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 integral 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
- 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 elevate risks impacting cost performanc

📌 Manager, Costing (Asia)
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📍 Asia