Manager, Costing

ABOUT YOUR ROLE

Acts as the global functional focal point for apparel costing, driving enterprise standards, influencing strategic sourcing decisions, and enabling margin delivery across the product creation lifecycle.

Leads end-to-end costing execution across a global sourcing portfolio, ensuring cost accuracy, transparency, and alignment to brand margin targets.

Owns global costing delivery by embedding enterprise costing standards into disciplined regional execution, enabled through active leadership, development, and coaching of Senior Costing Engineers within key manufacturing regions.

Partners cross-functionally with Sourcing Development, Engineering, Product Supply Enablement (PSE), Brand Planning, Product Development, Design & merch to drive margin optimization, strengthen cost discipline, and enable fact-based, data-driven decision making across the organization.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Costing Manager will act as central connector across Finance, PSE and Brand to establish and develop end-to-end product cost governance. This includes:

1. End-to-End Costing Delivery

Own global FOB validation, consolidation, and submission across all GTM milestones

Ensure costing accuracy, completeness, and alignment to margin targets

Provide structured visibility of FOB evolution, risks, and variance to enable decision making

Maintain discipline in milestone tracking, forecast accuracy, and buy readiness

2. Cost Governance & Standards Execution

Implement and enforce global costing standards, frameworks, and processes across regions

Ensure consistency in costing methodologies, assumptions, and tools

Own governance of cost changes, exceptions, and approval processes

Drive transparency and accountability in costing outcomes

3. Regional Costing Leadership

Lead regional costing execution through Senior Costing Engineers in key sourcing countries (e.g., Vietnam, Bangladesh)

Set clear expectations, monitor performance, and ensure delivery against timelines and targets

Drive alignment of regional execution to global costing strategy and operating model

Identify and escalate risks impacting cost performance or GTM readiness

4. Cost Optimization & Commercial Impact

Lead vendor-facing cost negotiations and cost engineering initiatives

Identify opportunities across materials, construction, and manufacturing efficiency to improve margins

Partner with Engineering, Sourcing, and Product teams to balance cost, quality, and product intent

Support sourcing allocation decisions through cost competitiveness insights

5. Cross-Functional Partnership

Partner with Product Development, Merchandising, Sourcing, PSE, and Finance to align on cost targets and margin delivery

Provide insights on economic trends, cost drivers, trade impacts, and regional dynamics to inform decision making

Contribute to integrated planning and cost projection discussions

6. Reporting & Insights

Lead structured costing communication at key GTM milestones

Consolidate regional inputs into clear, actionable global insights

Highlight risks, opportunities, and recommended actions to stakeholders

7. Capability Building

Build costing capability across regions through coaching and guidance of Sr Costing Engineers

Develop team discipline in:

Costing fundamentals

Analytical rigor

Stakeholder communication

COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS

Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect product costs, sourcing strategies, margin performance, and business outcomes.

Demonstrated analytical thinking and problem-solving capability, with the ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations.

Proven ability to influence and build alignment across cross-functional stakeholders in a complex, matrixed environment.

Strong leadership capability with experience coaching, developing, and leading teams while driving accountability and continuous improvement.

Results-oriented with a strong ownership mindset and ability to deliver in a fast-paced, milestone-driven environment.

Effective communicator with the ability to simplify complex topics and influence decision-making through clear insights and business storytelling.

Proven change agent with the ability to drive process standardization, governance, and adoption of new ways of working.

Digital and continuous improvement mindset with a passion for leveraging data, systems, and technology to improve performance.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Textile Engineering, Apparel Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field.

6+ years of experience in apparel sourcing, manufacturing, product costing, cost engineering, or supply chain operations, including multi-country sourcing environments.

Strong expertise in apparel costing, garment construction, manufacturing processes, material cost drivers, and vendor economics.

Proven track record of delivering cost optimization, cost engineering, and vendor negotiation initiatives that improve margin performance.

Strong understanding of FOB development, cost forecasting, margin management, and costing governance processes.

Advanced analytical and financial modeling capabilities, including proficiency in Excel and costing tools.

Knowledge of global sourcing dynamics, trade regulations, tariffs, and regional manufacturing competitiveness.

Experience working in a global matrix organization with cross-functional stakeholder management responsibilities.

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