Trách nhiệm chính

• Lead footwear product costing across Asia, delivering reliable cost analysis, transparent cost standards, and opportunities to improve product value.
• Build and manage a capable costing team, collaborating closely with Product Development, Technical, Supply Chain Management, and global partners to support timely commercial decisions while protecting product quality and delivery.
• Oversee the footwear costing process from development through production handoff, including cost sheet preparation, review, validation, updates, and clear documentation of assumptions and approvals.
• Maintain consistent costing methods and benchmarks for materials, components, consumption and yield, labor, manufacturing processes, and overhead across factories and product categories.
• Review factory submissions for accuracy and completeness; challenge material usage, process assumptions, and cost changes with evidence, and resolve discrepancies with relevant teams.
• Establish practical controls for costing milestones, version history, exceptions, and escalations to ensure decisions and approved changes are traceable.
• Analyze pattern consumption and material yield using tools such as PROCAM or equivalent systems; validate findings with factory data and physical product construction.
• Identify cost and efficiency opportunities through material, component, construction, and process analysis; assess quality, aesthetic, capacity, and delivery implications with PD and Technical before recommending changes.
• Lead cost negotiations with vendors/suppliers to achieve target IMU and AUC goals.
• Build and maintain benchmarking data (labor, trade, materials) at country, regional, and global levels to strengthen negotiating position.
• Establish LOP by product type matrix by factory, based on economic trends and brand health considerations.
• Manage tooling cost negotiation and amortization.
• Monitor FX exposure and commodity price volatility, translating impacts into cost models and margin forecasts.
• Forecast market labor trends to proactively flag risk.
• Serve as subject matter expert on category-specific commodity cost drivers and recommend hedging or mitigation strategies for cost-increased risk tied to currency and raw material swing.
• Support footwear-specific needs in costing tool/system development to improve estimation speed and unlock system analytics.
• Partner with IT/PLM teams to define footwear requirements for costing modules within operating systems.
• Identify opportunities to streamline costing workflows, reduce manual rework/errors, and improve end-to-end system productivity.
• Ensure data integrity and governance, and provide RM and SP training and support for system interfaces.
• Work with PD and Technical to align design intent, product construction, development changes, and factory execution with accurate costing outcomes.
• Partner with SCM, Finance, and global stakeholders on costing decisions, sharing clear options, trade-offs, and recommendations; escalating issues requiring approval through agreed decision channels.
• Lead, coach, and develop the footwear costing team; set priorities, strengthen technical capability, and ensure consistent quality and timely delivery of work.
• Build effective working relationships with factories and regional and global teams, encouraging constructive challenge and shared problem-solving.

Yêu cầu

• 10+ years of progressive experience in footwear product costing, sourcing, or manufacturing, including at least 5 years leading teams or multi-factory costing programs. Experience with premium or luxury footwear is strongly preferred.
• Proven ownership of end-to-end footwear costing across development and production, including cost sheet governance, factory cost validation, and direct cost negotiations that support AUC and IMU targets.
• Demonstrated ability to build country, regional, and factory benchmarks; assess LOP by product type and factory; and negotiate tooling costs and amortization using sound commercial judgment.
• Deep technical knowledge of footwear materials, construction, pattern consumption and yield, production processes, labor, overhead, and cost modeling; able to challenge factory assumptions with evidence.
• Ability to interpret FX, commodity, trade, and labor trends, quantify their impact on product cost and margin, and recommend mitigation options in partnership with Finance and other accountable teams.
• Experience improving costing processes, data quality, and systems, including defining user requirements with IT or PLM partners and leading adoption across teams.
• Strong record of developing talent and influencing senior partners across PD, Technical, SCM, Finance, and global business teams.
• Advanced Excel and analytical skills, familiarity with PROCAM or comparable tools, and clear written and spoken English.

Yêu cầu ưu tiên

• Experience with premium or luxury footwear is strongly preferred.

Mức lương

• Thỏa thuận

Thông tin khác

• Location: Hải Phòng, Vietnam.
• Full-time position.