Costing Analyst, Footwear (Specialist to Senior)

ABOUT YOUR ROLE:
The Engineer, costing will be responsible for development costing operations, partner with sourcing development and brand stakeholders to drive best in class costing processes and seasonal development costing that support 100's of millions of dollars' worth in product cost across several VF brands, products and countries. This individual will support modernization and standardization of costing approaches utilizing consistent data-driven, automated and efficient processes in partnership with VF product sourcing teams and Vendors in country of manufacturing. This individual will bring a strong product and manufacturing background and will work closely with the product sourcing and development teams on designing to cost to achieve product cost savings for the organization. This individual will fully leverage "One VF" scale through the use of harmonized and scalable fact-based costing methodologies and will play an important role in the development sourcing organization with an extensive focus on development costing optimization.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE (but not limited to):
• Connectivity: Champion connectivity and seamless information sharing across vendors and cross-functional stakeholders within but not limited to the sourcing, brand, material, planning organization.
• Operations: Manage seasonal development costing milestones and activities.
• Profitability: Lead negotiation with vendor partners utilizing insights and fact-based costing methodologies as well as product engineering to design to higher profitability. Work closely with development sourcing on vendors allocations by providing FOB & Landed costing perspectives to support sourcing strategies.
• Governance: Ensure costing process adherence by costing operations teams as well as vendors. Track and report on key metrics to ensure established processes are fully aligned with the performance, efficiency and transparency needs of the costing organization.
• Team: Demonstrates strong leadership by ensuring the best standards of performance, collaboration and partnership across the product supply organization.
• Process Improvements: Achieve improvements in costing activity productivity and efficiency through eliminating redundancies, automating repetitive tasks and optimizing processes for maximum value.
• Project Leadership and participation: Lead and participate in various cross-functional initiatives and conduct specific analyses as needed producing deliverables in a diverse, fast paced environment through extensive collaboration across teams