Engineer, Costing

About the role

The Costing Engineer develops costing operations and works with sourcing development and brand stakeholders to build best-in-class costing processes and seasonal development costing supporting hundreds of millions of dollars of product cost across several VF brands, products and countries. The role supports the modernization and standardization of costing through consistent, data-driven, automated and efficient processes, partnering with VF product sourcing teams and vendors in the country of manufacture. It suits someone with a strong product and manufacturing background who designs to cost to save money.

Key responsibilities

• Champion connectivity and information sharing across vendors and cross-functional stakeholders such as sourcing, brand, material and planning.
• Manage seasonal development costing milestones and activities.
• Negotiate with vendor partners using fact-based costing methodologies and product engineering to design to higher profitability.
• Work with development sourcing on vendor allocations, providing FOB and landed costing perspectives.
• Ensure costing process adherence by costing operations teams and vendors, and track and report key metrics.
• Lead and participate in cross-functional initiatives and analyses, delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
• Improve costing productivity and efficiency by removing redundancies, automating repetitive tasks and optimizing processes.
• Lead with a strong sense of performance, collaboration and partnership across the product supply organization.

Required profile

• Minimum 2 years of experience in industrial garment manufacturing, a buying office or a trading company.
• Ability to understand technical specifications, bills of materials and garment constructions; knowledge of fabric weaving, dyeing processes, embellishments (print, embroidery, quilting) and sweaters/accessories is a plus.
• Experience in business process improvement, change adoption, process redesign or reengineering.
• Strong negotiation, analytical and reasoning skills, and ability to influence and drive consensus.
• Oral and written fluency in English.

Required skills

• Digital and analytical mindset with a passion for efficiency and process innovation.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Good communication skills: diplomatic, open, a good listener, direct and succinct.