tracking core commodity costs.
• Communicates updates to management and other stakeholders regarding product costing activities.
• Active participant in the annual budget setting process.
• Evaluation of factories and their capabilities.

Bring It!

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Applied Science or Applied Mathematics from a four-year college or university.
• Minimum of 7+ years working experience in product costing.
• Thorough understanding of the product development and manufacturing processes; prior work experience inside manufacturing environment is an essential requirement.
• Merchandising knowledge or experience in the consumer product industry is a plus.
• Knowledge of financial and engineering economy concepts is a definite advantage
• Good presentation and communication skills in both written and spoken English

Travel:

• This position will eventually require domestic and international travel of up to 15%.

Position Requirements:

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship by Munchkin.

We Got You Covered!

Salary range: $100,000 - $125,000 annually

To learn more, visit us at www.munchkin.com.

Munchkin embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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Education

• Bachelors or better in Engineering or related field

Skills

• Microsoft Excel

Behaviors

• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
• Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity