Costing Engineer

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Costing Engineer optimizing footwear development costing, vendor negotiations, and sourcing strategies for VF brands. Driving data-based process improvements and product cost savings in Vietnam.

Responsibilities:

  • 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 sourcing strategies and vendor allocations
  • Ensure adherence to costing processes by costing operations teams and vendors
  • Track and report key metrics for performance, efficiency, and transparency
  • Drive performance, collaboration, and partnership 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
  • Support modernization and standardization of costing approaches using consistent, data-driven, automated, and efficient processes
  • Partner with sourcing, development, brand, product, and manufacturing stakeholders on design-to-cost and product cost savings

Requirements:

  • Minimum 2 years of experience in industrial footwear manufacturing, buying office, or trading company
  • Ability to understand technical specifications, Bill 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
  • Experience adopting change, business process redesign, or process reengineering
  • Strong negotiation, analytical, and reasoning skills
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint
  • Oral and written fluency in English
  • Ability to influence and drive consensus
  • Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment with multiple ongoing priorities
  • Demonstrated knowledge or interest in development costing processes/concepts and sourcing and allocation strategies
  • Proven success adopting change and transformation
  • Demonstrated leadership skills in a global matrix environment
  • Digital and analytical mindset with interest in efficiency and process innovation