Manager, Costing Excellence SMV

This role will support in setting strategic direction for costing to ensure the simplifying the costing process & getting costing transparency with supplier. He/she performs work and supports the Senior Manager / Director with the clear objective of setting up transparent costing with vendor & support in costing negotiations process.
• Simplifying the whole costing process & establishing transparent costing with suppliers
• Support in setting up business allocation decision based on product family
• Improve the AUC margin expectations through key levers product strategy, man machine ratio, factory efficiency, labor cost and material optimization with the aim to deliver product value to the consumer.
• Support in setting up costing frameworks, standards and tools that enable transparent, fact-based costing with suppliers
• Explore & develop training materials for both Gap internal staffs & external vendors/factories.
• Establish an appropriate governance for cost validation through factory auditing, material ordering tracking, benchmarking process
• Support in maintaining best manufacturing benchmarking processes Library across all product category.
• Supporting in creating factory level/country level cost competitive matrix.
• Explore & develop new training tools and training materials for both Gap internal staffs & external vendors/factories.
• Supports and tracks key factory productivity metrics including SMV and Y/Y values.
• Benchmarks best practice manufacturing methods globally.