In short

  • Be part of Footwear Costing and particularly in line with the Brand Costing strategic direction, optimize product cost for footwear products.

  • Maximize margin opportunity through the leveraging of key levers by implementing cost standardization and strengthening costing strategy.

  • Strongly coordinate and facilitate all cost-related topics internally and externally with the numbers of stakeholders

Your Mission

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

  • Communication: Be able to represent the costing function in the organization to communicate costing initiatives, Be capable of providing Costing insights and costing guidance, and have the ability to manage stakeholders internally and externally

  • 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 cost standardization, cost 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 able to support the system & process enhancement to drive cost automation and process efficiency and effectiveness

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

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

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  • Man and woman sat at desks talking
  • Open planned office with men and women sat on a a large curved sofa
  • Group of runners talking outside the office
  • A team of people sat on the steps with a view of mountains outside the office.
  • Two women smiling at each other in a meeting room with large curved windows
  • A group of people sat around a table looking at large design papers
  • 3 men sat around with laptops smiling at each other
  • a large group of runners holding an On flag smiling at the camera
  • Man and woman sat at desks talking
  • Open planned office with men and women sat on a a large curved sofa
  • Group of runners talking outside the office
  • A team of people sat on the steps with a view of mountains outside the office.
  • Two women smiling at each other in a meeting room with large curved windows
  • A group of people sat around a table looking at large design papers
  • 3 men sat around with laptops smiling at each other
  • a large group of runners holding an On flag smiling at the camera

Your story

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

  • 3-5+ years’ experience working at a premium footwear brand; technical experience and knowledge of product construction, manufacturing methods and 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 being able to challenge the status quo and drive the costing project in a 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.

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About the Team

We, the Costing team, collaborate closely and cross-functionally with teams from development, materials, finance, production, and supply chain to identify opportunities for increasing company margins.

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