A Cost and Sales Record Supervisor leads the team maintaining the records behind product costing and sales reporting — owning data integrity, period-end reporting, and the analytical work that supports pricing and margin decisions.
Most weeks revolve around transactional record maintenance and reporting cycles. You're reviewing entries, reconciling cost and sales records, coaching staff on data hygiene, and partnering with accounting on month-end and with sales analytics on margin reporting. Year-end and audit windows tend to be intense.
The collaboration tends to be wider than expected. You're working with accounting, sales operations, supply chain, and IT when system issues create record gaps. Friction usually lives in the gap between what operations records and what reporting needs, and patient reconciliation work matters.
People who tend to thrive enjoy detail-heavy record-keeping with analytical and reporting consequences and find satisfaction in clean numbers. If you need strategic stretch, faster pace, or work outside reporting cycles, the role can feel narrow.
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A Cost and Sales Record Supervisor leads the team maintaining the records behind product costing and sales reporting — owning data integrity, period-end reporting, and the analytical work that supports pricing and margin decisions.
Median pay for a Cost and Sales Record Supervisor is about $66K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $44K to $103K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Social Perceptiveness, Coordination, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, and Speaking.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 0.3% through 2034, with roughly 1.5 million people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Food Checkers and Cashiers Supervisor, Sales Supervisor, and Sales Clerk Supervisor.
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