Manager, Costing

Purpose

A key player in Global Sourcing in driving Sourcing’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Digitalized & Cleanest Supply Base in the industry. Manage costing performance of the Sourcing Liaison Offices (LO) through implementation of Sourcing Costing strategies, policies, process, systems and standards, assuring company go-in margin targets are met and optimizing landed costs through a clear understanding of economic trends and trade opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure execution of all standard costing processes within area of responsibilities, lead the relevant costing teams and the Tier 1 (T1) costing team in achieving the target Free On Board (FOB) goals within timeline/schedule setting as well as ensuring the implementation of adidas policies, procedures and costing strategies within the supply base.
• Train and assist Sourcing Operations teams and T1s in the understanding and application of cost drivers, costing frameworks and standards, policies and process, including application of consistent, accurate and transparent cost sheets.
• Collect relevant data and information for selected products, ranges or categories for projects as well as participating as a project member in projects.
• Execute costing audits and propose improvement areas with supplier partners.
• Facilitate compliance and improvement of global costing policies, procedures, and new systems by providing feedback to Sourcing Costing and Sourcing Operations.
• Facilitate cost-saving suggestion discussions with product creation teams, including proposals for yield efficiency and mold cavity improvements, as well as serving as the point of contact for surcharge escalations.
• Collaborate closely with Development, Materials and other key functions within the LO and respective factories to ensure products are developed to cost targets.
• Ensure all sourcing operations and practices comply with adidas’ Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policy, adidas standards and legal requirements.
• Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

Key Relationships

• Global Sourcing: Sourcing Operations, Costing
• Global Operations: Business Unit Costing Operations
• External stakeholders: Tier 1 Costing

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong understanding of product construction and manufacturing operations, specializing in product costing, product development, or production.
• Strong understanding of country, regional and global cost drivers and the end-to-end costing and sourcing process.
• Strong analytical and systematic approach to consolidating and communicating information.
• Good presentation, negotiation, influencing, people and communication skills.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills and ability to work with Product Data Management Systems.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• University degree or technical degree in apparel, footwear or manufacturing.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in the apparel and footwear industry with costing responsibility.

Culture

At adidas, employees are encouraged to demonstrate courage, ownership, innovation, teamplay, integrity and respect. adidas is committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion into its culture and talent processes.