Manager, Costing Commercial Analysis

Purpose

A key player in Product Development & Sourcing (PD&S), driving PD&S’s vision to be the most agile, competitive, innovative, and sustainable PD&S organization in the industry. Champion data-driven insights, continuous improvement, and collaborative problem-solving to help achieve the company’s margin ambitions.

Key Responsibilities

• Track, analyse, and interpret product and operational cost performance; develop strategic pricing approaches and identify opportunities to enhance profitability and business value.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and margin leakage points, recommending strategies that improve financial performance and drive sustainable growth.
• Design, build, and maintain trackers, dashboards, and reporting tools that provide visibility into margin performance, cost variances, and actionable business insights.
• Partner with Business Units and Finance teams on seasonal target setting, scenario planning, and price forecasting.
• Facilitate discussions between Headquarters, Business Units, and regional teams, driving alignment on margin-critical initiatives.
• Analyse margin performance across key costing milestones, identifying variance drivers, trends, risks, and cost-optimization opportunities.
• Provide PD&S Costing Leadership with insights on margin developments, cost drivers, supplier pricing trends, and competitive benchmarking.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Liaison Offices and Headquarters.
• Challenge costing standards, processes, and policies to simplify, streamline, and improve ways of working.
• Ensure PD&S practices comply with Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policies, standards, and applicable legal requirements.
• Role model leadership and foster a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong understanding of the sourcing industry, with expertise in product costing, financial analysis, product development, manufacturing, or supply chain operations.
• Highly analytical, with strong problem-solving and solutions-oriented capabilities.
• Advanced ability to work with large and complex datasets and translate data into actionable recommendations.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Strong project management, change management, presentation, stakeholder management, negotiation, influencing, and communication skills.
• Strategic and critical thinker able to challenge the status quo and influence decisions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; experience with BI platforms, data visualization tools, and advanced analytics solutions is an advantage.

Requisite Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, data analytics, supply chain management, business administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience in a multinational environment, including consulting, commercial finance, product costing, project management, fashion, sourcing, manufacturing, or supply chain management.
• Experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders, driving business performance through analytics, and leading initiatives with commercial impact.
• Experience working across global and regional teams.

Culture

adidas fosters an athlete’s mindset through courage, ownership, innovation, teamplay, integrity, and respect, with a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.