Lead, Footwear Costing

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Our pursuit of better begins with innovation and with our team's mission of being the best. With us, you get the freedom to go further - no matter your role. That means developing, delivering, and selling the state-of-the-art products and digital tools that make top performers even better.

 

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Purpose of Role

The Lead, Footwear Costing is responsible for maintaining current costing initiatives and supporting HQ and Asia costing leads to drive new and effective strategies to ensure UA is highly competitive in the marketplace.  This role will drive communication with Asia costing counterparts to effectively provide costing information with calendar timeline and partner with HQ development, engineer, and material team for costing suggestions. This role cooperates with product line manager to set up target FOB and ensure team follow the costing policy from product brief to final confirmation.

Your Impact

• Leads pre-costing from production brief to commercialization to ensure all costing requirements are met
• Work collaboratively cross functionally with Development, Marketing, Engineering, UA Sourcing/costing, and Factory Asian counterparts through product creation development process in order to maximize costing opportunities.
• Lead and coordinate costing reviews at critical millstones to ensure alignment between development, product line manager for target FOB achievement 
• Increase awareness and understanding for cost process within organization through effective communication and training if necessary.
• Ensure costing standards, policies and & practices are shared, followed accurately from start to finish while following established timelines and calendars.
• Embrace and support manufacturing excellence, concepts and successes across the Asia Footwear manufacturing platform
• Lead and cooperate with product line manager to set product cost targets
• Create margin report at each of milestone and analysis gaps. Ensure follow up with leaders, development and product line manager for any various vs target margin/FOBs.  
• Compile detailed product cost estimates including identification of cost drivers, very good understanding of various manufacturing processes 
• Facilitate and monitor Cost action plans and verify achievement of cost targets  
• Lead and support final product cost 
• Assist in the maintenance of a Centric BOM and CBD platform
• Assist in the continuous improvement and maintenance of a global cost engineering process  
   

Qualifications

• Knowledge of footwear development/costing make you an ideal candidate.
• Ability to work both independently and cooperatively with a diverse group of people.
• Strong financial expertise for managing/compiling/analyzing and communicating financial and costing related data
• Passion, passion and more passion for delivering quality footwear.  
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field. 
• 5+years of industry experience.
• Prior experience in the sports footwear industry and overseas manufacturing.
• Product costing experience
• Strong presentation skills
• Experience developing pricing strategies and an assortment mix that supports the Brand positioning
• Team Player Attitude
   

Workplace Location

• Location: This individual must reside within commuting distance from our Baltimore office.
• Return to Work Designation: 3 days week in-office, the remainder of work week remote. 

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