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:

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End-to-End Costing Delivery
- Own integral 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

📌 Manager, Costing (Asia)
🏢 VFCorporation
📍 Asia