Job Description

WHY GLOBAL OPERATIONS?

Global Operations brings the products to life by making sure they are created, tested, mass produced and shipped to over 70 countries around the world. Our vision is to be Closest to every Consumer.  We like to say that we take the desires and dreams of consumers and turn them into something you can lace up, pull on over your head, or kick around.

As a Manager Costing Apparel you are responsible for driving the overall optimization of product value (engineered cost) and profitability.

 JOB PROFILE:   

• Be a key contributor to the Creation Centre growth and profitability by gaining a full understanding of its business potential, anticipating requirements and proposing cost-based solutions to achieve Brand adidas objectives
• In collaboration with Sourcing, Global Planning and Development, contribute to allocation strategies to ensure margin maximization in investigating potential of new sources and trade agreements for assigned global Business Unit
• Ensure availability of costing performance results for global Business Unit at each key milestone for quantitative assessment to facilitate product value/margin/FOB discussion with cross-functional teams, recommend tactical actions/adjustment in season
• Act as a consultant partner within the respective Creation Centre team and provide on demand day to day costing support as well as technical costing expertise to engineer product to cost and enable design to profitability
• Manage globally assigned cost drivers and develop an E2E costing framework to enable saving opportunities and ensure cost optimization by creating a fact based and predictable costing environment
• Develop costing tools and deliver training programs to Marketing, Design and Development to optimize product value and align target and cost and throughout the product creation process
• Support the definition and the monitoring of product costing performance and costing process performance at the key development stages by setting the framework, the KPIs and the communication process
• Support development or enhancement of systems and process to ensure costing requirements are met and to improve costing performance

Skills

• Four-year college or university degree in clothing technology and/or manufacturing or comparable education
• Minimum 3-5 years of work experience in garment/textile industry 
• Strong understanding of cost drivers and expert knowledge in cost driver management within a supplier and the entire supply chain
• Strong knowledge of production garment construction and manufacturing
• Good understanding of end-to-end costing/sourcing process
• Effective communication and negotiation skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Strong IT skills (MS Office) and ability to work with Product Data Management Systems
• Domestic and International Travel as required