Job Description

Role & Responsibilities:

ABOUT YOUR ROLE:

The Senior Manager, Costing Strategy drives Product supply's strategic cost management initiatives to optimize product value. This leader innovates and scales costing intelligence across VF brands into actionable negotiation levers, sourcing decisions and product development insights. This leader influences key brand partners in product development, finance and merchandizing, presenting and tracking supply chain related financial outcomes. The individual will partner closely with Sourcing teams, Product and Material Suppliers to actively maintain factual and collaborative industry costing practices and frameworks

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

Include but not limited to

Cost Guidance: Manage a team of costing analyst to set fact based negotiation targets for sourcing teams. Translate forward looking costing insights into actionable decisions to maximize product value*
Product Cost Standards: Working together with costing engineering and analytics teams, develop and maintain product cost standards for VF products, track adherence to standards*
Costing Excellence: Serve as point of contact for cost savings initiatives; working across VF brands and suppliers to ideate, implement and scale product cost and landed optimization opportunities*
Connectivity: Support connectivity and information sharing among Brand stakeholders, Sourcing, Finance, and Suppliers that enables and scales valuable One-VF Global Costing Strategy.*
Team: Build, develop and motivate the Costing Strategy team through strong leadership and ensure the best standards of performance. Identify and develop talent to ensure appropriate skill sets and strong succession plans are in place.*
Process Improvements: Achieve improvements in productivity and efficiency through eliminating redundancies, automating repetitive tasks and optimizing processes for maximum value.*
Project Leadership: Lead cross-functional initiatives and conduct specific analyses as needed producing deliverables in a diverse, fast paced environment through extensive collaboration across teams*
Travel: 10%*

WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:

Experience in corporate and/or supply chain strategy required*
Knowledge of procurement and/or cost management preferred*
Experience in leading transformation*
Ability to influence and drive consensus*
Strong analytical and reasoning skills*
Strong in organization development and administration*
Good commercial acumen*
Good communication skills: diplomatic, open, good listener, direct, succinct*