Senior Lead Costing (Footwear)

This is your opportunity to become part of the world's fastest-growing sports company.
As a Senior Lead in the costing team, you will support the Head of Footwear Costing in driving brand costing strategic direction and optimizing product cost for footwear products. In detail, you will be responsible for maximizing margin opportunities through leveraging key levers by implementing cost standardization and strengthening cost strategy. You will strongly coordinate and facilitate all cost-related topics internally within the costing team and externally with other functions.
Purpose:
• Supporting Head of Footwear Costing and particularly in line with Brand Costing strategics direction, optimize product cost for Footwear product.
• Maximize Margin opportunity through the leveraging of key levers by implementing costing standard and strengthen Costing strategy.
• Strongly co-ordinate and facilitate all Costing related topics internally within Costing team and externally with other functions.
Key Responsibilities:
• 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 implementing and execution in place
• Communication: Be able to represent Costing function in the Organization to Communicate Costing initiative and be able to provide Costing insights and Costing guidance and principles
• Cost optimization: Deliver customized Costing training to the Creation & Sourcing team to drive cost 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.
• Innovation: Support costing needs of Brand innovations and ensure alignment on costing basic principles and manuals whenever applicable.
• 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.
• Trends: Stay up to date on footwear industry and business trends and drivers to support proactive adjustment to the dynamic cost environment