Senior Lead - Footwear Costing

In short:

Supporting Head of Footwear Costing and particularly in line with Brand Costing strategic direction, optimize product cost for Footwear product.

Maximize Margin opportunity through the leveraging of key levers by implementing costing standardization and strengthen Costing strategy.

Strongly coordinate and facilitate all Costing related topics internally and externally with the numbers of stakeholders.

Your mission:

Costing direction & Costing projects: Supporting head of Footwear Costing to drive footwear Costing direction and Strategy & Costing Projects, be able to communicate Costing projects throughout the Organization and take a lead to drive the team effort by ensuring the implementation and execution in place

Communication: Be able to represent Costing function in the Organization to Communicate Costing initiatives , Be capable of providing Costing insights and Costing guidance and the ability of managing stakeholders internally and externally

Manufacturing Partnership & Negotiation: Own the costing relationship with the key manufacturers. Lead high-stakes price negotiations and build strategic partnership, and provide on the ground intelligence to inform Costing and Sourcing decisions.

Cost optimization: Deliver customized Costing training to the Creation & Sourcing team to drive cost consciousness and Support the team to optimize product cost by leveraging the costing approach

Profitability: Actively contribute to Margin maximization, through key levers such as Costing Standardization, Costing engineering, Pattern efficiency, Material Cost strategy and any other profitability related initiatives with the aim to deliver product value to the consumer while improving company profitability.

Processes & Systems: Be the part of system & process enhancement to drive Costing automation and process efficiency and effectiveness

Governance: act as gatekeeper to ensure that all costing manuals & standards, processes & policies and Costing system are understood and correctly applied consistently by suppliers and eventually leading the practice of Costing auditing

Trends: Stay up to date on footwear industry and business trends and drivers to support proactive adjustment to the dynamic cost environment.

Team Leadership & Development: Lead, Mentor and develop the individual team members. Possesses the emotional intelligence to motivate, provide constructive feedback and unlock the potential of each team member

Your story:

University degree in business, economics, accounting, engineering; and with the passion for numbers and value engineering

7+ years’ experience working at a premium footwear brand, technical experience and knowledge of product construction, manufacturing methods and with Sourcing planning will be a plus

Excellent commercial sense and very analytical mindset

Advanced project management skills with the ability of storytelling

Proficiency in both Excel and PPT

Strong price negotiation skills and impeccable integrity

Critical thinking and be able to challenge status quote and drive Costing project in the collaborative way.

Be able to motivate/ guide team to reach individual and team goals

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a fast-paced, cross-cultural, and cross-functional environment

Fluent in English spoken and written