Manager, Costing

ABOUT YOUR ROLE

• •Acts as the global functional focal point for apparel costing, driving enterprise standards, influencing strategic sourcing decisions, and enabling margin delivery across the product creation lifecycle.
• •Leads end-to-end costing execution across a global sourcing portfolio, ensuring cost accuracy, transparency, and alignment to brand margin targets.
• •Owns global costing delivery by embedding enterprise costing standards into disciplined regional execution, enabled through active leadership, development, and coaching of Senior Costing Engineers within key manufacturing regions.
• •Partners cross-functionally with Sourcing Development, Engineering, Product Supply Enablement (PSE), Brand Planning, Product Development, Design & merch to drive margin optimization, strengthen cost discipline, and enable fact-based, data-driven decision making across the organization.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Costing Manager will act as central connector across Finance, PSE and Brand to establish and develop end-to-end product cost governance. This includes:

1. End-to-End Costing Delivery

• •Own global FOB validation, consolidation, and submission across all GTM milestones
• •Ensure costing accuracy, completeness, and alignment to margin targets
• •Provide structured visibility of FOB evolution, risks, and variance to enable decision making
• •Maintain discipline in milestone tracking, forecast accuracy, and buy readiness

2. Cost Governance & Standards Execution

• •Implement and enforce global costing standards, frameworks, and processes across regions
• •Ensure consistency in costing methodologies, assumptions, and tools
• •Own governance of cost changes, exceptions, and approval processes
• •Drive transparency and accountability in costing outcomes

3. Regional Costing Leadership

• •Lead regional costing execution through Senior Costing Engineers in key sourcing countries (e.g., Vietnam, Bangladesh)
• •Set clear expectations, monitor performance, and ensure delivery against timelines and targets
• •Drive alignment of regional execution to global costing strategy and operating model
• •Identify and escalate risks impacting cost performance or GTM readiness

4. Cost Optimization & Commercial Impact

• •Lead vendor-facing cost negotiations and cost engineering initiatives
• •Identify opportunities across materials, construction, and manufacturing efficiency to improve margins
• •Partner with Engineering, Sourcing, and Product teams to balance cost, quality, and product intent
• •Support sourcing allocation decisions through cost competitiveness insights

5. Cross-Functional Partnership

• •Partner with Product Development, Merchandising, Sourcing, PSE, and Finance to align on cost targets and margin delivery
• •Provide insights on economic trends, cost drivers, trade impacts, and regional dynamics to inform decision making
• •Contribute to integrated planning and cost projection discussions

6. Reporting & Insights

• •Lead structured costing communication at key GTM milestones
• •Consolidate regional inputs into clear, actionable global insights
• •Highlight risks, opportunities, and recommended actions to stakeholders

7. Capability Building

• •Build costing capability across regions through coaching and guidance of Sr Costing Engineers
• •Develop team discipline in:
• •Costing fundamentals
• •Analytical rigor
• •Stakeholder communication

COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS

• •Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect product costs, sourcing strategies, margin performance, and business outcomes.
• •Demonstrated analytical thinking and problem-solving capability, with the ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations.
• •Proven ability to influence and build alignment across cross-functional stakeholders in a complex, matrixed environment.
• •Strong leadership capability with experience coaching, developing, and leading teams while driving accountability and continuous improvement.
• •Results-oriented with a strong ownership mindset and ability to deliver in a fast-paced, milestone-driven environment.
• •Effective communicator with the ability to simplify complex topics and influence decision-making through clear insights and business storytelling.
• •Proven change agent with the ability to drive process standardization, governance, and adoption of new ways of working.
• •Digital and continuous improvement mindset with a passion for leveraging data, systems, and technology to improve performance.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• •Bachelor's degree in Textile Engineering, Apparel Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field.
• •6+ years of experience in apparel sourcing, manufacturing, product costing, cost engineering, or supply chain operations, including multi-country sourcing environments.
• •Strong expertise in apparel costing, garment construction, manufacturing processes, material cost drivers, and vendor economics.
• •Proven track record of delivering cost optimization, cost engineering, and vendor negotiation initiatives that improve margin performance.
• •Strong understanding of FOB development, cost forecasting, margin management, and costing governance processes.
• •Advanced analytical and financial modeling capabilities, including proficiency in Excel and costing tools.
• •Knowledge of global sourcing dynamics, trade regulations, tariffs, and regional manufacturing competitiveness.
• •Experience working in a global matrix organization with cross-functional stakeholder management responsibilities.

R-20260707-0005