Manager, Costing

ABOUT YOUR ROLE • Acts as the global functional focal point for apparel costing, driving enterprise standards, influencing strategic sourcing decisions, and enabling margin delivery across the product creation lifecycle. • Leads end-to-end costing execution across a global sourcing portfolio, ensuring cost accuracy, transparency, and alignment to brand margin targets. • Owns global costing delivery by embedding enterprise costing standards into disciplined regional execution, enabled through active leadership, development, and coaching of Senior Costing Engineers within key manufacturing regions. • Partners cross-functionally with Sourcing Development, Engineering, Product Supply Enablement (PSE), Brand Planning, Product Development, Design & merch to drive margin optimization, strengthen cost discipline, and enable fact-based, data-driven decision making across the organization. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The Costing Manager will act as central connector across Finance, PSE and Brand to establish and develop end-to-end product cost governance. This includes: 1. End-to-End Costing Delivery • Own global FOB validation, consolidation, and submission across all GTM milestones • Ensure costing accuracy, completeness, and alignment to margin targets • Provide structured visibility of FOB evolution, risks, and variance to enable decision making • Maintain discipline in milestone tracking, forecast accuracy, and buy readiness 2. Cost Governance & Standards Execution • Implement and enforce global costing standards, frameworks, and processes across regions • Ensure consistency in costing methodologies, assumptions, and tools • Own governance of cost changes, exceptions, and approval processes • Drive transparency and accountability in costing outcomes 3. Regional Costing Leadership • Lead regional costing execution through Senior Costing Engineers in key sourcing countries (e.g., Vietnam, Bangladesh) • Set clear expectations, monitor performance, and ensure delivery against timelines and targets • Drive alignment of regional execution to global costing strategy and operating model • Identify and escalate risks impacting cost performance or GTM readiness 4. Cost Optimization & Commercial Impact • Lead vendor-facing cost negotiations and cost engineering initiatives • Identify opportunities across materials, construction, and manufacturing efficiency to improve margins • Partner with Engineering, Sourcing, and Product teams to balance cost, quality, and product intent • Support sourcing allocation decisions through cost competitiveness insights 5. Cross-Functional Partnership • Partner with Product Development, Merchandising, Sourcing, PSE, and Finance to align on cost targets and margin delivery • Provide insights on economic trends, cost drivers, trade impacts, and regional dynamics to inform decision making • Contribute to integrated planning and cost projection discussions 6. Reporting & Insights • Lead structured costing communication at key GTM milestones • Consolidate regional inputs into clear, actionable global insights • Highlight risks, opportunities, and recommended actions to stakeholders 7. Capability Building • Build costing capability across regions through coaching and guidance of Sr Costing Engineers • Develop team discipline in: • Costing fundamentals • Analytical rigor • Stakeholder communication COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect product costs, sourcing strategies, margin performance, and business outcomes. • Demonstrated analytical thinking and problem-solving capability, with the ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations. • Proven ability to influence and build alignment across cross-functional stakeholders in a complex, matrixed environment. • Strong leadership capability with experience coaching, developing, and leading teams while driving accountability and continuous improvement. • Results-oriented with a strong ownership mindset and ability to deliver in a fast-paced, milestone-driven environment. • Effective communicator with the ability to simplify complex topics and influence decision-making through clear insights and business storytelling. • Proven change agent with the ability to drive process standardization, governance, and adoption of new ways of working. • Digital and continuous improvement mindset with a passion for leveraging data, systems, and technology to improve performance. KEY QUALIFICATIONS • Bachelor's degree in Textile Engineering, Apparel Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field. • 6+ years of experience in apparel sourcing, manufacturing, product costing, cost engineering, or supply chain operations, including multi-country sourcing environments. • Strong expertise in apparel costing, garment construction, manufacturing processes, material cost drivers, and vendor economics. • Proven track record of delivering cost optimization, cost engineering, and vendor negotiation initiatives that improve margin performance. • Strong understanding of FOB development, cost forecasting, margin management, and costing governance processes. • Advanced analytical and financial modeling capabilities, including proficiency in Excel and costing tools. • Knowledge of global sourcing dynamics, trade regulations, tariffs, and regional manufacturing competitiveness. • Experience working in a global matrix organization with cross-functional stakeholder management responsibilities. 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