[Hiring] Analyst, Costing @VF Corporation

Role Description

The Engineer, costing will be responsible for development costing operations, partnering with sourcing development and brand stakeholders to drive best in class costing processes and seasonal development costing that support 100’s of millions of dollars’ worth in product cost across several VF brands, products, and countries. This individual will support modernization and standardization of costing approaches utilizing consistent data-driven, automated, and efficient processes in partnership with VF product sourcing teams and Vendors in the country of manufacturing.

This individual will bring a strong product and manufacturing background and will work closely with the product sourcing and development teams on designing to cost to achieve product cost savings for the organization. This individual will fully leverage “One VF” scale through the use of harmonized and scalable fact-based costing methodologies and will play an important role in the development sourcing organization with an extensive focus on development costing optimization.

Responsibilities

• Champion connectivity and seamless information sharing across vendors and cross-functional stakeholders within sourcing, brand, material, and planning organizations.
• Manage seasonal development costing milestones and activities.
• Lead negotiation with vendor partners utilizing insights and fact-based costing methodologies as well as product engineering to design to higher profitability.
• Work closely with development sourcing on vendor allocations by providing FOB & Landed costing perspectives to support sourcing strategies.
• Ensure costing process adherence by costing operations teams as well as vendors.
• Track and report on key metrics to ensure established processes are fully aligned with the performance, efficiency, and transparency needs of the costing organization.
• Demonstrate strong leadership by ensuring the best standards of performance, collaboration, and partnership across the product supply organization.
• Achieve improvements in costing activity productivity and efficiency through eliminating redundancies, automating repetitive tasks, and optimizing processes for maximum value.
• Lead and participate in various cross-functional initiatives and conduct specific analyses as needed producing deliverables in a diverse, fast-paced environment through extensive collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Consistently demonstrates an attitude of extreme accountability.
• Proactively brings teams together to resolve issues and acts as a connector between business areas.
• Effectively partners with key internal/external stakeholders and team members.
• Demonstrated knowledge and genuine interest in further development in development costing processes/concepts and sourcing and allocation strategies.
• Proven success in adopting change and transformation.
• Experience in business process improvements desired.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in a global matrix environment including strategic and innovative thinking.
• Digital and analytical mindset with a passion for efficiency and process innovation.
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment with multiple ongoing priorities.

Requirements

• Min 2 years of experience in industrial garment manufacturing/buying office/trading company required.
• Ability to understand technical specifications, Bill of Materials, and garment constructions.
• Knowledge in fabric weaving, constructions, and different dyeing processes will be a plus.
• Knowledge in different embellishments, e.g., print techniques, embroidery, quilting will be a plus.
• Experience in sweater knits and accessories will be an advantage.
• Ability to influence and drive consensus.
• Experience in adopting change, business process redesign, or process reengineering.
• Strong negotiations, analytical, and reasoning skills.
• Eager to learn and adopt new methods, tools, and technologies.
• Strong in Microsoft Office – especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Good communication skills: diplomatic, open, good listener, direct, succinct.
• Oral and written fluency in English.