senior costing analyst, brand costing, global Product costing (footwear)

• Product Cost Ownership: Understand Brand's needs and proactively work with VF's vendors for product cost improvement through Seasonal costing milestone review, Cost Saving workshops and other initiatives
• Support Sourcing Activities: Support Costing exercise for strategic sourcing decisions.
• Operations: Manage seasonal development costing activities, support with information for negotiation with vendors and cost related analysis.
• Profitability: Utilize insights provided by the Costing Intelligence team and the Operational Costing team within GPC to identify opportunities to design to higher profitability.
• Connectivity: Support connectivity and information sharing among Product Vendors, Sourcing, Global Material Supply, Finance, Engineering and Suppliers that enables a valuable One-VF Global Costing Strategy.
• Team: Collaborate and align across the GPC organization as well as with product supply teams and vendors through continuous communication and proactively bring forth ideas for process improvements.
• Process Improvements: Achieve improvements in costing activity productivity and efficiency through eliminating redundancies, automating repetitive tasks, and optimizing processes for maximum value.
• Standardization: Ensure processes adherence across all brands and regions to leverage one-VF scale and operating procedures across the enterprise.
• Project Leadership and participation: Lead and participate in cross-functional initiatives and conduct specific analyses as needed producing deliverables in a diverse, fast paced environment through extensive collaboration across teams.
• Training: Provide Costing training to internal stakeholders and GPC members to build capability within organization
• Tooling Cost Management: Manage seasonal mold rate and reconciliation report
• Travel: In country to Vendors