Cost Engineer
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Costing Engineer optimizing footwear product costs for VF’s global brands. Leading vendor negotiations, costing governance, process improvements, and sourcing strategy support.
Responsibilities:
- Develop costing operations and seasonal development costing across VF brands, products, and countries
- Partner with sourcing, development, brand, product, material, and planning stakeholders and vendors
- Modernize and standardize costing approaches using consistent, data-driven, automated, and efficient processes
- Support product sourcing and development teams with design-to-cost initiatives and product cost savings
- Champion connectivity and seamless information sharing across vendors and cross-functional stakeholders
- Manage seasonal development costing milestones and activities
- Lead vendor negotiations using fact-based costing methodologies and product engineering to improve profitability
- Provide FOB and landed-cost perspectives to support vendor allocation and sourcing strategies
- Ensure adherence to costing processes among costing operations teams and vendors
- Track and report key metrics related to performance, efficiency, and transparency
- Demonstrate leadership and foster collaboration across the product supply organization
- Improve costing productivity and efficiency by eliminating redundancies, automating repetitive tasks, and optimizing processes
- Lead and participate in cross-functional initiatives and conduct analyses, producing deliverables in a fast-paced environment
Requirements:
- Minimum 2 years of experience in industrial footwear manufacturing, buying office, or trading company
- Ability to understand technical specifications, Bills of Materials, and footwear constructions
- Knowledge of fabric weaving, constructions, and different dyeing processes is a plus
- Knowledge of embellishments, including print techniques, embroidery, and quilting, is a plus
- Experience in sweater knits and accessories is an advantage
- Ability to influence and drive consensus
- Experience adopting change, business process redesign, or process reengineering
- Strong negotiation, analytical, and reasoning skills
- Eagerness to learn and adopt new methods, tools, and technologies
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint
- Good communication skills: diplomatic, open, good listener, direct, succinct
- Oral and written fluency in English
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